The Second Opinion by Michael Palmer
By Michael Palmer
Struck down by means of a hit-and-run driving force, one of many world's Most worthy medical professionals lies comatose within the ICU unit of Boston's Beaumont sanatorium. not anyone thinks he'll live on. of his little ones think therapy might be stopped. yet his daughter Thea refuses to renounce hope―and starts off to suspect a cover-up. As an excellent doctor who left the health facility to paintings with the negative, Thea is aware all too good the hidden agendas and private conflicts that lurk underneath the outside of an elite clinical heart. whilst a late-night sanatorium intruder is pointed out as a qualified killer, Thea is confident her father's twist of fate was once no accident―and somebody plans to complete the job…
Who would wish to kill a guy who saves lives―and why? The solutions, Thea fears, are locked deep contained in the brain of the one dwelling witness―her father―a guy who can't movement or converse. till the flutter of a unmarried eyelid presents him the capability to communicate…and bargains Thea a terrifying glimpse into an unfathomable conspiracy.
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The biological clock of brain death had begun ticking the instant Petros's heart had stopped. Thea's own heart felt like an expanding balloon, her stomach a pit of molten acid. Calcium… potassium… Perhaps it was an abnormality of one or the other of those, she thought desperately. Or maybe some drug toxicity. Or maybe tamponade. ' To one side of the cubicle, Niko stood, his arms folded, his face stone. 'Code Blue Medical ICU… Code Blue Medical ICU…' the overhead page operator's voice droned from speakers outside the unit.
I'm afraid… Stephen Bibby, a graduate of Emory Med, had been her physician since a bout of pneumonia twenty or so years ago. He was a man Hayley respected, if for no other reason than that Bibby knew his limitations and never hesitated to make a phone call and arrange a specialist referral for a second opinion. Hayley felt a wave of nausea sweep over her, and thought for a moment she was going to have to excuse herself to go and get sick even before she found out precisely what she was up against.
I need more time with him before we… before we let him go. Can't you understand? Niko, look. Look at his neck veins. I think they're becoming distended. ' Niko said, with no more than a glance at their father's neck veins. Distension of them was one of the first signs that blood or other fluid was accumulating and causing life-threatening pressure to build up between the pericardial membrane and the heart muscle itself. 'After eight days? Doubtful. Almost impossible. ' 'But look,' Thea said. 'His blood pressure's dropped and his venous pressure has gone up and he's having those extra beats.