Bitter Medicine: Two Doctors, Two Deaths, And A Small Town's Search For Justice (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

Two Deaths Port Angeles Washington is a small town of pretty houses and smiling people surrounded by acres of pristine wilderness. Everyone thought it was the perfect place to live...until two local doctors made headlines. Two Doctors On a chilly January night Dr. Eugene Turner hastened the death of a three-day-old baby boy who had been pronounced brain-dead. Six weeks later ER physician Dr. Bruce Rowan hacked his wife to death with an axe then tried to kill himself--claiming he snapped after witnessing Dr. Turners euthanasia. A Small Town Rocked by A Shocking Fatality What really happened? What drove Dr. Bruce Rowan--a man who was entrusted to heal the sick--to so savagely take the life of his own wife? Acquitted by reason of insanity Dr. Rowan was committed to a mental institution. And thought the trial is over some fascinating ethical and legal questions have been raised by its outcome. Now bestselling true crime writer Carlton Smith reveals the never-before-told facts and the stunning truth behind two doctors two deaths a surprising trial and the picturesque town standing in the shadow of a ghastly killing.