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    The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder

    Written by Charles Graeber

    Narrated by Will Collyer

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    After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history.

    Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. When, in March of 2006, Charles Cullen was marched from his final sentencing in an Allentown, Pennsylvania, courthouse into a waiting police van, it seemed certain that the chilling secrets of his life, career, and capture would disappear with him. Now, in a riveting piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years in the making, journalist Charles Graeber presents the whole story for the first time. Based on hundreds of pages of previously unseen police records, interviews, wire-tap recordings and videotapes, as well as exclusive jailhouse conversations with Cullen himself and the confidential informant who helped bring him down, THE GOOD NURSE weaves an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship, and betrayal.

    Graeber's portrait of Cullen depicts a surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill, and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life hidden even to his family and friends. Were it not for the hardboiled, unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her children, there's no telling how many more lives could have been lost.

    In the tradition of In Cold Blood, THE GOOD NURSE does more than chronicle Cullen's deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers a penetrating look inside America's medical system. Harrowing and irresistibly paced, this book will make you look at medicine, hospitals, and the people who work in them, in an entirely different way.

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    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateApr 15, 2013
    ISBN9781611135527
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    The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
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    Charles Graeber

    Charles Graeber is a contributing editor for Wired and a contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Vogue, and many others. He has received many awards, and his work has been featured on NPR, CNN, the BBC, and numerous other media outlets.

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    • 4/5
      I can't imagine how much time went into getting all the facts in order for this book. Graeber did a great job puzzling the pieces together into a mesmerizing tale of murder and madness. This will certainly have you paranoid about a visit to the hospital! For true crime fans this is a must read.
    • 4/5
      Four stars or three stars--the rating I give this book is a tossup. The subject matter is hard to read, so it would get three stars for that reason. But Graeber did such excellent research and, most importantly, he tells not only the horror of what Charles Cullin did but, also, the horror of what the hospitals who employed him did.This is the nonfiction story of the serial killings of as many as 400 patients in 9 hospitals. The murderer was a nurse, Cullen.Murder is disturbing, especially when it's nonfiction. But worse, at least for this reader, is the realization that many, if not most, hospitals do not adequately prevent something like this from happening.In all nine hospitals where Cullen was employed, nurses were given too much free access to drugs, when the pharmacy, not individual nurses, should have controlled them. Plus, the hospitals hardly screened prospective employees. Even a highly rated hospital checked only a couple references and asked few questions. Plus, the hospitals they did call didn't tell the truth. They suspected that Cullen was dangerous, yet let him move on to kill again.Because this happened over and over with nine different hospitals, it can be assumed that hospitals in general, even those that get high ratings in US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, should be suspect. Does your hospital, too, do what is best for the hospital rather than patients? And, worse, would your hospital, too, cover up the truth if their nurse is possibly murdering patients?So, again, this is hard to read. At the same time, it is important that we know. I hope more people read this.I won this book through goodreads.com.
    • 5/5
      I really have to start reading more true crime. Some of my most unnerving reading experiences have come from books like these. I was very happy that I came across this book on a Best of 2013 list, because most of the major publications have let this one slip through the cracks.It's the story of Charlie Cullen, who worked as a nurse at multiple hospitals across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He had a good work ethic, was well-liked amongst his colleagues, and did his job well, if you overlook the fact that he has been implicated in the deaths of over 300 patients. Charlie liked to poison IV bags in the supply closets and watch as the IVs were given to random patients across the hospital. Administrators at many of these hospitals suspected him, but none ever went so far as to prosecute him. Charlie was simply relieved of his duties and eventually found work elsewhere.The second half of the book details the investigation into a mysterious patient death which was eventually linked back to Charlie. But even more frightening than the murders were the lengths that the hospitals went to to avoid a potentially disastrous scandal. The detectives enlisted the help of a former coworker and friend of Charlie's to convict him, and her taped conversations are included at the end of the book.Okay. Where to begin? How about how much I loved this book?The story itself is chilling, but the author's journalistic writing kept it believable without straying into melodrama. Charlie is not portrayed as a victim, nor is he portrayed as a soulless monster. He is a complicated criminal with motivations that go far beyond having a rough childhood or becoming too attached to his mother.But the author doesn't try to give an explanation for Charlie's behavior. He presents the facts and lets the reader draw their own conclusions. And in this case, very little embellishment is needed. The book concludes with Charlie and his friend eating at a restaurant as his friend tries to provoke him into confessing. The dialogue, which is taken word-for-word from the official transcript, is one of the most chilling parts of the story.Pacing is very fast and I have to admit that I stayed up way too late trying to finish this book before bed. Surprisingly, the author didn't include photographs, even though Charlie was convicted several years before the book was written. Was he trying to limit the sensational quality of the story? It's hard to say. But I couldn't help myself - I looked up photos of Charlie Cullen after I finished reading and it added another dimension of reality to the story.The murders are not particularly bloody but this still makes for an extremely disturbing read. Definitely suggested for fans of true crime, and its lack of gore might entice other readers as well, but it's a book that will likely keep you awake at night.
    • 4/5
      I can't imagine how much time went into getting all the facts in order for this book. Graeber did a great job puzzling the pieces together into a mesmerizing tale of murder and madness. This will certainly have you paranoid about a visit to the hospital! For true crime fans this is a must read.
    • 5/5
      A page-turner, about Charles Cullen, who may have murdered 400 people in his nursing career, who has admitted to around 40. An account of what he did at 4 or 5 different hospitals, and how he was able to get away with it - in other words, about the negligence and institutional cowardice of those hospitals. It took a friend of his, a fellow nurse, to finally see what was going on and provide the evidence that ended up with his arrest. (She deserves more credit in the acknowledgments than she gets!)The only thing I didn't quite understand was WHY? What made him do it? What need were all those murders fulfilling? The author interviewed him at length, but we never get the answers - maybe there just are none. Maybe evil has no reason.
    • 3/5
      Having suffered withdrawal symptoms after bingeing on 'Making of a Murderer' on Netflix, I decided to get another shot of true crime with 'The Good Nurse'. It's a fascinating and horrific story about possibly America's most prolific serial killer (we don't know for sure how many patients he killed but it could be up to 400).
      It's written in the style of a novel which I usually find quite effective (especially in the hands of a master like Hampton Sides). But Charles Graeber tends to over-write at times and his use of extended stilted dialogue came across more as irritating than authentic. Graeber gives us a detailed study of Charles Cullen (The Good Nurse of the title) and covers his murderous career in almost too much detail. The book comes alive in the final third where we finally get to the police investigation. However, the huge question of how he was allowed to get away with it for so long and why none of the hospitals he worked in carried out proper investigations is never answered mainly because Graeber wasn't able to talk to any of the hospital authorities involved. In the end, they all made undisclosed out-of-court settlements with the victims' relatives and it was all hushed up.
    • 4/5
      This is a true crime book about the serial murderer Charlie Cullen. No one, not even Charlie Cullen himself, knows how many patients he murdered, but he is believed to have killed upwards of 300 people before he was finally arrested in 2003. When he first began his spree, he would inject particular patients (or inject into their IV drips). He began with insulin, resulting in insulin spikes which if untreated (or even when treated, since with these frail patients treatment was frequently unsuccessful) would kill the patient. Later he began using other drugs, including digoxin. He subsequently began to randomly inject numerous saline IV bags in the storage room with these poisons, so that it was the "luck of the draw" as to which patients would receive the poisoned drips. Often the poisoned drips would be administered when Cullen was not even at the hospital, making detection even more difficult. Many of these patients were already seriously ill, so usually, at least in the beginning foul play was not suspected.Even so, early on there were instances in which questions were raised about Cullen. A relative of one patient questioned Cullen about an injection Cullen gave the patient which didn't seem to appear in any doctor's orders. The patient died, but the hospital convinced the relative that the death was natural and convinced the relative not to demand an autopsy. It soon appeared that the hospitals at which Cullen worked were almost covering up for him. At each hospital when the suspicious deaths began to mount, and the evidence appeared to point to Cullen, he would be let go (usually by just issuing a "Do Not Hire" order, since in most cases he was working on contract). Horrifically, the hospitals did not report their suspicions to the State Nursing Board or to any other hospitals, even when other hospitals called for references after Cullen applied for a new job. Cullen was able to continue his murderous spree for 16 years in 9 separate facilities, as he moved from hospital to hospital. (And this is not to mention Cullen's numerous suicide attempts and mental breakdowns--in between stints as a nurse, he spent months in in-patient psychiatric hospitals, none of which seemed to bother the employing hospitals; they were just glad to have a nurse who was willing to work overtime and weekends.)Even after the police were involved, and detectives were investigating, the hospitals still tried to cover up Cullen's actions. It took the detectives months to learn that records were available through which they could view Cullen's medication requests--the hospital had told the detectives that such records were not available for more than a few months. This aspect of Cullen's story is the most chilling for me. Rather than risk their own liability for Cullen's actions, each hospital appeared to sweep everything under the rug, and let Cullen move onto another hospital and kill more patients!!!What I took away from this book is that every patient in every hospital should have a family member or friend with them at all times, to double check everything that is being done to the patient and every medication being administered.Highly recommended 3 1/2 stars
    • 4/5
      Part II, the investigation, was fascinating, but I think Part I, from the murderer's point of view, went on much too long - "get hired at a hospital, kill a bunch of people, get fired, repeat" gets a little tedious after a while. I did like that the focus on the second part was almost entirely on Cullen's best friend at the hospital, Amy, who ended up working as a confidential informant for the police and finally soliciting the confession that got him convicted. She was fantastic.
    • 5/5
      Great Book!! The investigation by the author was very thorough.
    • 3/5
      It was mind blowing how many people where ok with helping him get another job in another hospital when they knew what he was doing
    • 4/5
      A comprehensive, exhaustive, and detailed true account of the slow and calculated murders of possibly hundreds of victims within the walls of several east coast healthcare institutions. A little slow at times as the author goes about building up the story but, overall, definitely a worthwhile listen of a deadly serious subject. Nothing at all to laugh at in this story!

      I would say my favorite part of the story was after all the background murders are described and the police start getting involved and begin the business of apprehending the individual which, as it turns out, is not an easy task! But the buildup of these two detectives as they go about trying to catch this guy was very intriguing.

      Another interesting aspect as well as a very integral part of the story are all the underlying coverups which occur within the Big Business of Medicine which, ultimately, underscores the fact that, after all is said and done, the Health Care Field is, very sadly, first and foremost a business very much concerned with staying in business and doing practically anything necessary in order to do so, including hush-hush coverups which could implicate them in some very sticky business.
    • 3/5
      Very interesting but the reading voice was okay at best
    • 4/5
      Good book. Kept my attention. It is worth the listen.
    • 5/5
      Very informative. To the point. Helps understand drugs uses . and how they can be deadly.
    • 5/5
      If you are a nurse this is a must read! What a disturbing and exhilarating book! It makes you realize what can be possible and how you can be more vigilant to pay attention to others around you! If your not a nurse it’s still a great book but please understand that this is not the way that 99% of the nurses you come in contact would ever consider or even think of doing!
    • 2/5
      Interesting topic, but poorly written book. The text doesn't flow well. The simple sentencess make it choppy . The story is told well enough to maintain my interest, but the structure of the writing makes this interesting subject somewhat boring.
    • 5/5
      Incredible how many hospital management let die for the sake of theyre reputation.
    • 5/5
      An engaging book that took over my life for two days. It really achieved turning facts into a story and getting in the mins of the killer.
    • 4/5
       I’m not a fan of true crime graphic murder podcasts or books. I can’t handle the gore. This nonfiction book tells the terrifying story of the prolific serial killer who killed by injecting drugs into the IV bags of his patient, but it’s not gruesome. It’s incredibly well-written and hard to put down. Excellent journalism, researched but not overwhelmed by facts. The author tells the story more in the style of In Cold Blood, connecting you to the people involved.
    • 3/5
      I don't know what was more disturbing about this book--the dispassionate, random way Charlie killed his (up to 400!) victims or the fact that many of the hospitals knew/suspected he was killing patients and did nothing more than ask him to leave.

      The writing wasn't very good in the book, but I don't know how much of that was Graeber and how much of that was trying to recreate Charlie's attitude/way of describing his actions.
    • 3/5
      This was an okay book. I finished it. But I didn't feel like I really understood the killer or his motives any better than when I started it. And what's with all the footnotes? This left me with more questions than answers.
    • 4/5
      A close look at the 16 year killing spree of a nurse starting in the 1980s. It was just astonishing to hear how easy it was for him to find a new job at the next hospital and that no hospital was willing to inform the police about the possible killings until he had killed hundreds of patients!
    • 5/5
      Not your every day true-crime book. Charles Graeber has written "The Good Nurse" to read like a novel; so-much-so I had to keep reminding myself that what I was listening to really happened — I mean that in a positive way! It doesn't just open your eyes to multiple crimes committed, but invites you into the Killers mind, his home and his workplaces. Nothing is guaranteed but I can say this: If you like Ann Rule and Jack Rosewood, give Charles Graeber a try. You might find your new favorite true-crime author.
    • 3/5
      Digital audiobook read by Will Collyer Subtitle: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and MurderCharles Cullen was a registered nurse who worked in a number of New Jersey hospitals. He always volunteered to care for the sickest patients and was a seemingly dedicated nurse. But people began to notice that wherever Charlie worked, the death rates skyrocketed. When he was finally arrested, he was quickly dubbed “The Angel of Death.” Graeber conducted many interviews, including with Cullen and with the friend and colleague who eventually cooperated with police to capture him. It’s a fascinating story and points out flaws in the administration of drugs in hospitals … at least in the early 2000s. My own experiences in more recent years shows a vigilance that was not apparent in Graeber’s account. I really applaud the efforts of nurse Amy Loughren. It was she who put the pieces together and who took the time to study records of drug use in the hospital to discover the patterns that pointed to Cullen’s guilt. Her courage and tenacity as a police confidential informant was instrumental in Cullen’s conviction. I’ve always been interested in medicine, and I love the true crime genre, though I don’t read much of it these days. This didn’t quite capture my attention the way other true crime works have done. It was interesting and Graeber clearly did his homework, but it wasn’t very compelling. Will Collyer did a fine job reading the audio book. He has good pacing and clear diction.
    • 5/5
      SOOOOO good, and for me, so many paralells, having been a nurse about the same amount of time, living in the same community and working in one of the hospitals....I UNDERSTAND how this can happen and found this a horrifying page-turner.

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    • 5/5
      I've always enjoyed true crime books; The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber is the finest I've ever read. Absolutely riveting, horrific, and detailed, it tells the story of Charles (Charlie) Cullen, the so-called Angel of Death, who ended the lives of patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals over a period of fifteen years. Charlie confessed to 40 murders. It is thought likely that he killed approxiamtely 400 people, in his confidential and trustworthy position as nurse in critical care wards, intensive care wards, and burn units. Charlie was regarded as an excellent nurse. He arrived to work early, he was tireless, patient, a great colleague, who helped out his fellow nurses, and who was always available to switch shifts if necessary. He was also a husband once, and the much-loved father of two daughters. The book is not only a story of a psychopathic nurse and murderer. It is a strong indictment of the hospitals which employed Charlie, and which never investigated the suspicious deaths which happened on Charlie's watch. No one reported the medications that disappeared from stock rooms. Only "internal investigations" occurred, and Graeber makes it explicit that these in-house investigations were a joke. Charlie still got references from hospitals that fired him; no one reported their suspicions to the police nor, more terribly, to the next hospital that employed him. And so Charlie was enabled to continue killing for over a decade and a half, and did so in order that the hospitals involved did not lose their reputation. In the last hospital where Charlie worked, hospital officials lied to the police in order to cover up the murders of their patients. I'm enraged after reading this book. Charlie's murders are horrifying, and shocking, but ultimately are the result of an incredibly unstable mind. The decisions that hospitals administrators made to keep their problems from the public were made by bureaucrats who thought that reputation and profit were more important than human lives. I am angrier at them than I am at Charlie. He shouldn't have been allowed to continue. There is never an explanation for why Charlie murdered. Perhaps evil and psychopathy have no explanation, perhaps they exist in parallel to goodness and honesty. I am intensely disquieted by this chilling and gripping book.

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    • 2/5
      I have never disliked a book so much and I feel horrible b/c it was a first-reads, but I have to be honest for those who are thinking of reading the book in the future. It was very dry. That was my first problem with it. The book just dragged on and on. Like another reviewer stated the "ur's" and "um's" and "ah's" in the dialog made me want to scratch my eye's out. Perhaps this is indeed how they talked, but I really could have done without it. The book then would have been about a third the length as well and that would have made me happy.The author failed to give me what I was looking for and that was the down and dirty of the crime. In many instances it seemed like he just skimmed over it in order to get back to what a wonderful and helpful nurse Charlie really was. I was also looking for more in the "madness" part of the story, but all I came away with was he had a little depression and was a flake, not much madness there.I will say to the authors credit the fact finding was impeccable. And the footnotes were especially helpful. I wanted to like this book, but just couldn't.

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    • 5/5
      Trying to branch out from my literary snobbishness, this is techinically the first "true crime" book that I have read, and it surprised me. It's extremely well written, extensively researched, and it is chilling and suspenseful. Graeber paints Cullen in such a human way. He's not a sympathetic characcter, but a very real and very human character, which makes him all the more terrifying. Cullen is maybe the most prolific serial killer in American history, though Graeber doesn't paint him as a nightmarish vampire. On the surface, Cullen is just your awkward but likable nurse. An everyman. That is why he is so frightening. He could be anybody, but Graeber gives up Cullen's inner demons to the reader so vividly that we know he isn't. A true crime tale that reads like a novel, with excellent characterization on all accounts. A superb and unsettling book.

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    • 3/5
      I don't know what was more disturbing about this book--the dispassionate, random way Charlie killed his (up to 400!) victims or the fact that many of the hospitals knew/suspected he was killing patients and did nothing more than ask him to leave.

      The writing wasn't very good in the book, but I don't know how much of that was Graeber and how much of that was trying to recreate Charlie's attitude/way of describing his actions.
    • 4/5
      Charlie Cullen is a complex being, and after reading this account of his life, you are likely to be left with more questions than answers. Why he did what he did can only be speculated and no one – not even Cullen himself - can give definitive answers. But as we learn more about Cullen and the hospitals and other care centers where he worked, we get a clearer picture of how these atrocities, random murders, could occur. This nonfiction book will enthrall and repulse you as you realize that it is possible that such murders could still be committed by the very people we trust to save lives. Well researched and written by author Charles Graeber, this is a story you won’t be able to put down until you’ve read it or forget it once you do.