num_pages: 208
description: Was it mercy or was it murder? In this first novel, practicing physician Jim Rold, M.D. confronts the dilemma faced by all medical practitioners how to care for a suffering patient when the only merciful solution is death. Dr. Rold draws upon his own work with terminally-ill patients to create a compelling portrait of religious fundamentalism, moral dilemmas, and the "hard choices" involved in euthanasia. Fictional doctor Joshua Wesley is a doctor in a small Kentucky town who decides, after intense internal struggles, to help three terminally ill patients die. Creating characters both detailed and complex, Dr. Rold draws the reader into the first-degree murder trial that follows, and the outcry and support that emerges following these deaths. This spellbinding medical novel is bound to stir controversy and cause all readers to is it first degree murder, or first degree love?
language: English
title: First Degree Love
titlecomplete: First Degree Love
publisher: Strawberry Hill Pr