Oxygen: A Novel - Carol Cassella

Oxygen is a medical novel based around the branch of anaesthesia, putting people to sleep before operations and giving epidurals etc. Marie Heaton is an anaesthetist at First Lutherean Hospital in Seattle, Washington and is at the top of her career and thoroughly enjoying her job. She's a highly regarded doctor but her reputation is about to be called into question when a child whom Marie anaethetises dies on the operating table and all signs point to Marie being at fault. Is everything as it seems in the case, or is Marie merely a scapegoat? Aside from reading all of Jodi Picoult's work, I tend not to digress from the genre of women's fiction, but when I ...  Read the complete review