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Oxygen: A Novel - Carol Cassella

 
Description: ISBN 1416556109 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Carol Cassella / Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed / Hardcover / 288 Pages / ... more
Oxygen: A Novel - Carol Cassella ... Book is published 2008-10-20 by Simon & Schuster

Newest Review: ... used. What interested me was the fact that Carol Cassella is actually an anaesthesiologist herself, so I did wonder how ... more

 ... much of the book would perhaps be based on stories she had heard from hospitals herself, or from colleagues. I also liked the fact that all the medical knowledge included in the book would be true, all facts regarding anaesthesiology would be accurate and true to real life and consequently, although a work of fiction, there would be some elements of the real practice of medicine within the book. The story itself was incredibly interesting and also very emotional as well. Because the main crux of the story invo...more

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Premium Review Oxygen: A Novel - Carol Cassella: You can't live without this Oxygen (834 words)
by - written on 29/12/08 (Very useful, 155 readings)
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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

 

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