How Hospice Companies Put Profits Over Patients: An Investigation Into The Business Of Dying
How hospice became big business. A new investigation in The New Yorker reveals an industry that at times puts profits before patients.
Author Ian McEwan at the PEN World Voices Festival, 2008
A novel from best-selling author, Ian McEwan, about a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident. How he uses the opportunity to extricate himself from a failing marriage, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster.
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- Ian McEwan Author of 10 novels including the Booker-prize winning "Amsterdam" and "Atonement."
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