The Surgeon
The operation starts in an hour. Elias remembers his patient dying. In Boston, Elias Cormier knows the steps, the checks, and the decisions awaiting him in the operating room. He also carries another operation: the one this woman did not survive. Nothing entitles him to treat his memory as a medical finding. Nothing makes it easy to forget.
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The anesthesiologist, Rebecca Hsu, came in with an empty cup and stopped when she felt the temperature of the room.Read the excerpt ↗