The healer /
Leonard Levitt
- New York : The Viking Press, c1980
- x, 253 pages ; 23 cm.
On June 18, 1975, Dr. Charles Friedgood got into bed with his wife and slept soundly by her side...after injecting her with a fatal dose of Demerol. Handsome, charming and kindly, Friedgood was loved by his wife, his mistress, his children by both women, and his patients. But his life was one long string of lies, criminal deception -- and worse. He cheated his way through medical school, was dismissed from one hospital after another, performed surgical butchery on trusting patients, and was indicted for manslaughter.