BOOK SUMMARY
by Dwight David Johnson
What if the language of care was just a script?
What if consent was framed, not informed?
What if the treatments meant to save your life… were designed to serve something else?
Stage IV Capitalism is not just a memoir. It’s a reckoning.
Told through the story of Dara Lemoine Johnson — patient, educator, and unwilling subject of a seven-year diagnostic failure — this book exposes what happens when healthcare becomes an industry, and patients become data points.
It combines lived experience with original evidence: policy documents, case files, malpractice laws, drug studies, and systemic incentives that quietly shape care.
What You’ll Find Inside
A first-person account of how misdiagnosis and omission reshaped a life
16 appendices of supporting documentation — from pathology reports to policy statutes
Doublespeak decoded: how medical framing rewrites your choices
A call to reform, not just awareness
You’ll never hear the words “standard of care” the same way again.
What Early Readers Are Saying
— “This isn’t a cancer memoir. It’s a whistleblowing memoir.”
— “Every patient needs to read this before their first appointment.”
— “Devastating. Documented. Urgent.”
Preorder Now & Get Bonus Materials
Includes downloadable tools to decode medical framing
Preorder and receive:
Consent Decoder (PDF card)
Doublespeak Glossary
“Case Files at a Glance” Toolkit
Who This Book Is For
Patients navigating complex diagnoses
Caregivers seeking clarity
Health professionals willing to listen
Advocates, ethicists, and reformers
Anyone who’s ever asked: “Wait, did they just say that?”