How did a premiere Chicago hospital come to be a “butcher shop” that performed unnecessary medical procedures on its patients? If the walls of Edgewater Hospital could talk, they would proudly share the years of good medicine before breaking down into tears recounting the horrible crimes done within those walls. Former employees, patients, lawyers, and urban explorers recount the history of how a once-prestigious hospital deteriorated into a bloody fraud machine. If the Walls Could Talk recounts the sordid history of Chicago's Edgewater Hospital from its 1929 opening to its abrupt 2001 closure following a 58-count federal indictment all the way to present day when a city has to decide what to do with an abandoned hospital. Podcast debuts February 2020. This episode is written and produced by Todd Ganz and Stephani Young. Visit www.ifthewallscouldtalkpodcast.com for more information. Follow on Instagram @IftheWallsCouldTalkPodcast and on Twitter at @Ifthewalls.  Music featured in this trailer for If The Walls Could Talk is Suspended in a Dream by Dmitri Belichenko/Lynne Publishing used under license through NeoSounds. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ifthewalls/message