SURGEON'S CHOICE

by Frank G. Slaughter ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1969

Finish getting the femoral cannula in, Bob, then cannulate the inferior vena cava."" If you don't know where you're at, in vivo and live on television, it's a heart-lung transplant, the donor being a man who should go to the chair and the recipient a worthy vaudevillian. And performing the surgery is overly idealistic Greg Alexander whose experimental work has been appropriated by the director of the clinic, Anders, and son of the man under whom Alexander learned to follow the gleam of the scalpel and the dream of pure medicine. However Anders has been trying to dislodge him and it seems likely that he will over the kind of new plant the clinic needs. Either o.r. ethics (who shall live, who shall die) and an agglutination of other heart problems (a sagging marriage, a beginning romance) assure the fact that although the transplant's successful and the patient dies, no ""severe rejection"" from this audience seems likely.

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION