The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1538760975 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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The causes of his pathology are not interesting. From a long series of conversations with Cullen, the detectives who solved the case and Amy, a nurse who once was Cullen's best friend and eventually got him to confess, among many other sources, Graeber has crafted a book that is a revelation. But the eagerness of ambitious hospital administrators to cover up his misdeeds is revelatory. It is also one of the most thoughtful. And the police investigation that brought him down is a thriller in every sense of that word."Janet Maslin, New York Times
Charles Graeber is an award winning journalist and contributor to numerous publications including Wired, GQ, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Vogue, Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Travel + Leisure, and The New York Times, and an occasional guest on CNN, NPR, and other radio programs. . For more information, you can visit Char
"nursing at its worst" according to Jennifer S. Being an RN who went to Mountainside School of Nursing I am sickened by Charles Cullen. This book is well written and shows how the hospital administration is more concerned about their image than the safety of their patients. I found this book very easy to navigate on the kindle. It was no problem going back and forth to read the footnotes. All I did was hit the back button. I couldn't put the book down. You do not have to be in the medical field to follow this book. I never leave my family's side when they are hospitalized and this book reinforces my reasons why. Always ask what the medication is . Review from a nurse Somebody's Nurse When I first heard about this book on NPR, and heard the author interviewed, I was angry. I am a nurse myself, one who works toward empowering others and advocating for the empowerment of nurses. What made me most angry was the title of the book, "The Good Nurse", when clearly the book's topic is far from describing a good, competent, caring, ethical nurse. So I opted not to read the book, and then somehow stumbled across the book again, a year after the big publicity push for the release of the book, and decided to give it a read. After all, in order to move beyond and heal from events such as desc. Riveting - Could Not Put Down As a nurse starting after this case was concluded, I started reading it with the knowledge of current (2016) standards of patient privacy, medicine access, and Texas nursing peer review law. Looking at it from that standpoint, the hospitals seem malicious in their negligence and was horrified at the sequence of events. Then, I remembered that nursing practice law is dictated by each state, and even if the Texas reporting structure was in place at the time, it wouldn't necessarily apply to Pennsylvania and New Jersey.For those completely horrified of hospitals, several changes were made based on this
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. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. 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. Were it not for the hardboiled, unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a fellow nurse willin