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Mill City Press, Inc.
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Featuring: Alex Lowe
376 pages
ISBN: 1934937495
EAN: 9781934937495
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What happens when medical treatment is determined by the
patient's ability to pay? Alex Lowe has painful memories
of Richland Memorial Hospital. Five years earlier, she
watched helplessly as her mother spent her final days of
life in bed three of the ICU, suffering needlessly before
succumbing to the ravages of metastatic colon cancer. Now,
as the newest nurse at Richland, Alex finds herself
working in the same intensive care unit, determined to do
what she can to banish the demons that have plagued her
since her mother's death and to prevent the suffering of
other terminally ill patients. Things are going according
to her plan until she makes a shocking discovery about Jim
Curry, the physician who cared for her mother in her final
weeks of life. Curry has a track record of keeping
patients alive until the all-too-bitter end, putting them
through test after painful text that ultimately turn out
to be useless to the dying patient. And, as Alex soon
discovers, Curry isn't acting alone. She vows to do what
she can to help terminally ill patients slip peacefully
away instead of being subjected to painful tests and an
undignified death. Because of her compassion, she quickly
finds herself involved in a whirlwind of secret medical
decisions and cover-ups in an intricate conspiracy that
runs deeper than anyone could have imagined. Are Jim Curry
and the staff at Richland simply bound by their vows as
physicians to keep patients alive at all costs? Or is
there something far more sinister ongoing at Richland? Can
Alex Lowe do something about it before more victims are
brutalized, and before she gets in any deeper?
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