Savvy and seductive third year medical student, Susan Wheeler has just started working at the Boston Memorial Hospital when, on her first ward round she falls for a patient about to head into the OR for surgery. Little did she know that her all too brief conversation with the dreamy patient was to be her last, as, like too many other patients at the Memorial, he falls into a coma during surgery.
Something isn't right, Susan just knows it - and it's not her overly active womanly emotions leading her astray (though she does consider this; the ever-present conundrum - am I simply a woman or a doctor? hmmm...). Unfortunately for Susan, every medial head of unit (including the doctor tasked with babysitting the med students) thinks Susan is a woman - I mean, she has curves! and is cute! So how can she possibly be taken seriously by any of the dinosaur male chauvinistic pigs running the place! In their wise eye's she's trouble.
In a book where an attempted rape is warranted because the intended victim gives off vibes of wanting 'it', where woman's rights are nonexistent, where too many patients are comatose following surgery, and where a secret state funded facility is purpose built to house said comatose patients, there's little reality to the horror/thriller story - so, don't take it too seriously. Much of the premise is laughable and won't appeal to many readers in this day and age, however, taken for what it is - I had a lot of fun - if not for the sheer audacity of the portrayal of Susan's character and the cookie cutter males who interacted with her. This is another worthy entry into the annals of the paperbacks from hell!
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