But then, there began a slow measured clapping as the entire crew and even the anesthesiologist, acknowledged my initial surgical endeavor as lead surgeon. Leaving the OR I’m sure I was a foot taller than when I entered. My First Case, start to finish.
The well oiled OR team didn’t miss a beat. They dropped the clean up duties from the previous case, wheeled him in the trauma OR and prepped him for a left chest incision. My “sterile” scrub was a splash of soapy water and I was back in the OR, gowning and gloving.
They spoke whisperingly to each other rapidly and with impunity, ignoring me completely. How could these two know I understood every word? Both were oblivious to my listening as I studiously avoided looking in their direction.
Speeding, the corvette rounded the sharp corner, hit the curb and flipped. Skidding nearly thirty feet, it came to rest, upside down, with the unconscious driver hanging from his seatbelt. I witnessed the accident as it happened and was the first to stop at the wreck. I’m a surgeon, and as I ran toward the [...]
The frogs and cicadas were beginning their nightly serenade as the sun sank behind the tree line. White gingers sent their marvelously sweet fragrance wafting across the still water. The inhabitants of the four mansions surrounding our concealed anchorage were now beginning to congregate on their verandas, watching us.
Reilly Maginn's debut novel, BIO, a medical action thriller is a truly frightening tale of Jihadist bioterrorism. A story of weapons of mass destruction that could happen here in the US. Set in the south Pacific, a volunteer American physician/surgeon faces off against not only a deadly virus, but also the radical muslim terrorists who developed it. There is a fittingly appropriate conclusion. The novel is a real page turner and soon will appear on the big screen.
