The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781619699366 (1619699362)
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Book Club,
Adult,
Mystery,
Health,
Medical,
Crime,
True Crime,
Psychology,
Medicine
Oh, that was fast. Twenty minutes into this 11 and a half hour audiobook and I'm DNFing it. My breaking point? The description of children in a burn ward as [spoiler] "screaming, melted little people" that surgeons would later "open [...] like a baked potato." [/spoiler] Judging by a review I read, ...
This was a good true crime read. Solid narrative, interesting investigation, and a really interesting case. I had never heard of him before so it was fascinating to learn about him. The writing style was a little too fiction-like for my tastes. Like, it read more like a mystery than an actual true c...
The first half was much better than the second. The dialogue in the second half suffered because it was taken verbatim from taped transcripts between investigators, hospital staff, and detectives. While I understand the author's decision to use the actual conversations, I feel it would have been bet...
While the first third or so of the Charlie Cullen story read like a typical true crime retrospective, as the story unravelled, I found this book to be a surprisingly interesting case study of both individual and institutional morality. Cullen's actions defy any "normal" expectations for this type of...
3.5/5Working in healthcare this story didn't surprise me. I can't believe there isn't more Charlie Cullens. I was already somewhat familiar with this story. I will say that the writing in this book was somewhat dry. There was a lot of medical/pharmaceutical terminology in the book so that did drag i...
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