Great fiction by a Florida RN

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Specializes in Critical care, trauma, cardiac, neuro.

My friend read this great book and gave it to me to read it. It s great! And it is by a fellow nurse too. She got it on Amazon. It takes place at a children's hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. It is called No Other Medicine by Gail G. Hallas, RN.

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What is it about? I am a book lover always looking for something new to read.

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Specializes in Critical care, trauma, cardiac, neuro.

I stole this from the Amazon site. This is a critique of it...

Michael Sutherland, an attorney afflicted with a childhood disease and his friend, Dr. Ross Manchester, foster Dad to an abandoned infant, join forces to confront what is wrong with the business of health care as the story rapidly weaves in, around and back again.

Marilyn, is a nurse is determined to do the right thing no matter the consequences and despite the warnings. Dr. Fossari is arrogant, intimidating and incompetent. It is a story about how evil individuals penetrate the health professions and the horrifying consequence that result.

This book questions the depravity of some of the forces at work in our health care industry and does it in a way that will get into the hearts and minds of everyone who has been a patient, cares about patients or will be a patient themselves one day.

This fictional account is full of such rich, poignant and believable characters that I became intensely angry at times, sobbed at others, and even jumped out of my reading chair to applaud them!

The author knows her settings and writes with such intimate knowledge of the inner workings of hospitals and the people that influence them especially the routines, errors, motivations and politics and conflicts. On one side are those that are motivated by patient needs, excellent outcomes and professional integrity and are dedicated to their patients; and there are those that are motivated by greed and power. When the setting is health care, this conflict triggers death and destruction which become the ultimate story line.

But this book is also about hope, aspirations and surprises in unintended positive consequences also.

This author brings the reader right into the thick of it with authenticity and passion. A must read for anyone who has ever had a blood pressure cuff wrapped around their arm.

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

Added to my Amazon Wish List. Thanks!

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