Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous Doctors

by Ian Schott (Author), R.M. Youngson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $4.19

  This is a collection of stories about medical blunders in the past and in modern life. The stories are of acts of arrogance, ignorance, cruelty and stupidity. They include tales of: a labotomy without anaesthetic, female mutilation, secret experiments on criminals, the insane and cancer patients, sex-changes, the doctors who become surgery addicts, wonder drugs with nightmare side-effects, the euthanasia experts, and chloroform orgasms.