OXYGEN opens with Marie Heaton, an anaesthesiologist at the height of her medical career, facing a nightmarish operating room disaster that ends a child's life and launches a tangled malpractice suit. Marie's best friend, colleague and former lover, Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidante as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the dead child. A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie's family. Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching ...
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OXYGEN opens with Marie Heaton, an anaesthesiologist at the height of her medical career, facing a nightmarish operating room disaster that ends a child's life and launches a tangled malpractice suit. Marie's best friend, colleague and former lover, Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidante as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the dead child. A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie's family. Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching an awkward dependency on Marie and her sister, Lori. But Lori has taken a more traditional path than Marie, and is busy raising a family. Although she has been estranged from him for decades, the ultimate responsibility for their father's care is falling on Marie. As her carefully structured life begins to shatter, Marie confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds, and the price of her own choices. Set against the natural splendour of Seattle, and inside the closed vaults of hospital operating rooms, OXYGEN climaxes in a final twist that is as heartrending as it is redeeming.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 2nd printing. Dust jacket has mild edgewear. Book has minor shelfwear to the base of the spine and faint toning to the bottom of the pageblock. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 291 p. Audience: General/trade. Medical fiction by the author of 'Gemini' and 'Healer'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Cassella?s gut-wrenching, fast-paced story captures the emotions, challenges and liabilities physicians face every day. The author grabs your attention from the moment Dr. Marie Heaton enters the operating room. When a child dies on the operating table Marie?s life turns into a legal nightmare. In an age where financial settlements destroy careers, lives and institutions everyone is looking out for themselves. You will not want to put this book down until you find out if Dr. Heaton can maintain her honesty, integrity and compassion when it appears everyone has turned against her.
