The Defendant
Sara Charles, Sarah Charles. Vintage Books USA, $7.95 (231pp) ISBN 978-0-394-74663-0
In an effective illustration of the rising financial and emotional costs of medical malpractice suits, to both physicians and patients, the authors here recount a $10 million lawsuitultimately unsuccessfulfiled by a former patient against Charles, a psychiatry professor at the University of Illinois. PW's verdict: ""thoughtful'' and ``vivid.'' (November)
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Reviewed on: 10/28/1986
Genre: Nonfiction