The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No [Paperback]

A bristling, courageous account of the moral struggles faced by critics in academic medicine. Gut-wrenching but fascinating tales of human nature, conformity, and power. A thriller-like work of nonfiction. Elliott has a reporters eye for expressive details, and his matter-of-fact approach is an effective way to write about stories that shock the conscience. Masterfully written &. A must-read for the throngs of students obsessed with someday wearing a stethoscope around their necks. Riveting&. Detailing the extreme pressures to stay loyal that whistleblowers face, Elliott paints a damning portrait of the medical communitys workplace culture. Readers will be outraged and enthralled. Fascinating&.A disturbingly eye-opening read. Meticulous and compelling&. I was unable to stop reading this astonishing books riveting accounts of the paradoxes inherent in assuming the role, action, and devastating punishments accruing to medical whistleblower. I absorbed it in a single evening. A brilliant, harrowing book: part medical investigation, part memoir, part searing portrait of human behavior from systematic cruelty to near-obsessive moral codes. Carl Elliott has written a page-turner that manages to be both cynical and deeply compassionate. Urgent, unforgettable, and beautifully written. Carl Elliott, one of America's most important and humane voices calling out medical corruption, goes deep in What reads at first like a sly crash course on Nicomachean ethics quickly reveals itself as a rip snorting thriller about lone-wolf whistleblowers whove peeked inside Americas elegant, well-funded human-trial labs to find a bloody, nearly Aztecan barbarism.