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A mistake : a novel / Carl Shuker.

Shuker, Carl, 1974- (author.).

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"Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon—the only female consultant at her hospital. But while she operates on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. 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. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field. But can she survive a single mistake? A Mistake is a page-turning procedural thriller about powerful women working in challenging spheres. 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. When a mistake is life-threatening, who should ultimately be held responsible?"-- Publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781640092495
  • Physical Description: 179 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019.

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Genre: Medical fiction.

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CARL SHUKER is the author of five novels, including Anti Lebanon, The Lazy Boys, Three Novellas for a Novel, and The Method Actors, which won the 2006 Prize in Modern Letters. A former editor for The British Medical Journal, one of the oldest medical journals in the world, he has lived and worked in Tokyo and London for many years, and now lives in his home country, New Zealand, with his wife and their two children.

Carl Shuker is the author of four novels, including The Method Actors, The Lazy Boys, and Anti Lebanon. The Method Actors won the 2006 Prize in Modern Letters. He works for the British Medical Journal, one of the oldest medical journals in the world. He lived in Tokyo and London for many years and now lives in his home country New Zealand with his wife, the novelist Anna Smaill, and their two children.

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