First Do No Harm Lawrence W Gold MD Dawné Dominique 9781479244423 Books
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First in the Brier Hospital Series. If you believe that television, movies or medical fiction, accurately portray what it’s like to be an acute care physician or a critically ill patient in a hospital today, think again. Doctor Joseph Polk is an intelligent, charismatic, and a powerful member of the medical staff at Brier Hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he’s killing his patients. No gun, knife, poison or drug injected into their intravenous tubing, common plot lines in medical thrillers, and he doesn’t plan to kill them. They die anyway because this once brilliant physician, a functional psychopath for most of his career, has decompensated. Nurses and front-line physicians see Polk’s indifference, incompetence, and stubborn cruelty, but the medical staff and the hospital administration are willfully blind. Patients suffer, and worse. Jack Byrnes, finally completing his training in Intensive Care Medicine, joins the staff at Brier Hospital. Well prepared to care for patients, Jack is woefully unprepared when he runs smack into Joe Polk, the medical staff and the hospital’s administration. The strength of First Do No Harm lies in the authenticity of the medical setting and the struggles of patients and physicians. Joe Polk is a very different kind of villain.
First Do No Harm Lawrence W Gold MD Dawné Dominique 9781479244423 Books
Despite the almost non-existent plot, numerous typos, added words, omitted words, syntax errors, and abysmal punctuation makes this book almost worth reading for the unintentional humor. Nah, not really, but the errors are very funny.It did not bode well when page one contained the following sentence: “Steve loved Laura’s warm genuine smile gave her and earthy quality, far removed from the detached, icy-cool image of many flight attendants.” A scant 3 pages later, “Helen, not a morning person, shook her head in disgust at this ghastly display of good humor at that 5:15 a.m.”
Some other notable and representative (but far from exhaustive) errors include, “The frenzy of intensive care is addictive, my drug of choice like the adrenalin high of the skydiver or mountain climber?” and “Cancel all these order. I’m rewriting new ones.” There’s also “A smile will do, I said, pausing for affect.” Or “I immediately shut of the IV line and scowled my disappointment when I a lump of infiltrated IV fluid rose above the needle site.”
Then there are the personal favorites, such as “I’m trying everything know to pull his through, but it may be too late.” And, “I’m having trouble letting it go of this Polk situation.” And “Sir,” I started, “I changed in your orders.” And for those still following what passes for plot, don’t worry about the bad guy getting away with it, “One way or another, we hope, justice will be find its way to Polk.”
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First Do No Harm Lawrence W Gold MD Dawné Dominique 9781479244423 Books Reviews
I purchased this book when it was free, as did many others. I agree that the storyline was great - I enjoy watching medical dramas and other shows and movies that have a medical theme to them, so I had a hard time putting this book down simply because the storyline kept me engaged. However the grammar and editing left a lot to be desired. I agree with others that say the felt like they were reading a first draft of a book - there were several spelling and puncuation errors, and the formatting was horrible - the margins were justified, so the spacing was completey off, and the right margin was very wide. If it were not for the engaging storyline I probably would have put this book down after a few chapters. I have read samples of Dr. Gold's other books though, and am looking forward to reading them in their entirety when I can afford them.
As a former health professional, I enjoyed the daily drama surrounding the keeping of health and saving of lives. However, privacy concerns often stood in the way of sharing stories or knowing the details of decisions doctors face every day. This book opens a window and allows the reader to see inside. The characters are fictional, of course, but the stories are written by one who knows.
Really enjoyed the story. It was a fast, easy read with a few twists and turns. My rating of a 3 was due to the numerous typos, limited, or possibly even absent, performance of proofreading, misuse of words, contraction errors, and grammatical errors, Just to mention a few of the glaring issues. In many places it seemed like the errors may have been attributed to editing suggestions, however, it doesn't appear as though the reconfiguration of sentences, words, or construction were proofread after changes were made.
Reading this book after finishing "No Cure for Murder," I feel it's more polished than the first one. Lawrence Gold is a retired medical doctor who writes novels based on his experiences at a hospital near the fictitious "Brier Hospital" in Berkeley, CA. Unlike the doctors who have written other medical thrillers, he does not use sensational and outlandish plots. A typical medical thriller has a government conspiracy or cover-up endangering the population with a new super-bug or chemical compound, while the hero tries to mitigate its effects or find a cure. Other sensational plots have big pharma or a biotech company marketing a product with deadly side effects, and the doctor who tries to expose them finds himself the target of company assassins. These writers don't see the illogic in a corporation killing off its customers.
Instead, Dr, Gold finds the drama in the events and interplay of personalities in a community hospital. In this case, the problem is a sociopathic doctor who slips through the system. The hospital quality assurance committee fails to spot his chronic pattern of malpractice until to late, although the ward nurses are aware of his carelessness. Dr. Gold also weaves into his story the shortcomings of the HMOs, which impede adequate treatment for some patients because it's not in their book of regulations.
Hospital politics are Dr. Gold's forte, and he describes meticulously the pressures and problems which protect the incompetent practitioner. A whistle-blower can get sued by the miscreant, a fact confirmed by a friend of mine who is a retired internist, and this inhibits uncovering an inadequate physician.
At various points in this book, Dr. Gold presents the various heart-wrenching problems faced by doctors, such as medication errors, and deciding if and when to "pull the plug" on a terminally ill patient. Dr. Gold skillfully lays out the drama inherent in situations that real-word doctors face regularly. His characters come alive, even the sociopaths and politickers.
Dr. Joe Polk, the inept physician in this plot, has had problems of his own, such as his grief over son's being seriously injured in an accident and incapacitated, Dr. Gold also very accurately describes the way a sociopath's mind works, such as his reaction after he attempts to strangle his wife. He he responds by telling her "See what you made me do?" thereby denying responsibility for his actions.
Unfortunately there are some typographical errors in the manuscript. I have seen this before in books. One example is "Unrepentant Sinner," by Charles Askins, which at some points looks like a first draft before editing and proofreading. For me, these do not detract from the excellence of the plot.
What a wonderful medical novel! I was spellbound, could hardly put it down. The drama was intense, and I even liked the love story, slim as it was. The lives of the other major characters seemed believable and significant.
Unlike some other reviewers, I experienced the book almost wholly through the 's text-to-speech function. Thus, if there were typos and grammatical errors, they slipped past me. Having some of the chapters written in the first person and others in the third worked here.
Too familiar myself with medical issues and hospitals, I was struck by the accuracy and breadth of Dr. Gold's descriptions.
I will definitely get another of the books in this series.
Despite the almost non-existent plot, numerous typos, added words, omitted words, syntax errors, and abysmal punctuation makes this book almost worth reading for the unintentional humor. Nah, not really, but the errors are very funny.
It did not bode well when page one contained the following sentence “Steve loved Laura’s warm genuine smile gave her and earthy quality, far removed from the detached, icy-cool image of many flight attendants.” A scant 3 pages later, “Helen, not a morning person, shook her head in disgust at this ghastly display of good humor at that 515 a.m.”
Some other notable and representative (but far from exhaustive) errors include, “The frenzy of intensive care is addictive, my drug of choice like the adrenalin high of the skydiver or mountain climber?” and “Cancel all these order. I’m rewriting new ones.” There’s also “A smile will do, I said, pausing for affect.” Or “I immediately shut of the IV line and scowled my disappointment when I a lump of infiltrated IV fluid rose above the needle site.”
Then there are the personal favorites, such as “I’m trying everything know to pull his through, but it may be too late.” And, “I’m having trouble letting it go of this Polk situation.” And “Sir,” I started, “I changed in your orders.” And for those still following what passes for plot, don’t worry about the bad guy getting away with it, “One way or another, we hope, justice will be find its way to Polk.”
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