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    Prescription For Death
    Prescription For Death
    Prescription For Death
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    Prescription For Death

    By Barry Friedman

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    A gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering electrocardiograms. The setting is 1931 when electrocardiography was a relatively new diagnostic tool.
    Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects the scheme, but digging out the evidence proves a deadly pursuit. Downing is up against a a devious lawyer, unscrupulous doctors, crooked insurance agents, and killers.
    Downing must match his ingenuity against that of the scammers with an unimaginable threat lurking at his every move.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Friedman
    Release dateMar 30, 2011
    ISBN9781458028730
    Prescription For Death
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    Barry Friedman

    Barry Friedman holds the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Chair at the New York University School of Law. He is a constitutional lawyer and has litigated cases involving abortion, the death penalty, and free speech. He lives in New York City.

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