White Coat, Black Hat Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine

“Beneath the white coats and sterile labs of the great American heath care system, Carl Elliott finds a drug-addled, gang-run, con game—sometimes bizarre, often hilarious. The noble arc that runs from Hippocrates to Sherwin Nuland washes out in a 'business model' apparently inspired by Timothy Leary, John Gotti and that infomercial pitch guy for ShamWow.” --Jack Hitt, contributing editor for This American Life and author of Off the Road.