For the next several years he was consumed with the fen-phen cases, but argued he worked under the authority of partners who made the key decisions.

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If the book is entertaining, it is because Fen Montaigne is a better writer than he is a fisherman, with a sharp eye for character and a gentle awareness of the gulf between his world and the one he is travelling through.

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He said that one of the problems with fen-phen, a diet drug combo that wound up causing heart-valve problems, was that doctors were too eager to hand them out.

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In 1996 he converted the centers into clinics for doctors to prescribe fen-phen diet drugs, only to run into the little problem that these drugs can cause fatal heart problems.

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Over the years he has taken cases involving penile implants, Vioxx, drug-coated stents, breast implants, fen-phen, pollution-spewing fertilizer plants, an Alka-Seltzer ingredient and hog farms.

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