num_pages: 250
description: "A promising sleuth and reams of medical knowledge." — Kirkus Review "I’ve read hospital mysteries a-plenty. What makes this one stand out is the dry tone, the brisk pace, the wry humor, the psychopathology of the stoic Sternbergs and the Lafayettes, two medical dynasties." — The Poisoned Pen "Its medical verisimilitude and appealing heroine add enough promise to look out for future installments." — The Baltimore Sun Written by a practicing doctor, The Cure For Remembering is a fast-paced mystery that pulls back the curtain on life at a busy hospital—the overworked nurses, cocksure surgeons, and patients bewildered by the bureaucracy. When her great aunt, a retired nurse, dies unexpectedly after routine surgery, Dr. Nora Sternberg turns sleuth. Amid a brewing scandal over missing narcotics, she uncovers a sinister plot involving retired doctors and nurses—and a shocking family secret. As Nora collects her clues, we meet the Sternbergs, Nora’s “stoic” family; her colleagues-in-arms Jessica and Celine; and all the people who Nora, ever the doctor, thinks of in medical terms—like the handsome physician whose looks are marred by the nervous tic of his periorbital muscles . Add to that the medical conference on bowel disorders, complete with catered lunch; Nora's devoted but ever-absent husband; and “Mother Lafayette”—the perpetually under-construction hospital—and Nora’s world charms readers even as she uncovers its murderous secrets. Anyone who has ever navigated a hospital’s corridors—or politics—will enjoy this witty medical mystery. Ruth E. Weissberger, MD , practices internal medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. This is her first novel.
language: English
title: The Cure for Remembering: A Dr. Nora Sternberg Mystery
titlecomplete: The Cure for Remembering: A Dr. Nora Sternberg Mystery
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Melville House