Healing Knife
To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. Her beloved father's early death from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant…
Specifikacia Healing Knife
To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. Her beloved father's early death from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant before the age of forty. She has cast everything else aside - friends, a relationship, empathy - instead allowing an obsession with work to take hold. Even so, Rachel doesn't want to operate on Craig Rawlins. She is not a paediatric surgeon, and he is only twelve, but she is persuaded that she is his only chance. Rachel knows that a GP's misdiagnosis has left Craig's mother Eve with a deep distrust of the medical profession. Craig is all she has and she barely consents for the surgery to go ahead. The operation is a success, but soon afterwards sepsis sets in and rips through Craig's fragile body. Nothing could have prepared Rachel for the guttural sound that tears from Eve's throat as she