Of Flesh and Blood
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Publisher Description
A hundred years ago, Dr. Evan McGrath realized his dream of establishing a hospital in the Pacific Northwest, a hospital that would never turn away a patient in need. But the personal cost was steep: Evan lost the love of his life while making a powerful enemy of the hospital's financier, Marshall Alfredson.
Today, the Alfredson Medical Center is internationally renowned for its care. The two founding families remain faithful to Evan's vision, but their history is clouded by forbidden love, conflict, and betrayal. Crisis is besieging the Alfredson. A decision by Dr. Tyler McGrath, a child cancer specialist, leaves a young patient's family shattered. Dr. Jill Laidlaw, Tyler's wife, is a researcher poised to offer fresh hope to multiple sclerosis victims—including a former presidential frontrunner—until rumors of research fraud endanger her career. And in the face of temptation and career demands, Tyler and Jill are drifting apart.
Devastating family secrets, doomed relationships, and present-day medical disasters threaten not only the Alfredsons and McGraths but the legendary hospital itself.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Emergency-room physician Kalla s latest novel (after Cold Plague) is a medical, historical, and family drama set at the fictional Alfredson Medical Center, a world-class clinic outside Seattle. Founded in the 19th century by Marshall Alfredson and Evan McGrath, the hospital has relied on the founders families ever since, and it s now approaching a crucial crossroads. William McGrath, the hospital s CEO, must battle a nasty infection rampaging through the wards. His cardiologist daughter, Erin, struggles to keep a traumatic experience from affecting her job. Her oncologist brother, Tyler, faces a malpractice suit after a risky procedure goes awry, and Tyler s medical researcher wife, Jill, discovers irregularities in her potentially groundbreaking study data that might spell the end of her academic career. All of this is brewing as the Alfredson family gathers for an unprecedented vote to determine the hospital s future. Kalla s medical experience doubtless informs the rigorous operating room scenes and the abrasive hospital politics, but while this should appeal to fans of medical TV dramas, the overdose of familiar coincidences, revelations, and personal demons makes this feel more like a rerun than a new episode.
