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A review by mlweih
Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher by Charlotte Bismuth
informative
tense
slow-paced
3.0
I had hopes for this book to provide some “on the ground” context to the opioid epidemic, and how our US legal system is addressing it. When the author focused on the legal process, the book excelled. She is clearly skilled at analyzing, condensing, and presenting mounds of obtuse data in a comprehensible way.
However, the author struggles to describe the emotional components of her, and the patients stories. The emotions are clearly there, but her ability to write about psychology, mental health, and feelings is limited. This book would be much stronger if she did what was encouraged at jury trial- present the case, and let the readers form their own emotional conclusions.
However, the author struggles to describe the emotional components of her, and the patients stories. The emotions are clearly there, but her ability to write about psychology, mental health, and feelings is limited. This book would be much stronger if she did what was encouraged at jury trial- present the case, and let the readers form their own emotional conclusions.