Victor Wallberg, complaining of sudden excruciating abdominal pain, calls his neighbor, Dr. Clifford Harris. Harris instantly recognizes the symptoms of a catastrophic abdominal event requiring immediate surgery. He calls an ambulance, and the patient is transported to a nearby hospital where Harris operates successfully. While in the Post-operative Intensive Care Unit, the patient develops an acute onset of intraabdominal bleeding requiring a second operation from which the patient does not survive. Dr. Harris diagnoses a rare bleeding disorder, only to have his diagnosis called into question when an autopsy demonstrates the true cause of death to be an overdose of the medication used in an effort to save the patients life. Post-operative investigation results in a suspicion of murder levied on Dr. Harris. Did the doctor kill his patient and why?
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Before beginning his writing career, James R. Baehler was an executive with I.B.M., Xerox, and CBS, and served as president of Combosco Scientific Company. For twenty years he has been a negotiations consultant.
Sheldon Cohen M.D. F.A.C.P. is a specialist in Internal Medicine, has served as medical director of a suburban Chicago medical center and two Chicago area Health Maintenance Organizations, taught internal medicine to students at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and the Chicago Medical School, served as a quality consultant for hospitals in the United Sates, South America, and Europe, and served as a consultant to the Ministry of Health in Ukraine for the development of a Hospital Accrediting Body.