โ Scribed by David Farris
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Pediatric anesthesiologist Farris's debut is as sharp as a scalpel, a gripping,
well-crafted novel of medical suspense offering more than the adrenaline rush of
constant emergency room disasters. Surgery resident Malcolm Ishmail is working
the ER in Glory, Ariz., when his 13-year-old asthma patient, Henry Rojelio, goes
from amiably talkative one minute to comatose the next. Seven years later,
Malcolm, now an "itinerant physician" working in a string of Nebraska cow towns,
reflects on his disgrace. His affair with the attending physician in Glory,
brain surgeon Mimi Lyle ("she was tall, classically beautiful, and, from my
testosterone-hardened viewpoint, undeniably sexy"), was a serious mistake.
Despite rumors of incompetence, Mimi is considered at the top of her profession,
so Malcolm watches with mounting horror as she botches one operation after
another. After reporting her to hospital authorities, he finds himself ousted
from his residency, relegated to a succession of smalltown emergency rooms in
the hinterlands and eventually threatened with criminal prosecution. Slowly he
begins to piece together the succession of events that have landed him in
purgatory, only to realize that the vengeance-seeking Mimi lies at the center of
the mystery. But there's still one more lesson to be learned: Mimi's better with
a pistol than she is with a scalpel.
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