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thirty on ‘such and such' a night and he told me a story of having been injured in the plant. He had come right to my office.” The plant didn't have any record of it because it took place practically at going-out time. Giuseppe said that he didn't stop to tell anybody because he thought it would be all right. He tried to go home and he found that he couldn't walk. So he went into his doctor's office on Sackett Street. Then the doctor would make a false report. He would show Giuseppe how to fill out the notification to his employer and tell him to go home and go to bed. He would do his leg up, or whatever it was. Then he would file a medical report that he was disabled and so forth.

We found a whole nest of them operating. Sackett Street, Brooklyn was the center of the operation. It was in a way a surprise to me to find that it was so common. One began for the first time to doubt the integrity of the medical profession, in spite of the fact that we had so many admirable doctors in New York who were entirely trustworthy.

We also discovered that there were certain doctors employed by the insurance companies that would testify in ways that were favorable to the insurance company. I've already gone into that.





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