For fans of Dopesick and Bad Blood, the shocking story of New York’s most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down.

In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li’s corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and Xanax, trading prescriptions for cash. Emergency room doctors, psychiatrists, and desperate family members warned him that his patients were at risk of death but he would not stop.

In Bad Medicine, former prosecutor Charlotte Bismuth meticulously recounts the jaw-dropping details of this criminal case that would span four years, culminating in a landmark trial. As a new assistant district attorney and single mother, Bismuth worked tirelessly with her team to bring Dr. Li to justice. Bad Medicine is a chilling story of corruption and greed and an important look at the role individual doctors play in America’s opioid epidemic.

Charlotte Bismuth started her legal career at the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, and joined the New York County District Attorney’s Office in 2008 as an appellate attorney. In 2010, she transferred into the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, which prosecutes felony narcotics crimes within the City’s five boroughs. She is a graduate of Columbia University, Columbia Law School, and the Instituts d’etudes politiques in Paris. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.

Jaime Bedrin is an award-winning journalist who started in the biz as a news clerk for The Record. She spent five years as a reporter and host at WFAE in Charlotte, N.C., where she also penned a style column in The Charlotte Observer. Later she worked for ABC News Now and and WNYC. A graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she’s freelanced for NPR, Marketplace, Time, and The Forward. Most recently, teaches media writing and journalism at Montclair State University. She lives in Montclair with her husband, their two sons, a cat, dog, beta fish, and leopard gecko.

Charlotte Bismuth, "Bad Medicine" with Jaime Bedrin