Il Dottore: The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor

This narrative describes the experiences of a prominent heart surgeon who lived a double life working at Mount Sinai Hospital by day and providing illegal medical services to members of the Mafia by night. Felber (a doctoral candidate at Drew U.) recounts the doctor's early ties to criminals during his childhood in the Bronx, his participation in a ring of underground abortion clinics in the 1970s, and the dilemma he faced when ordered by a Mob boss to kill a government witness on the operating table. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR