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Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease
Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease | Jason Dearen
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An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it. Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus Exserohilum rostratum. The death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis they'd unleashed. Bloodthirsty is how doctors described the fungal microbe that contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). Though NECC chief Barry Cadden called his company the Ferrari of Compounders, it was a slapdash operation of unqualified staff, mold-ridden lab surfaces, and hastily made medications that were injected into approximately 14,000 people. Once inside some of its human hosts, the fungus traveled through the tough tissue around the spine and wormed upward to the deep brain, our control center for balance, breath, and the vital motor functions of life. Now, investigative journalist Jason Dearen turns a spotlight on this tragedy--the victims, the heroes, and the perpetrators--and the legal loopholes that allowed it to occur. Kill Shot forces a powerful but unchecked industry out of the shadows.
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ShelleyBooksie
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The first third of this book (science) was captivating, the middle third was really hard for me to get into (the politics of creating and passing bills in the US govt) and the final third was very interesting (court case).
This book delves into the US pharmaceutical medical compounding business and its surprising lack of safety checks. It is scary how many people have died due to contaminated medications.

thebackyardgnome Sounds fascinating! 2y
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catiewithac
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Kill Shot (true crime)
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Jane Slayre (classic w/ twist)
The Art of Peace (zen/aikido)
Imperium (historical fiction)
#SundaySoapbox

AmyG I remember reading about this in the news. Stacked. 3y
Nebklvr Lincoln in the Bardo 🥰 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing!📚🙌🏻 3y
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Cruble88
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I could not put this book down once I started reading it. Took me a little less than 3 days and only because work and kids interrupted my reading time lol. Very interesting and scary to read how immoral some people can be. As a nurse I put a lot of trust in medicine and to think there are those who could abuse that trust make me physically ill. Definitely recommend this book to all.

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Cruble88
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On to my next book!!! This book is circulating through my coworkers and it‘s now my turn to read it. I love that the nurses I look up to care enough about me to include me and help me continue to grow. 2021 is my families Year of Mind and I love all the enrichment I am receiving!

catiewithac Happy reading 🍄 4y
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catiewithac
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READ THIS!!!! Compulsively readable medical true crime about a healthcare industry dirty secret: compounded medicines made on a vast scale WITHOUT FDA oversight. This book terrified me. Dearen recounts the 2012 methlypred fungal meningitis outbreak in chilling detail. It reads like the scariest novel, but it actually happened (and could happen again). Put this on the top of your TBR!!!

AmyG Wow. Sounds amazing and frightening. 4y
Breanne1 Thanks to you and @Megabooks I have two new books I want to dive in to. Thanks both!! 4y
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