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Taking Lives
A Handbook for Those Suffering Medical Harm
(and for those who haven’t–yet)
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Taking Lives
Elizabeth Eugenia (James) LaBozetta
2017
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The truth is like a lion.
You don’t have to defend
it.
Let it loose and it will
defend itself.
Saint Augustine
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to every medical malpractice victim--past, present, and future.
It is for the patient’s-rights activists who fight day-and-night for change in the systems that are
wantonly killing us in record numbers.
It is for my four associates who fought long and hard until they just couldn’t fight even one more
day:
Laura Burns
Lucille M. Iacovelli *
Angela Thompson- Heairet
Dayton Smith Jr.
You are all sorely missed and have not been forgotten.
Know, somehow, that I have kept my promise to you with this book.
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This is also dedicated to one old-school doctor who hated what his profession has become and
did everything he could to help me after I was injured. He asked me to write this book; I kept my
promise:
George Dixon Clouse, MD
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