Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hesier's "An American Doctor's Odysey" led the non-fiction field, with "The Flowering of New England," "Audubon," the Bible, "Enjoyment of Laughter," and "Inside Europe" also proving popular...
...runners to the victim to tell him they saw the accident and recommend that their employers be retained for a damage suit. In New Orleans ambulance-chasers frequent police stations, are so friendly with policemen that they ride to accidents in patrol cars. In San Francisco in 1933, four doctors and five other employes of an emergency hospital were suspended for tipping off attorneys about accidents. In New York City, after insurance companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread...
...paying the patient's bill in advance. He soon got Doe to sign a contract hiring his employer and agreeing to pay him 50% of the money won from a damage suit against the taxi company. Then Doe was transferred to a hospital where the gang had a doctor. X-rays were taken of his leg, retouched to indicate it was broken. The plates won a fat fee from the taxi company, but Doe never saw his share. Kept in the hospital for weeks recovering from injuries he did not have, he ended up with a bill which completely...
...AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY-Victor Heiser-Norton...
...first Simplicio & Lucio Godino, Siamese twins, believed that Lucio suffered simply from a cold. Next a Manhattan doctor decided that Lucio had pneumonia, a disease caused by a definite germ. When the twins went to York Hospital, a small private institution, the Press at first treated the case as a funny publicity stunt developed to promote the vaudeville act of the twins and their wives. Lucio's pneumonia turned out to be rheumatic fever, a virus-caused disease, which attacked his heart, killed him fortnight ago and necessitated the severance of the thick isthmus of flesh & bowel which bound...