Buzz Bissinger, un jurnalist deştept, agresiv şi intransigent, cercetează pentru Vanity Fair povestea unui medic ORL care a escrocat firme de asigurări, a făcut operaţii care nu erau necesare şi, cel mai şocant, a făcut rău fizic multor oameni, mutilându-i cu proceduri depăşite şi ignorându-le starea generală de sănătate, pentru a-şi întreţine stilul de viaţă opulent. Apoi a dispărut de pe faţa pământului vreme de cinci ani. Un articol care te bulversează pentru că încearcă să afle cum a ajuns un tânăr medic cu reputaţie bună un monstru obsedat doar de bani.

He has left behind a trail unlike that of any previous doctor in the U.S., one in which he saddled a wife with more than $6 million in debts and pushed his own father into deep financial trouble; left behind mountains of public documents claiming that in the name of sheer greed he performed hundreds of sinus-related surgeries that not only were completely unnecessary but also made some patients’ conditions worse; left behind accusations that he scared patients into having surgery by showing them hideous but phony images of their supposed conditions; left behind alleged misdiagnoses in which he failed to detect throat cancer in a woman who subsequently died, and missed the tumor on the pituitary gland of an eight-year-old girl while giving her sinus surgery she never should have had, because her sinuses were not yet fully formed; left behind a criminal indictment in federal court on 22 counts of health-care fraud; left behind more than 350 malpractice suits that have been filed against him; left behind a court deposition in which an eminent medical expert called him a disgrace to his profession and the worst doctor he’d ever encountered.

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/01/missing-doctor-201101?printable=true