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Cargando... The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murderpor Charles Graeber
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book, extensively well researched, tells the story of Charlie Cullen, a nurse who worked in many hospitals and ultimately was responsible for hundreds of patient deaths. The book is a fascinating read, one that will stick with you for a while. It really made me wonder just how vulnerable one is when they go to a hospital. How many other Charlies are out there? The story is absolutely terrifying. After reading the book, I am afraid to go into a hospital. I know that is irrational, but that is how realistic and frightening the book is. The book details how Cullen injected drugs into the IV bags and ports to kill the patients. When terminated from one hospital, he simply moved on to another hospital and continued moving from one hospital to another. Many of the hospitals suspected he was responsible for the sudden spike in patient deaths, but for fear of their reputation they refused to divulge this information when his next potential employer called them for references. The hospitals also failed to notify authorities for fear of their reputation taking a hit. Hospitals need patients and potential patients might go elsewhere if a hospital has a history of many unusual and frequent deaths. As a result, the hospitals were complicit in the patient deaths. Hospitals were in such dire need of nurses, many failed to properly check out his past references, or turned a blind eye when some of his dates of employment failed to match up. The book details how police detectives were able to take a case based solely on circumstantial evidence and secure a confession out of Cullen. If you love to read true crime or just want to read an excellent story detailing the crime and the arrest of Charlie Cullen, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Holy…what the fuck…wow. That book was intense, and baffling. It was very good, but I need more! Why did he do it, was he just that insane? How did the hospitals and workers not get punished in the least? Withholding evidence, covering up multiple murders, how?! Being from New Jersey and Pennsylvania, how have I not heard of this earlier? Absolutely insane! I expected more from this book. While the story itself is fascinating, I found the writing tedious and forced, especially in the beginning of the book. The writer took too much time to build his case for why Charlie Cullen was doing the things he did. It was just difficult to read. It wasn't until the detectives got involved that the story started to read in a compelling way. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. When, in March of 2006, Charles Cullen was marched from his final sentencing in an Allentown, Pennsylvania, courthouse into a waiting police van, it seemed certain that the chilling secrets of his life, career, and capture would disappear with him. Now, in this piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years in the making, the author, a journalist presents the whole story for the first time. Based on hundreds of pages of previously unseen police records, interviews, wire-tap recordings and videotapes, as well as exclusive jailhouse conversations with Cullen himself and the confidential informant who helped bring him down, this book weaves an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship, and betrayal. The author's portrait of Cullen depicts a surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill, and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life hidden even to his family and friends. Were it not for the work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her children, there's no telling how many more lives could have been lost. This work does more than chronicle Cullen's deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers a penetrating look inside America's medical system. This book will make you look at medicine, hospitals, and the people who work in them, in an entirely different way. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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