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By Barry Werth. 400 pp. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998. $25. ISBN 0-684-80769-6.

For readers steeped in the literature of medical malpractice, this excellent, well-written book takes a novel, insightful, and humane approach. On the basis of records and detailed interviews with physicians, lawyers, other experts, and insurance representatives as well as the parties involved in the case, the book covers approximately 10 years of a lawsuit and the life of the participants, from its beginning in March 1983 with the birth of twins, one dead, the other severely disabled, until its resolution in December 1993. The book documents the agony of the family, which suffered a severe medical misfortune, and the anguish . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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