Another Excerpt from my newest, “Venoms”
In 1971, Max King is the new president of the Intern-Resident Association at LA County Hospital. A nurse there, Mary Francis, asks for his help following the mysterious disappearance of her husband, Mike, an infectious disease fellow and protégé of Franklin Delano Rousseau (FDR), a famous faculty member at USC who specializes in venomous snakes. Max agrees to help.
In this chapter, Max’s colleague tells him about the 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel, an effort by President Nixon’s campaign team to bug the phones at Democratic headquarters.
an Excerpt From “Stone Mother”
The final installment of a medical trilogy, Stone Mother refers to the old Los Angeles County Hospital.
On entering residency training, a married couple carry their 1960s activism into the ‘70s. They struggle to balance overwhelming responsibilities with their ideals, attempting to reform the “system,” but ultimately it is their personal lives that suffer.