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terrO.R. - A Medical Liability Thriller (Fiction ?). (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Joseph J. Neuschatz (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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Unexpected death under anesthesia occur almost daily in American Operating Rooms. Some remain unexplainable. Until now.

TERRO.R. is a contemporary maze of intrigue and frightful medical investigative discoveries in such cases of cardiac arrests on the O.R. table. Hopefully, this timely novel is fiction...
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norma savory
5,0 su 5 stelle Page turner
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 22 settembre 2014
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very difficult book to put down and really makes you think. I feel as if I've been going around with my eyes and ears shut and not been aware
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Erika Borsos
5,0 su 5 stelle Brilliantly Conceived Secret Ending
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 29 aprile 2008
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Dr. Neuschatz has written a very intriguing novel about the the life of an anethesiologist Dr. Phillip Newman and his wife Kyra who is a pediatric nurse. Due to a serious unexpected death in the Operating Room, the story takes some unusual twists and turns which no reader can anticipate. There is a major surprise ending that will satisfy any reader of medical mystery thrillers. Dr. Robin Cook may be the more experienced novelist and best selling author but Dr. Neuschatz provides an equally thrilling reading experience. His book contains a highly contemporary theme which will leave a huge impact on the reader at the end. Furthermore, while the book explores a serious subject, there is much humor in the book, making it quite fun to read.

Unfortunately and unexpectedly, one of Dr. Phillip Newman's patients codes during surgery while he is being administered anesthesia and subsequently dies. It is a young man who is 19 years old who elects to have surgery to remove some tattoos. He had no allergies, no significant medical history and of note, no previous surgeries (therefore never had general anesthesia either). Suddenly, Dr. Newman is faced with a huge lawsuit for malpractice ... The hospital wants him to settle out of court. Although, Dr. Newman is reassured by his colleagues that this is how it is in modern medicine, it bothers him and he begins to research possibly causes for this most unfortunate death. Despite being reassured, that any physician can expect this in a highly litigious society (such as ours), he does not accept this explanation. Dr. Newman starts asking probing questions, what could have gone wrong? What special factors were over-looked? He arrives at some startling conclusions after he takes on the role of scientist and epidemiolgist. He realizes, some of the dyes used in the tattoo *could* have caused a reaction with the anesthesia. He does an internet search and asks some questions on an anesthesiolgist specialty site, looking for similar cases.

He knows the response of his team to the code was textbook perfect based on the current guidelines for ACLS (advanced cardiac life support) as taught by the American Heart Association. A 19 year old male died ... when it was an *elective* surgery to remove some tattoos. It should *not* have become life-threatening. It turns out news about the Code Blue which was unsuccessful in the OR passed through the hospital grapevine ... and the news spread even to a some other physician colleagues. Through some odd circumstances, Dr. Newman learned that his 19 year old patient *had* indeed had surgery at the age of 17 for a type of testicular cancer. Oddly enough, Dr. Newman also discovered, a life insurance policy had been taken out for this 19 year old exactly 3 months prior to this surgery. Strange, it seems as if it was known something would happen. In the meantime, Dr. Phillip Newman also discovered other cases similar to his, where tattoos were removed and the patients had sudden death while under anesthesia. The reader will be left hanging at this point to wonder what could have been the similarities in all these cases and it is NOT what you think. Dr. Neuschatz provides a real cliff-hanger to this question and then with a very sharp curve - the answer arrives and is much more sinister and threatening than anyone could imagine. This is a most highly recommended book. It baffles me why this book was not accepted by a publishing company and why the author had to 'self-publish' it. It has an outstanding plot and brilliant ending. It has highly accurate medical and surgical descriptions used within proper context. What more can any reader desire? Erika Borsos [pepper flower]
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Wandrwoman
3,0 su 5 stelle Philip Newman, MD, Gas Passer
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 18 gennaio 2011
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This is a highly detailed operating room procedural with a secondary emphasis on the medical malpractice insurance industry in the United States. If you like to read about doctors, the practice of medicine, technical jargon, step by step detailed surgical procedure, you will find this book compelling and informative.

Written by Joseph Neuschatz, a retired anesthesiologist, the plot seems auto-biographical in tone. The book, Neuschatz's first attempt at a novel, is short: 42 chapters and an epilogue, 160 pages in length.

The main character is Philip Newman, MD, attending anesthesiologist at Soundedge Memorial Hospital in Port Lincoln, Long Island. Dr. Newman is 45 years old and wears his hair in a comb over. He works long hours, plays tennis and drinks an incredible amount of coffee. Sometimes expresso. Benedictine and Brandy once in a while when out with his beautiful wife who is a pediatric nurse. When he takes her out they often have "lupper" whereby they skip lunch and have an early supper. This is often referred to as a "sunset special' in Florida, but I digress.

This is all to indicate that Philip Newman, MD is a straight up guy. He's smart, methodical, dedicated, stable and capable of speaking in very simple and direct sentences. He works very long hours. He uses a computer but always cleans out the spam from his inbox before he checks his email. He is no James Bond, or Johnny Depp, but who wants that in an anesthesiologist? Certainly I don't, and frankly, neither should you!

An interesting point here is that most medical thrillers feature a surgeon, a pathologist, a medical researcher as the main character. Rarely does the "gaspasser" get to step into the literary limelight. For the first time, I was introduced to surgery from the point of view of the anesthesiologist, and it truly is a complex and important aspect of the surgical procedure!

I found the plot line compelling. Dr. Newman is the anesthesiologist during a relatively standard surgery involving a bearded 19 year old male having an elective bilateral arm tattoo removal with a possible skin graft. (It is at this point I should add that if you are thinking of having a tattoo because you can always have it easily removed later, think again! You will likely require surgery, possible skin grafts, and general anesthesia).

Unfortunately, something goes terribly awry during this surgery and the 19 year old dies on the table. It is termed an "anesthetic death" by the coroner. The patient's father refuses an autopsy for religious reasons and then surprise, surprise, quickly sues the doctor and the hospital for malpractice.

Now this is pretty bad, but then Dr. Newman discovers that an anesthesiologist acquaintance in Los Angeles had an almost identical case! A bearded young male also having tattoos removed from his arms had also died unexplainably during the surgery, the father refused an autopsy and then successfully sued the doctors.

What's the chance of that happening more than once? I'd say slim to none, but then, in this thriller it happens multiple times throughout the US. Why is this happening? Who is doing this? How can it be stopped? Why are medical malpractice premiums going through the roof? Why young men with beards?

Is it the tattoo ink?
Ephedrine?
Blatant malpractice?
Terrorism?

Although the plot line kept me pressing the "next page" button, I found the writing to be rather plodding and technical. Entire chapters of whodunit seem to be missing. I was left wanting more.....exposition, explanation, creative lyricism, plot and character development.

Beyond the name and professional description of each of the characters, there is not enough literary development to give the characters life. Living, fully formed personalities are absent. Most of the characters are single dimensional, virtually interchangeable players with little defining one from the other.

The most we know of the hero is that he is 45 and wears his hair in a comb over and likes to play tennis and make terrible jokes. His wife is tall and blonde and very supportive of his work.

Additionally, everyone speaks to each other with the same voice dynamic. Insufficient idiom, contractions, inflection or idiosyncratic timing to differentiate husband from wife, anesthesiologist from surgeon, thoracic surgeon from plastic surgeon, West Coaster from East Coaster, FBI agent from 19 year old surgical patient. Everyone speaks identically, perfectly, evenly, woodenly, boringly.

This book does have excellent, technical vocabulary that kept me busy checking the dictionary in my Kindle: "logorrhea", "fasciculating", "choriocarcinoma" to quote but a few.

Also, there are numerous, better-than-average factoids:
-The thoracic surgery suite is nicknamed "Marlboro Country" by the hospital's surgical personnel,
-LOL is the abbreviation used on medical charts for little old lady,
-Propofol (the anesthesia abused by Michael Jackson) is called "milk of amnesia"

You will learn everything you ever wanted to know about Malignant Hyperthermia, a metabolic disorder known as "MH", a life time paranoid anesthetic obsession of the author's. You will learn a good deal about tattoos and toxicity (they can be). You will learn about the average day of an anesthesiologist in a busy hospital. I found most of this interesting and some of it quite dry.

Do I recommend this book? Yes. It is a good first effort that could use more creative development as well as a once over by a professional editor. "The Non-Hypocritic Oath" in the epilogue does nothing to enhance the story. It should be dropped from further editions.

DISCLOSURE: This review was solicited by the book's author. The Kindle format of this book was purchased by this reviewer directly from Amazon. No gratuity of any kind has been received either from Amazon or the book's author for the writing of this review.
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Bilbob
3,0 su 5 stelle Mediocre and an anaethesiological bore
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 5 marzo 2011
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Despite being a medic, I have to admit to being a bit of a sucker for pulp fiction of the Robin Cook 'Coma' type. Which is pretty much where 'terrO.R.' (ridiculous title) hails from. And not a patch on it, sad to say. The plot is preposterous and the segue from death by tattoo to terrorism is bizarre in the extreme. And there's simply too much showing off of anaesthesiology.
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Sanford E. Jacquard
4,0 su 5 stelle Death on the Operating Table
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 20 agosto 2006
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The author is an anesthesiologist who gives us a close glimpse at the life of a physician. He begins with the situation of a doctor driving to an emergency and who must stop at red lights and obey traffic laws; the doctor does not have the advantage of emergency sirens and lights even though life and death are at stake. Most of us lay people don't think about such complications.

The book is an interesting mixture of everyday life with its joys and pains. For example, the joys are described as breakfast in bed, going on trips to New York and its delicious delicatessen restaurant, playing tennis, making love to one's loving and caring wife. The pains are many, one of them being the loss of a child. In the mixture, we also find technical medical information including names of medical conditions, pharmaceuticals used in anesthesia, and medical procedures.

At the very beginning of the book, the reader is captivated by a gripping account of the loss of a young patient on the operating table and the vain efforts to save him. The medical terminology and everyday family life events are two elements of the book to which are added the characteristics of a mystery novel. The reader is now presented with legalities, with histories of unexpected deaths in the operating room, and with the effort to understand if the deaths are unexplainable or if there is a plausible cause. The mystery novel becomes the main thread of the book. It involves doctors in many parts of the country reporting similar cases of apparently unexplainable operating room deaths. A flavor of novelty and diversion is added even in the medio-legal segments of the book with accounts of dinners, games of tennis, walks through town, food, and French wine. And then, there are the plays on words: the orthopedic surgeon is nicknamed "Napoleon Bones-Apart," and the question of the tattoo ink gives, "mink, pink, sink, link."

An interesting character is introduced in the person of the nurse Margaret Kane. We learn that she was a former girlfriend of Dr. Phil Newman's, the book's main character. The past makes their working together difficult. The relationship between Phil Newman and Margaret Kane could be the subject of an entirely new story. Unfortunately, Margaret Kane is killed in a car collision between her Volkswagen and a Hummer driven by another doctor in the nurses'parking lot. The accident is described in a brief but poignant account in chapter eighteen. This accident could be regarded as a metaphor in which case the death of the nurse driving a Volkswagen and being hit by a Hummer driven by a doctor gives some food for thought.

The reader is brought back to the main thread of the book, the legal and detective aspects. There is a glimpse at the complications of legal maneuvers, malpractice court filings, and the involvement of insurance agents all of which are so time consuming, expensive, and exasperating to a physician that he considers changing professions.

The involvement of anesthesiologists from around the world by internet to review "complications and/or death under anesthesia" becomes a fascinating topic. The book is subtitled "fiction?" The question mark is significant because the reader wonders whether these internet connections among doctors and library research in legal matters by physicians do actually occur. Even more so, the question mark points to the possibility that Dr. Philip Newman's findings regarding the connection among the apparently unrelated cases of deaths under anesthesia are real. Without giving away the solution to the mystery, this reviewer can say that if the findings are real, they have very grave implications in today's world. This reviewer will also say that Terr.O.R. is a fascinating book which offers interesting medical information against a background of touching human relationships. All of this takes place in a setting of a detective novel.

The expression "good things come in small packages" can be applied to Terr.O.R. This reviewer recommends the 150-page book most highly for its informative and entertaining qualities and for its easy-to-read style. It is said that books are man's best companions. This is certainly a companion worth having.
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