In the years that followed he was linked to the deaths of over 100 patients and was dubbed Dr Death.

He then fled to the US to escape prosecution.

Virginia Walker a qualified registered nurse worked closely with Dr Patel in the years he worked at the hospital and Dancing with Dr Death is her personal account of this period.

In this book she catalogues the daytoday stresses and horrors of working in a health system that seemed more obsessed with money and budgets than people and health.

This is a startling story of one of the saddest periods in the history of the health system in Australia.

Product Details Paperback Book Authors Virginia Kennedy and Dot Walker Genre History/Medicine ISBN 9781741105551