Natural Causes
Michael Palmer
Language: English
Pages: 465
ISBN: 0553568760
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed are the only thing these women have in common. Soon Sarah is fighting to save her career, her reputation--her life. For she's certain there must be some unknown factor linking these women, and as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that someone will do anything--even murder--to keep a devastating secret.
Lisa appreciates the significance of those actions.” “I hope so. Do you have children, Mrs. Suarez?” “Three daughters.” “If someone hurt one of those girls, you would punish them if you could, yes?” “I would do what I could through legal channels to see they were appropriately punished, if that’s what you mean.” “Sometimes my methods are more direct,” Grayson said. “Today my attorney called and recommended that I accept an offer from the insurance company to settle our case against Dr.
containing her acupuncture needles. The box had been a gift from Dr. Louis Han. She had first encountered Han, a Chinese-born Christian missionary, while teaching with the Peace Corps in the Meo villages north of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Until his death nearly three years later, he was her mentor in the healing arts. The inscription on the box, elegantly carved in Chinese by Han himself, read: THE HEALING POWER OF GOD Is WITHIN Us ALL. The moment Sarah stepped back into Room A, she sensed things
little caught up—especially seeing as how I’m scheduled to meet with Willis Grayson tomorrow morning.” “The Willis Grayson?” “Yes. Didn’t I mention that? God, that was dumb of me. I meant to tell you about that when I got here, and I got so involved with—” “Tell me about what?” Mallon had stopped walking. “The girl who survived the DIC, the one who’s still in the hospital—” “Yes?” “She turns out to be Grayson’s daughter.” “What?” “I don’t know the whole story, but apparently she’s been
before selecting him as her supplier. He spoke almost no English, but Sarah’s once-decent Chinese was still good enough to conduct business with him. When she needed a translator, Kwong would rap his cane on the ceiling or strike it against a certain steam pipe. And within a minute or two, one of his American-born grandchildren would appear. Sarah was impressed with the man’s knowledge and drawn to his consistently optimistic outlook. And of course, there were the striking similarities—physical
tests. The tribunal, made up of a judge, an attorney, and a physician of the same specialty as the defendant, was not set up to determine guilt or innocence, Matt explained. The only question to be answered today was: Assuming Lisa Grayson’s allegations are true, has malpractice occurred?—or in legal terms: Do she and her attorneys have a prima facie case? “The tribunals find in favor of the plaintiff much more often than not,” Matt had explained. “But even in cases where they lose in tribunal,