Medical Treason - Softcover

Joyce E. Strom-Paikin RN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425132358 ISBN 13: 9780425132357

Publisher: Berkley, 1992

The true story of addiction, crime, and corruption in the medical profession reveals such atrocities as drug-addicted doctors performing surgery, nurses who steal drugs and leave patients unmedicated, and more. Reprint.

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From Library Journal:

This is an exciting first-person account of a young nurse's involvement in countering the underground drug trade in a large urban hospital. In addition to coping with her own insecurities on the job, Strom-Paikin became aware of this drug trade and, ultimately, acted as an undercover agent for the local police, aiding in the gathering of evidence against the hospital staff involved. Along the way, Strom-Paikin recognized her own frailities and needs and made the momentous decision to leave hospital nursing. She has gone on to receive certification as a psychiatric nurse clinician, and, in her home state of New Jersey, has seen the start of support groups for hospital professionals with drug addictions. This will make an important addition to high school, public, and nursing school libraries. Highly recommended.
- Erna Chamberlain, SUNY at Albany Libs.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a composite of actual experiences, the story of medical personnel impaired by drug abuse is told in lackluster, plodding prose by a nurse who became embroiled in a dangerous entrapment scenario in an unidentified urban hospital. Strom-Paikin, now in private practice in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., shows nurses and doctors using drugs to cope with their demanding lives, endangering their patients by malfeasance, engaging in criminal trafficking. Elements of the story are collusion in high places, professional denial, even the murder of a colleague. Together with an undercover agent/ doctor with whom she had an affair, Strom-Paikin brought to light a "conspiracy of silence" in the medical profession with regard to impaired colleagues.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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