East Side General
Fiction in EnglishFiction, romance, historicalPhysiciansFictionHospitals
3.0
Open LibraryAbout this book
The full production of men in white, which pursues its catalytic course through the halls of a big city (New York) hospital, and from ambulance to amphitheatre details more than one drama of the fight to live- and for these doctors, the right to love. In attendance are Dr. Anton Korff, a former Nazi and out for easy money and easy women; Andy Gray, the resident, whose marriage to medicine lends an inviolability to the love of Pat Read, a socialite, and Julia Talbot, his assisting nurse; Dr. Martin Ash, head of the hospital, in love with his very rich wife but trying to withstand the demands of her money; Emily Sloane, the surgical supervisor whom no surgery could save; etc. etc. And while two radioactive burn cases bring in the police and the papers, indicate the possibility of an atomic killer, and eventually lead to an explosion which sets fire to East Side General, the dramas of the O.R. carry on, stitch by stitch, from a lobectomy to an embolectomy to Gray's achievement of a difficult anastomosis... No dead tissue, and a high cyclopropane combustibility- for the obvious rentals and sales. ([Kirkus Review][1]) [1]: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/frank-g-slaughter-5/east-side-general/
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Fiction in EnglishFiction, romance, historicalPhysiciansFictionHospitals
Setting
New York City20th century
About the author
Frank G. Slaughter
25 February 1908 – 17 May 2001
Frank Gill Slaughter was born in Washington DC, and was moved with his family to a farm near Oxford, North Carolina. In 1925 he received a degree from Trinity College and went on to study medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In 1935, while working as a physician in Jacksonville FL, he began writing fiction. In 1941 his first novel, *That None Should Die*, was published. He went on to write almost 30 novels, drawing on his experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a do…
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