Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex by Mike Magee (2019)

Ex-library Hardcover with DJ in Good (G) condition. Light library markings. DJ wrapped in protective cover. Clean and straight. Amazing condition! A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to a local library.  "Code Blue" is the phrase customarily announced over hospital public address systems to alert staff to an urgent medical emergency requiring immediate attention. How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country--such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"? Mike Magee, M.D., who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Complex administering a hospital and then as a senior executive at the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has spent the last decade deconstructing the complex, often shocking rise of, and con