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The hosts highlighted the book as a compelling true‑crime account of a serial‑killer nurse, noting the author's extensive seven‑year research and his reputation from major publications. They pointed out how it exposed failures in the privatized hospital system and linked its themes to broader critiques of criminal justice. The discussion conveyed strong endorsement of the title as a must‑listen story for the audience.
Episode: Episode 56
It was mentioned that Charles Graeber, the author of 'The Good Nurse', a true crime book about a murderer in the hospital system, had a similar opinion on the criminal justice system.
Charles Graber's answer seems to address that question explicitly of course Graber is the author behind the fantastic book The Good Nurse a true story of medicine madness and murder in it he details how the privatized hospital system in this country may be broken and it appears he has a similar opinion of local criminal law enforcement let's listen.
Episode: Episode 40
It was a book about a serial killer nurse that nobody else wanted to tell. The author spent seven years researching and writing about a serial killer no one had heard of.
Ironically this man's name who spent the last eight years of his life devoted to telling the story of Charles Cullen is also Charles last named Graber. He wrote a book called The Good Nurse about a story nobody else seemed to want to tell.
a writer with previous credits writing for gq wired national geographic bloomberg the new yorker and the new york times drop everything and spend seven years of his life researching and writing a book about a serial killer no one's ever heard of is the question why why did he do it
I mean you have to basically convince me sentence to sentence why should care about anything I don't want to see your baby pictures you know I don't want to hear about your people I don't know I'm not just naturally interested but you can make me interested and I knew that was true of the story
you might get the sense that Charlie Cullen had several accomplices to murder having been caught again and again and again doing things that at the very least put people's lives in danger and at the very worst was intentional homicide
you can hear him producing the copy of the newspaper and saying look that's me you know he always treated uh the interest of guys like me as people swiveling their heads at a car wreck and he's very disparaging which i admire in a way except for the fact that he's created the car wreck and they did it on purpose so it's not really his decision
