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Coronary, a true story of medicine gone awry, Stephen Klaidman

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Coronary, a true story of medicine gone awry, Stephen Klaidman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coronary

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Stephen Klaidman

Sub title

a true story of medicine gone awry

Summary

In the summer of 2002, fifty-five-year-old John Corapi visited Dr. Chae Hyun Moon, a celebrated cardiologist in Redding, California. Corapi had been suffering from exhaustion and shortness of breath, and although a physical examination and a conventional stress test revealed nothing abnormal, Moon insisted that the calcium level in Corapi's coronary arteries called for an angiogram. Moon performed the procedure briskly and told Corapi he needed to have a triple bypass. However, Moon decided the surgery could wait until Corapi returned from a previously scheduled trip. Unnerved by the diagnosis and also by Moon's inconsistent statements, Corapi sought other opinions. Others doctors found that his heart was perfectly healthy. Corapi decided to take his story to the FBI. As local agent Mike Skeen soon discovered, Corapi was one of a number of people who had suspicions about Moon and Moon's go-to cardiac surgeon, Dr. Fidel Realyvasquez. Together, these leaders of the Redding medical establishment put hundreds of healthy people at risk, some of whom never recovered. Soon Skeen launched a major investigation, interviewing numerous doctors and patients. The case's every twist and turn is documented here

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