Bad medicine : catching New York's deadliest pill pusher
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria Books, 2021.
Physical Description
xii, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"The shocking story of New York's most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down in a landmark and precedent-setting case in the fight against opioid addiction" --
"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." -- inside front jacket flap.
Contents
- The one to start with
- Sick little body
- One of the good ones
- Three years, eight months, two days
- Who's with me?
- The fruits of our labor
- Soft targets
- Modern medicine
- Hope in a bottle
- Civil war
- The gatekeepers
- Fireworks
- The Kougasian rule
- Angel
- May it please the court
- Sorry for the loss
- Epilogue.