Medical Chaos And Crime

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Excerpt from Medical Chaos and Crime This book is mainly an exposure of the abuses that exist in the medical profession in this country, abuses that not only degrade the practice of medicine, but contribute not a little to the physical and moral deterioration of the American people. It would be futile to attempt to estimate the amount of human suffering caused by the ignorance, incompetence, commercialism, and criminal indifference of those who call themselves disciples of Æsculapius, but the evil may at least be pointed out and denounced, and this I have done. I presume that the result will be accounted sensational, although I have scrupulously striven to avoid any exaggeration, and have endeavored to present both sides of every question discussed. I have dealt rather briefly with what is known to the general public as medicine proper, that is, internal medicine, while surgery, gynecology and obstetrics occupy eight chapters, and repeatedly recur in nearly every other chapter in the book. This was not my original intention, but it happened that the surgical chapters were written first, and so overran the space I had allotted to drugs. I hope that time and circumstances will permit the preparation of a supplementary volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Dr Harold Shipman told his unsuspecting patients he was conducting blood tests as he injected them with a massive dose of heroin; they were dead within minutes. Before his trial, many assumed he was an over-zealous GP who went too far in providing comfort to dying patients. In the end, he was found guilty of deliberately and coldly murdering 218 of his patients. But although Britain's worst serial killer, he is far from alone. Doctors have power over both life and death, and this shocking and grisly book reveals terrifying cases of those who exploit this to meet their twisted pathological needs, including: * Dr Harry Bailey, a psychiatrist who dispatched more than 20 patients using Deep Sleep Therapy * Dr Radovan Karadizic, the psychiatrist who led the genocide during the Bosnian War * Dr William Palmer, who poisoned his victims for insurance money Kaplan analyses the chilling paradox of why these trusted practitioners spent years learning how to preserve life, only to turn their focus on how to end it.

"An intriguing collection of thirteen true-crime tales from the medical world, featuring the wife-murdering Dr J. Milton Bowers, notorious poisoner Dr William Palmer, mass murderer Dr Marcel Petiot and the deadly goings on at a private nursing home in Nottingham." -- Back cover.