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Over the past sixty years, businesses and government have increasingly offloaded financial risk onto US households. The toll has pushed tens of millions of people to the financial breaking point, worsened social inequity, and jeopardized US democracy. In Sharing Risk, consumer advocate and scholar Patricia A. McCoy draws on the nation’s traditions of risk sharing to argue that society should lift up families by pooling and spreading the financial risks that they now must bear alone.

Justin Tensington, a surgical technician, has been stealing Fentanyl and replacing the liquid with saline, compromising patients’ lives with the contaminated vials. An investigation into hospital-wide drug tampering and patient deaths caused by blood-borne pathogens, zeroes in on the surgery employee. Fears that the police might also link him to the attack on Allison and an attempt on Mark’s life force Tensington to flee.