Doctor Hyde - A True Story of Addiction and Redemption

By Steven Locnikar and Steven Joseph

From a forgotten Pennsylvania steel mill town, to a revered cosmetic surgeon in Scottsdale, Arizona. A client list that once included world renowned athletes, models, actors, and even Royal family... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587768593
• ISBN13: 9781587768590
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Hudson House Pub
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Can this really be the Truth?

I was intimately involved with the Locnikars for the second part of the book, and found the first part a little hard to believe, until I spoke with a friend who was at the party with Moe on the roof with the Ak47. She confirmed the mound of coke in the closet and more, this was before she read te book!. I thought it was just made up to sell books, it was reality. Doc left out ALOT in the second half, mostly for fear of getting sued I am guessing. There were even more sad and funny stories that could have been told. I am sure he left some things out to spare certain people allot of shame. I glad he didn't include anything on me. I personally witnessed the morning after the part about the all-consuming paranoia with the ripping apart of the house, it was truly amazing on one hand and also a little scary that a man could do that much damage in one night. There is definitely enough material here for a movie, but I think that would need to glamorize the badness and the madness too much to fit with Doc's sense of wanting to help others stay out of this dangerous territory. All in all a very interesting read, you will most likely read it in one sitting. It isn't as funny as it could have been, but I guess that wasn't the point.

The "SOPRANOS" of drug use in the Medical Community

If I didn't know this was a true story I would think this is the new fictional HBO series,about rampant drug use and addiction in the "doctor world" instead of the "underworld". Dr. Locnikar had demons to conquer that to the reader appeared to be beyond hope. I couldn't stop reading and even after many months since I've read it, I think about it...especially the last paragraph!

Doctor Hyde, A compelling view of addiction, like no other

"Doctor Hyde" provides an inside view of a drug addict's thought processes in a surreal world which exists in our own neighborhoods even though we ignore the very thought that we live among such travesty. It is a shocking reality-check that makes one wonder why and how this can happen to the average individual and yet this is a real-life account of an invincible plastic surgeon who falls victim to an addiction that drives him to near-death and eventual resurrection. Riveting and disheartening, you will cling to the book with hope and prayer this once-defiant character finds the strength to free himself from the clutches of narcotics. You will leave the book with the fear your children will never follow the same path to hell. A must read for a look inside America's greatest problem...drug addiction. Dr. Locnikar, "May God be with you" in your daily struggles.

personal friend and patient

I was saddened to read about what has happened to doc. I will always admire him as a person and consider him a friend. I wish him all the best that life has to offer and hope he finds happiness. He was the best surgeon and I will never find another I respect or trust more. sincerely J. Mills