Code Five

by Frank G. Slaughter

"Código cinco" es la expresión que señala el momento de máxima gravedad en un proceso quirúrgico de el paro cardiaco. Pero en el St. Luke's Hospital es la misma institución la que está al borde del colapso. Decrépitas las instalaciones, dividido el personal, las salas abarrotadas de enfermos que esperan cuidados que no reciben. Para el Dr. Jud Tyler la tarea será abrumadora. Llegará a arrepentirse de su decisión de volver a Framingham. A su lado, una serie de personajes diversos y caracterí el capellán Chuck Rogers; el superintendente del Hospital, Asa Ford; la bella y rica divorciada Samantha Fellowes, más preocupada por los médicos que por sus propias enfermedades; el negro Eric Cates, agradecido a los blancos que han hecho posible su educación; la enfermera Kathryn Galloway, cuya eficiencia oculta intimas frustraciones, y Angus Claiborne, el rey de los bajos fondos, el potentado que basa su fortuna en la miseria de los barrios humildes.

287 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies.

Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah "Sallie" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five years old, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina, which is west of Oxford, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

Books by Slaughter include The Purple Quest, Surgeon, U.S.A., Epidemic! , Tomorrow's Miracle and The Scarlet Cord. Slaughter died May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Reviews

[Sergio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Più belli e godibili i primi romanzi di Frank Slaughter, quelli degli anni '50 a sfondo storico: questo thriller di ambiente medico è mediocre