Unfortunate event
By: Marc David Veldt
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781502913401
Subjects: Anesthesiologists; Fiction; Murder; Malpractice
Description: " A mans life can easily be shattered by a single unfortunate event. After a patient dies following a routine operation, hospital administration needs a scapegoat. They find their victim in Dr. Jack Andrews, a brilliant anesthesiologist. Andrewss actions had no bearing on the patients death, but he finds himself thrown to the legal wolves by his so-called colleagues as they scramble to protect themselves. Facing a relentless, amoral prosecutor and allied with a malpractice insurance company acting in its own best interests, Andrews loses everythinghis money and his standing in the medical community. His money-obsessed wife divorces him, taking with her their two children. Jacks opponents think they've won. They think theyre the most ruthless players in the game of life. But Jacks about to introduce them to the games next level. Hes got nothing left to lose, and a mind trained to make life-or-death decisions. People start to diepeople who wronged Jack Andrews. A tense thriller, Unfortunate Event explores the dark side of operating room culture, the cutthroat world of malpractice law, and the mind of one man as his world crumbles around him." -- publisher.