Review – Medical Error

Review: I’m so thrilled to have received a review copy of a book that reminded me of the movie The Net with Sandra Bullock, taken to a whole new level. This is one exciting, suspenseful medical thriller!

This book opens with Dr. Ana McIntyre performing emergency surgery on Eric Hatley. It was descriptive and I wasn’t sure where the author was leading the reader. But then the pace picks up and Dr. Anna McIntryre discovers her credit cards have been maxed out and it wasn’t by her. This was not a great way to end her horrible day!

On the same day that Anna discovers someone has stolen her identity, she discovers that she is being sued for malpractice. Could things get worse? Dare she ask that question? She had to find out who stole her identity—the police weren’t making her a priority. “Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? It all seemed unfair?” in Anna’s way of thinking, she wanted answers and she wanted them now.

How had things gone so wrong, all Dr. Anna McIntryre wanted to do was be a surgeon and help people, she hadn’t signed up for all this.

I quickly felt for Anna and her situation. The author’s casts of characters were colorful, likable and believable. I was quickly drawn in by how the author takes the reader to places they haven’t gone before. Dr. Richard Mabry’s medical experience makes this medical mystery scary, believable and makes you look at the ER, doctors and the hospital in a whole new light.

This author shows the non-glamorous side of being a doctor, along with all the red tape they go through and how it can be horrific at times. Doctor’s don’t have lots of time and information to go on when a patient arrives in the ER unconscious. They have to depend on their medical experience, any information the computer may have about their patient, details about their accident/trauma and medical data given to them by the emergency responders before the patient arrived in the ER.

Dr. Mabry did a great job of pacing this story while keeping interest in the unfolding story lines; this kept me up late wanting to discover what would happen next. I enjoyed, and was surprised at, the wit and humor the author used! He has masterfully woven well-timed humor into the suspenseful parts. I didn’t expect to laugh out loud while reading a medical mystery novel. I loved it. I was also fascinated at how much technology has changed and how we depend on it for so many things we do in life. Medical procedures, as well as everything else, changes with the times. How does anyone keep up?

Dr. Anna McIntrye is forced to take a look at her life and tries to figure out what she holds dear; she hadn’t stopped long enough to have thought this through before. I enjoyed taking this journey with her and beyond. I thoroughly enjoyed every page of this medical suspense story that has lots of heart. It’s made me want to check out this authors first book Code Blue. I’m also looking forward to reading the next book in this series Diagnosis Death. This is one author I’ll be keeping an eye out for, and I know you will too.