Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates.

On today's show, I have a very special guest. He just published a book. His name is Philip Isle. Last name is spelled E I.L.

And the full title of the book, if you're watching this on YouTube, X or Rockman, you can see this.

Full title is prescription for pain, how a once promising doctor became the, quote, pill mill killer,

unquote. And he has a blurb there by Harold Schechter, who I, when I work for Ed, I've signed him up

for an interview too. So this is very famous. He's got great book blurbs and great reviews.

I think it just got published last week.

He already has seven, five-star reviews on there.

And the book does, is available on audio book.

It's on audio CD, which I don't see often.

And Kindle and Hardcover.

So you can check it out in different formats.

Yeah, it just came out April 9th. but a very important book and a lot of kind of

malfeasance in the medical community. But it goes in detail about a guy by the name of Paul

Volkman, and he can talk more in detail about that. So Philip Isle, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me, William. Excellent. So for people who may not have heard your name, I think this is your first book.

Maybe you can talk a little bit about your background.

I mean, you are an award-winning freelance journalist based in Providence, Rhode Island.

You're the former news editor of the Altweekly newspaper, The Providence, Phoenix.

And you've contributed to the Atlantic, the nation, Men's Health, Boston Globe,

Huffington Post,

and the Columbia Journalism Review. And you have an MFA in nonfiction writing from the Columbia

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