This is a thrilling and scary true story of Dr. Michael Swango. He seems like a smart and charming doctor—but this doctor uses his talent not to heal, but to harm and even kill!

This story gets under your skin and stays there. Even though his patients kept dying, he was able to move from hospital to hospital, even hospitals out of the country, without being stopped.

On the surface, he seemed to be an ordinary person working hard to make a successful life. But once you get to know his actions, you realize he has always had unsettling behavior,

What surprised me the most was that even while he was under supervision, Michael Swamgo (he doesn't deserve the credentials: Doctor), was able to get away with harming and killing, while the institutions continued to look away, and pass on the 'problem' to other institutions. It can't help but to make one angry about the number of warning signs blatantly ignored.

James Stewart does a wonderful job putting everything together; his research is thorough. He writes with empathy for the victims and their families. But he never loses sight of the bigger issues—the cracks in our medical and legal system that allowed Swango to keep practicing.

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Stewart dives deep into the bureaucratic side of the story: hospital practices and legal procedures, which slowed down the pacing somewhat.

Stay more vigilant over my and my loved ones' health care workers

A little creeped out, more alert of healthcare workers, and angry

James B. Stewart is the author of Heart of a Soldier, the bestselling Blind Eye and Blood Sport, and the blockbuster Den of Thieves. A former Page-One editor at The Wall Street Journal, Stewart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. He is a regular contributor to SmartMoney and The New Yorker. He lives in New York.

Published June 15, 2000
336 Pages
#520 in Serial Killers True Accounts
#811 in Criminology (Books)

323 Words

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