TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 616 LP - 616 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X706937 VL - 69 IS - 689 AU - Elizabeth Dapre Y1 - 2019/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/689/616.1.abstract N2 - John Carreyrou Picador, 2019, PB, 320pp, £9.99, 978-1509868087A chilling account of one woman’s mission to become a self-made billionaire, Bad Blood is an exceptional demonstration of courageous journalism by John Carreyrou. Elizabeth Holmes was named by Forbes magazine as the youngest self-made female billionaire in the US after her company, Theranos, was valued at $9 billion in 2014. Carreyrou paints a disturbing image of Holmes’s desire to attain financial success above all else: a Stanford drop-out, … ER -