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(More customer reviews)The author has given us an excellent look into the workings of some aspects of medicine. Dr. Bartlett is a generational surgeon, scientist, musician, and now novelist. There have been notable MD/Novelist who in some cases never practiced medicine and wrote about it. Or practiced medicine and wrote about aspects of it not directly familiar to them. Here we have a clinician with enormous experience who gives us a peek into what things are really like from personal experience. The author gives the reader ample background or what the legal profession calls building a foundation. So the story starts out slowly as the characters are introduced. However, the detailed background gives us a vivid understanding of these principal characters; their strengths or foibles as the case may be. As a result the story picks up and almost tells itself as it moves to an exciting conclusion. Truly a page turner. Anyone interested in medical mysteries would love this book. This should be required reading for all medical students, or, for that matter anyone interested in or working in the medical field. Let's hope this is just the beginning for this talented author.
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Two little girls are admitted to the ICU with burn injuries that show signs of possible child abuse. The medical, social and legal systems swing into action and the investigation soon focuses on their father, who vehemently denies the charges. Dr. Steven Crane, a pediatric resident, is both a participant in and an observer of this process. He wonders if the father might actually be telling the truth. But Crane soon learns that, where child abuse is concerned, the accused are guilty until proven innocent.
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