Tom Mueller
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How did a lifesaving medical breakthrough become a for-profit enterprise that threatens many of the people it’s meant to save? Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs and Beltway lobbyists soon turned...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy." -- New York Times-bestselling author Wendell Potter. "Fascinating...'Unauthorized disclosures' by whistleblowers are the lifeblood of a republic." --Daniel Ellsberg. A David-and-Goliath story for our times: the riveting account of the heroes who are fighting a rising tide of wrongdoing by the powerful, and showing us the path forward. We...