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    Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher
    Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher
    Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher
    Audiobook13 hours

    Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher

    Written by Charlotte Bismuth

    Narrated by Samantha Desz

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    “Charlotte Bismuth gives us a bold and cinematic true crime story about her work at the intersection of medicine and greed. Bad Medicine is a gripping memoir that toggles deftly between the personal and prosecutorial.” —Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick

    “Bismuth has written a brilliant account of prosecuting a doctor who became a drug dealer in a white coat. She is haunted by the voices of the dead and listening closely to the voices of the living.” —Nan Goldin, artist, activist, and founder of P.A.I.N.

    “Bad Medicine is a taut exploration of America’s deadly battle with opioid addiction—an unnerving and inspirational firecracker of a book.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park

    For fans of Dopesick and Bad Blood, the shocking story of New York’s most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down.

    In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li’s corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and Xanax, trading prescriptions for cash. Emergency room doctors, psychiatrists, and desperate family members warned him that his patients were at risk of death but he would not stop.

    In Bad Medicine, former prosecutor Charlotte Bismuth meticulously recounts the jaw dropping details of this criminal case that would span four years, culminating in a landmark trial. As a new assistant district attorney and single mother, Bismuth worked tirelessly with her team to bring Dr. Li to justice. Bad Medicine is a chilling story of corruption and greed and an important look at the role individual doctors play in America’s opioid epidemic.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 19, 2021
    ISBN9781797109886
    Author

    Charlotte Bismuth

    Charlotte Bismuth started her legal career at the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, and joined the New York County District Attorney’s Office in 2008 as an appellate attorney. In 2010, she transferred into the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, which prosecutes felony narcotics crimes within the City’s five boroughs. She is a graduate of Columbia University, Columbia Law School, and the Instituts d’etudes politiques in Paris. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.

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    • 5/5
      This book was surprisingly captivating, given the author’s own description of the trial proceedings as being mind-numbing. I felt the frustration, fear, anger, disgust, and uncertainty of both her professional experiences and some of her personal ones too. I liked the format of jumping back and forth in time to give us better context for the events leading up to the doctor’s arrest. As someone who spent years of my young adulthood with an opioid addicted father, I found the story to be especially heartbreaking. Great book. Oh, and the narration was excellent as well!

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    • 3/5
      I liked the content of the case. I really disliked the author’s interjection of her personal life…not to be rude but I just didn’t care and didn’t think it was pertinent, so I found myself skipping over those sections. The constant so many days before the trial, after the trial, since the trial, amidst the trial, etc. was annoying and distracting. I also didn’t finish the last couple of chapters because once I knew the details of the verdict the book was done. Overall the book could have been much better organized. I was glad for the info though and would have liked more about the opioid encounters and stats.
    • 3/5
      Good book, the court proceedings were interesting to hear and so were the stories of the addicts but there was a lot of filler regarding the authors personal life with depression, divorce and children that seemed to drag on and on, it was too much story that I just didn't care to hear about since it had nothing to do with the doctor or the case, felt like the author was just trying to fill the pages with words