Marva’s Kindle Notes & Highlights for A Case of Need

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Argiris Arbis

1 note & 5 highlights

Arif Majed

1 note & 1 highlight

Lisa

6 notes & 6 highlights

Kathryn

1 note & 2 highlights

Elle

1 note & 15 highlights

Peggy Coquet

1 note & 1 highlight

Nancy

11 notes & 22 highlights

Phil

Rocky Sunico

Frances Heneghan

Mark Angell

Saswati Chakraborty

Jacqueline Gomez

Pavithran G

Melissa Overland

Larry Bassett

Leslie Lanagan

Joe

Lloyd Nethercutt

Tyson Blackburn

Anjali Singh

Jeff Brown

Ken Burian

Vanessa

Karthikeyan Mohan

Melissa

Rubin Goldbaum

WILLIAM KNICKERBOCKER

VANDANA RAMAN

Eva Wood

Anna

June Taft

Catherine

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A Case of Need

by Michael Crichton

Read between September 10 - September 24, 2018

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There is something compelling about open-heart surgery, something fantastic and fabulous, a mixture of dream and nightmare, all come true.

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Anita

Back in the early 1970s I watched Dr. "Ted” Diethrich (from an viewing room over the surgery) do an open heart surgery. Dream and nightmare makes sense to me. At one point he reached into the woman's …

12 Sep 18 · Flag

Marva

Anita: This struck me since I had open-heart surgery. While I was definitely "dead to the world" during it, the knowledge that my heart was stopped for a couple of hours and the surgeon put dacron and…

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Anita

Marva: As I remember it, there was cheering when that lady's heart began to beat again. Maybe the cheering was just going on in my head, but I remember it as audible from the operating room. I cannot …

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Society will only act out of fear and gross guilt. We are attuned to large figures; small statistics don’t impress us. Who’d give a damn if Hitler had only killed ten thousand Jews?”

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It was a waste...