In medicine, a single Mistake in an otherwise spotless career can determine the rest of your life--even if the Mistake was not your own Elizabeth Taylor is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital.
A Mistake daringly illustrates the startling mix of the coolly intellectual and deeply personal inherent in the life and work of a surgeon..
When a Mistake is life-threatening, who should ultimately be held responsible? Carl Shuker has produced some of the finest writing on the physicality of medical intervention, where life-changing surgery is detailed moment by moment in a building emergency.
The novel examines how a survivor who has successfully navigated years of a culture of casual sexism and machismo finds herself suddenly in the fight of her life.
But can she survive a single mistake? A Mistake is a page-turning procedural thriller about powerful women working in challenging spheres.
Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field.
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons\' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth\'s life is thrown into disarray.
But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong.
In medicine, a single Mistake in an otherwise spotless career can determine the rest of your life--even if the Mistake was not your own Elizabeth Taylor is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital
