Blind eye how the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder book. New york, south dakota michael swango at first seemed the model physician. The terrifying story of a doctor who got away with murder book online at best prices in india on. He was fascinated by nazism, the holocaust, and serial and mass killers such. The truly frightening aspect of blind eye is not the relentless chain of murders, but the ease with which swango was able to repeatedly slip through the cracks in the medical system, simply by lying about. Stewart, who reports on a number of peculiar details in swangos life and early medical career.
Blind eye is wonderfully done as if the best of ida tarbell had been crossed with the early joyce carol oates. Joseph michael swango is a serial killer who, as a trusted doctor, had easy access to his victims. We do not publish short story collections, poetry, erotica, horror or nonfiction. How the medical establishment let a doctor get away with. Much attention has been paid in recent months to the story of michael swango. Hamilton, business week stewart penetrates the hermetically sealed world of medicine. Today the fbi believes that swango may be the most prolific serial killer in american history. Michael swango biography facts, childhood, life of. The fbi believes he may be responsible for as many as sixty deaths, which would make him one of the most prolific serial killers in american history. Michael swango and how he continued to practice medicine all over the country. Then his patients began dying under suspicious circumstances. Michael swango, who, despite being a convicted felon suspected of murdering dozens of his patients, was allowed to practice medicine.
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That a blind eye could have been turned to swangos persona and record is remarkable and somewhat chilling. Stewart a quincy native estimated that counting the suspicious deaths at siu, circumstantial evidence links swango to 35. Read blind eye the terrifying story of a doctor who got away with by james b. A medical thriller from pulitzer prizewinning author james b. In blind eye, a book that lays the foundation for an indictment against medicine, james b. Michael swango was responsible for the fatal poisoning of roughly 60 patients, placing him among the most prolific serial killers in american history, but his crimes are not. Stewart estimated that counting the suspicious deaths at siu, circumstantial evidence links swango to thirtyfive suspicious deaths. Stewarts, blind eye, is a true book on how a young doctor, michael swango, poisoned and murdered patients and coworkers. Stewart about serial killer doctor michael swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal. Michael swango seemed a godsend wherever he was hired to practice medicine.
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