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.

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A collaboration between a highly experienced doctor and a professional journalist, this book is the definitive account of virtually every medical mishap and scandal of the past two hundred years. Learn the horrifying secrets of the medical profession as this book reveals the scandalous stories of healing gone wrong.

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