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By James B. Stewart. 334 pp., illustrated. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1999. $25. ISBN 0-684-85484-8.

In Blind Eye, a book that lays the foundation for an indictment against medicine, James B. Stewart, the recipient of a 1988 Pulitzer prize for his reporting on the stock-market crash and insider trading, has assembled the known facts of Dr. Michael Swango's 14-year career (1983–1997) as a suspected medical serial killer. Swango is referred to as a suspected serial killer because he has never been convicted of murder and is currently in federal prison for committing fraud in his applications to work as a physician.

The facts are these: Swango came from an unloving home dominated by a tyrannical, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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