Oxygen

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JODI PICOULT MEETS ATUL GAWANDE. IN THIS RIVETING NEW NÖVEL BY A REAL-LIFE ANESTHESIOLOGIST, AN INTIMATE STORY OF RELATIONSHIPS AND FAxMILY COLLIDES WITH A HIGH-STAKES MEDICAL DRAMA. Dr. Marié Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession. She has worked, lived and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospitál. Marié has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine. But when her tried-and-true formula suddenly deserts her during a routine surgery, she must explain the nightmarish operating room disaster and face the resulting malpractice suit. Marie's best friend, colleague and former lover, Dr. Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidant as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the patient in question. As she struggles to salvage her career and reputation, Marié must face hard truths about the path... Tovább

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JODI PICOULT MEETS ATUL GAWANDE. IN THIS RIVETING NEW NÖVEL BY A REAL-LIFE ANESTHESIOLOGIST, AN INTIMATE STORY OF RELATIONSHIPS AND FAxMILY COLLIDES WITH A HIGH-STAKES MEDICAL DRAMA. Dr. Marié Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession. She has worked, lived and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospitál. Marié has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine. But when her tried-and-true formula suddenly deserts her during a routine surgery, she must explain the nightmarish operating room disaster and face the resulting malpractice suit. Marie's best friend, colleague and former lover, Dr. Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidant as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the patient in question. As she struggles to salvage her career and reputation, Marié must face hard truths about the path she's chosen, the bridges she's burned and the colleagues and superiors she may have mistaken for friends. A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie's family. Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching an awkward dependency on Marié and her sister, Lori. But Lori has taken a more traditional path than Marié and is busy raising a family. Although Marié has been estranged from her Texas roots for decades, the ultimate responsibility for their father's care is falling on her. As her carefully structured life begins to collapse, Marié confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds and the price of her own choices. Set against the natural splendor of Seattle, and inside the closed vaults of hospitál operating rooms, Oxygen climaxes in a final twist that is as heartrending as it is redeeming. CAROL WILEY CASSELLA majored in English Literature at Duke University and graduated from medical school in 1986. She currently practices anesthesiology in Seattle and is a freelance medical writer specializing in global public health advocacy for the developing world. Her personal experience with a diverse rangé of patients is the inspiration behind her fiction-an exploration of universal humán hopes and frailties, and the murky line where science intersects with the soul. She is aalsó the mother of two sets of twins, fifteen months apart in age, and is | working on her next növel. Vissza