Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away With Murder

"BLIND EYE is a true thriller, but it is also an indictment of protectionism within the medical profession. Despite the existence of a data bank on incompetent physicians to which hospitals are supposed to report and to check with prior to hiring, a study by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed that compliance with this requirement is poor. The American Medical Association, Stewart tell us, when "offered an opportunity to comment on the HHS study, attacked the methodology and the conclusions and continued to wage its rear guard action against any federal monitoring or reporting on incompetent or criminal physicians.' If physicians cannot or will not police themselves, it subjecting doctors to close scrutiny, and perhaps creating their own data bank.James B. Stewart is the author of 'Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away With Murder' with ISBN 9780783889344 and ISBN 0783889348.