Bellevue by Robin Cook
Medical thriller with some paranormal activity thrown around!
The typical cook has a medical environment which in this case is the Bellevue hospital which apparently has so much history!
The history has pioneers and brave physicians and surgeons who had done procedures which today would be considered crude and brutal!
One surgeon doing an amputation on the heaviest bone without any anesthesia!
Even when had already been introduced in the surgical field all over the world!
But the cherry on the cake and the core plot of the story is the Lobotomy!
Without revealing much I can tell you that the start and the end of the story involves doing a ‘procedure’ on an ‘innocent’ person by force! Now whether is was normal or ‘paranormal’ is for you to decide!
We have a new surgical intern who like every other intern in any medical college around the world is over worked and under paid! Sleep is a luxury and calls in the night are the norm! You are tasked with the most complicated cases but you actually do not know much!
The food is bad and the duty room is small but still gives you the best sleep!
Your seniors and the nursing staffs are your best friends and teachers and you have to get it together every single day!
Add to this if you are having visions and complications in your cases then you are literally in a soup!
A dark and frankly depressing novel which still does give the nostalgic reminiscence of my internship!
The sudden and unpredictable ending left me angry and shocked! Then again that is Cook!
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