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Blind Eye
The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder  
By James B. Stewart
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No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired -- in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota -- Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his patients began dying under suspicious circumstances.

At once a gripping read and a hard-hitting look at the inner workings of the American medical system, Blind Eye describes a professional hierarchy where doctors repeatedly accept the word of fellow physicians over that of nurses, hospital employees, and patients -- even as horrible truths begin to emerge. With the prodigious investigative reporting that has defined his Pulitzer Prize-winning career, James B. Stewart has tracked down survivors, relatives of victims, and shaken coworkers to unearth the evidence that may finally lead to Swango's conviction.

Combining meticulous research with spellbinding prose, Stewart has written a shocking chronicle of a psychopathic doctor and of the medical establishment that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.

Lance Morrow The New York Times Book Review Chillingly thorough....Wonderfully done....An elaborate journalistic reconstruction that has the fascination of an acutely observed and troubling novel.
Scott McLemee Newsday A remarkable piece of reporting.
Jerome E. Groopman The Wall Street Journal Stewart tells a riveting tale of terror, a true page-turner.
Joan O'C. Hamilton, Business Week Blind Eye is a flat-out horrifying nonfiction profile of Michael Swango...Stewart is an excellent writer and reporter...This is a brave and passionate book.
Ellen Clegg The Boston Globe Stewart penetrates the hermetically sealed world of medicine. In the process, he exposes the arrogance and the fraudulent professional courtesies that allowed Swango to move ahead unchallenged. In other words, Stewart does the work that hospital administrators and supervising physicians in Ohio, South Dakota, and New York should have done.
Dr. Robert B. Daroff The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Swango's odyssey is so compelling that I became riveted. I needed to know when and how he would be caught, and what ultimately happened to him.
Steve Twedt Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Stewart has produced an extraordinary book.
R. Z. Sheppard Time magazine James B. Stewart's Blind Eye is a persuasive case against Dr. Michael Swango.
Steve Weinberg Chicago Tribune The facts gathered by Stewart are compelling. [He]...persuasively dissects the medical establishment.
Joseph Nocera Fortune Is Blind Eye worth reading? Yes, Jim Stewart's books always are.
Ray LockerThe Tampa TribuneStewart tells a story that both grips and enrages...Throughout Blind Eye, [he] shows how the medical establishment took the path of least resistance when it came to Swango. They didn't want to know.
Dale SingerSt. Louis Post-DispatchIf Swango is guilty -- and author James B. Stewart builds a persuasive case against him
-- Stewart also makes a strong argument that he must share responsibility with a medical establishment that let him move freely from state to state, from hospital to hospital, without warning or punishment.
Kirkus ReviewsBest-selling author Stewart brings us inside the life of a killer who thrived in a medical establishment where doctors typically cover up for other doctors, where hospital administrators live in constant fear of litigation, and where regulatory agencies don't share crucial information...Stewart writes skillfully.
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