My friend the hospitalist was livid as he came from meeting the administration. “They said doctors cost too much!” he sputtered. “We’re an expense. An expense the hospital can no longer support. WE are an expense!” He turned purple. Nice color, like a good Bordeaux. I worried about his blood pressure. He can\’t have a healthy lifestyle! None …
People are dropping like flies in Dr. Emma Steele\’s ER, and nobody knows why. A new disease? Medication errors? Poisoned oxygen? She must find out, even though her job is in peril, her daughter disappeared, and she\’d rather be home, drinking wine. A mercy killer? But why would he kill a healthy patient? Are they …
My second thriller in the ER crimes, MERCY, was the hardest one to write. Like every middle child, it got ignored a lot. OVERDOSE came out with a bang. I obsessed on it like a mother on her first child. Nothing else mattered. I made sure no harm would come to it. I …
I work in the ER. It’s not an easy job. Not glamorous either. At least not as glamorous as my Mother-in-Law used to think. Years ago, when I declared I was going into Emergency, she looked at me askance. She didn’t ask why. She looked at me with her wise old eyes. “Let me tell …
