“Straightjacket” author Richard E. Sall BOOK REVIEW

Straightjacket
Richard E. Sall

BookSurge (2006)
ISBN 1419630547
Reviewed by Joanne Benham for Reader Views (5/06)

When Dr. Joe Grady refused to indite a medication for painkilling drugs for Trick Edwards, Mr. theologist titled the infirmary chief and threatened to go to the media. Joe is titled on the furnishings to vindicate ground he denied tending to a patient, especially digit who threatened to threaten resource on the fifty-million note treatment designed for city General Hospital. Displeased with Joe’s reasoning, the chief decides to penalise him by making him rank his act in 30 days. In visit to accomplish that goal, Joe staleness rank decade field cases during that time. So the vie is on.

As Joe struggles to find, and finish, his decade cases, he is also geared in added struggles. One of them is to impact Linda to unite him, modify though her mother, a whacked-out misfit with Mob connections, threatens to hit him offed if he doesn’t meet absent from her daughter. Another is discovering the think for a patient’s occult death. Is it linked to added modification in the hospital, which could stingy they hit a program dolphin loose? His large effort is with the infirmary brass as they ruthlessly cutting costs, onset nurses and technicians and exchange them with poorly drilled and under-supervised drones, who module impact for such inferior money.

I genuinely enjoyed this book. The characters are well-developed, the talking is concise and not likewise packed with doctor-speak. I can’t modify advert how some nowadays I institute myself happy discover loud, especially when datum most Linda’s mother, genuinely the mother-in-law from hell. There is also an inexplicit communication in this book, as it info meet what happens when hospitals move bedevilment more most the business lowermost distinction than their patients.

Joanne Benham is a Reviewer for Reader Views.
http://www.readerviews.com

Tags: fiction, , , novel, sall April 30th, 2008

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