Prescription For Death

By Barry Friedman
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Published: March 30, 2011
Words: 71,387 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458028730

Short description

Stuart Downing, a young physician, is up against a devious lawyer, unscrupulous doctors, crooked insurance agents, and killers who have devised a scheme to defraud insurance companies, Their method consists of altering electrocardiograms to fake heart attacks. Downing must match his ingenuity against that of the scammers with an unimaginable threat lurking at his every move.

Extended description

A gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering electrocardiograms. The setting is 1931 when electrocardiography was a relatively new diagnostic tool.
Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects the scheme, but digging out the evidence proves a deadly pursuit. Downing is up against a a devious lawyer, unscrupulous doctors, crooked insurance agents, and killers.
Downing must match his ingenuity against that of the scammers with an unimaginable threat lurking at his every move.

Tags

thriller, suspense, murder, medical, abortion, heart attack, cardiac, electrocardology, ekg, myocardial occlusion

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Review by: Gordon Tatler on Oct. 13, 2012 : (no rating)
I came across this book after my Doctor had problems with my EKG (ECG ad it is called in the UK) and could not resist reading it. Although set in 1930's America I found it a fabulously good read right from page one, and I just could not put it down until I finished it. Absolutely fascinating early analysis of EKG's, and a good, fast moving tale. Great stuff. Really is a brilliant book.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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