With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, Oxygen combines an intimate story of relationships and family with a high-stakes medical drama.
Set against the natural splendor of Seattle, and inside the closed vaults of hospital operating rooms, Oxygen climaxes in a final twist that is as heartrending as it is redeeming..
As her carefully structured life begins to collapse, Marie confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds and the price of her own choices.
Although Marie has been estranged from her Texas roots for decades, the ultimate responsibility for their father\'s care is falling on her.
But Lori has taken a more traditional path than Marie and is busy raising a family.
Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching an awkward dependency on Marie and her sister, Lori.
A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie\'s family.
As she struggles to salvage her career and reputation, Marie must face hard truths about the path she\'s chosen, the bridges she\'s burned, and the colleagues and superiors she\'s mistaken for friends.
Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidante as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the patient in question.
Marie\'s best friend, colleague, and former lover, Dr.
But when her tried-and-true formula suddenly deserts her during a routine surgery, she must explain the nightmarish operating room disaster and face the resulting malpractice suit.
Marie has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine.
She has worked, lived, and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospital.
Marie Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession.
Dr.
With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, real-life anesthesiologist Carol Cassella\'s riveting national bestseller seamlessly melds compelling women\'s fiction and medical drama to create an involving debut that\'s just what the doctor ordered ( People ).
With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, Oxygen combines an intimate story of relationships and family with a high-stakes medical drama
