The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder Free Audiobook Download by Charles Graeber

Charles Graeber, a retired physician, recalls his career as a doctor during which he saw many difficult cases, but little attention was paid to the mental health of patients. He discusses in detail the case of Florence Nightingale, who is remembered today for her contributions to nursing and healthcare.

Charles Graeber, a newly-minted doctor and young father, never expected to be living in the boonies of rural Oregon when he first left his home in New York City. But he was lured by an offer to work at a private psychiatric hospital that specialized in advanced brain surgery. After a few years, Charles began to feel more and more troubled as his colleagues' actions widened into something dark and twisted. One night after dinner at the hospital cafeteria, two nurses stopped him on the floor to tell him about a group of patients who were saying that some doctors were doing things that were not kosher - like purposefully inducing manic episodes and then stabilizing them so they would not go off their meds. Charles began looking into this with renewed interest

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder is a detective story of murder from four different perspectives. The book follows the progress of Dr. Richard Clark's life when he was a young resident in an insane asylum for mental health practitioners. Dr. Clark investigates a murder at the hospital where he works with Dori Maron, who is also a doctor. The issues they come up against are not only human error, but bureaucratic and institutional corruption.

Charles Graeber’s book starts off with a bang. The prologue leaves your jaw agape as you hear the story of how a nurse in charge of a high security psychiatric ward, Ward A, kills five patients. What takes place over the next few hundred pages is that this nurse, Hannah Smith, is determined to find out what goes on in the psyche of those who have committed such horrendous acts. In doing so, she becomes aware that she herself has been afflicted with some sort of madness and must come to terms with her own thoughts and feelings while trying to stop other people from becoming insane.

The Good Nurse is a gripping, true-life story of one man's struggle to come to terms with the murder of his mother by a doctor who was supposed to care for her. In this book, you'll find an intriguing mystery that will keep you hooked.

It is a story of madness, murder, and medicine. The Good Nurse tells the story of Dr. Harvey Cooperman, who was acquitted of murdering one of his patients in court but was later incarcerated for a different crime--and it's not over yet.