THE DONATION
Language: English
Published by iUniverse, 2008
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- Title
- THE DONATION
- Author
- Lee MD, M.D. Myles Edwin Edwin
- Publisher
- iUniverse
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0595465196
- ISBN 13
- 9780595465194
The Donation is a medical thriller that dramatizes the shortage of organs available for transplantation. What if organ donation became a choice as a means of means of execution for prisoners on death row? How would it affect the donor pool? Would prisoners realize one last chance for redemption, to give something back to society? And what about the physicians who find themselves cast in the role of executioners as they convert executions into surgical procedures, against the guidelines of the American Medical Association and the Hippocratic oath that urges them to do no harm?
A surgeon's role is to bring order out of chaos. The chaos begins when a celebrity patient, Joseph Spencer, discovers he needs a heart transplant. While in the pre-operative holding area, Spencer sees his donor in an adjacent bed. Not only does he see him--he recognizes him. His sedation makes it impossible for him to protest what for him is an unimaginable horror, and he loses consciousness, unable to abort the procedure, even though to do so could cost him his life. Spencer survives the procedure but becomes suicidal. The transplant surgeon, Ross Fairing, discovers that he and his team have been unwitting co-conspirators in the death of the donor who had no business on an operating table, let alone be in a hospital. He confronts his own consternation that a courageous and innovative operation has created an ethical conundrum that could destroy his transplant program and his career.
A shocking revelation at the end of the book turns a tragedy driven by one man's grief into an affirmation of life, releases Spencer from his suicidal torments, and returns him to the world of the living.
Morality and medicine collide with the criminal justice system in "The Donation," a medical thriller that illuminates the organ donor shortage, one of the most pressing issues in medicine today
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About the Author
Myles Edwin Lee. M.D. is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon who has practiced in Los Angeles, California for 38 years. He has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters in his field, as well as a textbook of complications in cardiac surgery, entitled "Near Misses in Cardiac Surgery." Dr. Lee is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a senior member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, and a consultant in cardiac surgery for the Central Complaint Unit of the Medical Board of California. The Donation is his first novel.
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