Bitter Medicine: Two Doctors, Two Deaths, and a Small Town's Search for Justice

by Carlton Smith

Book Overview

Offers the true story of a wealthy doctor who was acquitted of brutally murdering his wife due to his claims of insanity from having witnessed another doctor perform euthanasia on a baby. Original.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312969929
• ISBN13: 9780312969929
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

Although it doesn't draw any definite conclusions, this book doesn't need to. It goes into great detail about what happened to Dr. Turner, and especially Dr. Rowan. The book is over 300 pages long so there is enough detail for you to be able to draw those conclusions for yourself. It does leave open however, whether Dr. Rowan was insane at the time of the murder. That part is still a mystery.

A good read

I'm an avid but discriminating true crime reader and I found this quite interesting. It certainlly took me more than an hour to read (see the first review)! I'm also an RN, and found the medical events believable and well explained. I got a little tired of the political aspects, but that's more my problem than the author's. The references to life-long depression were accurate (I also lived many decades with undiagnosed depression) and the bizarre crime made sense, horrible as it was. The writing was good quality. I recommend this book highly.