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The Oath by John Lescroart (Find this book in our catalog)
Called “scalpel-sharp� by one reviewer, this medical thriller takes a look at how each of a group of doctors at Parnassus, a struggling San Francisco HMO, manages, or not, to live up to the Hippocratic Oath. Attorney Dismas Hardy must prevent Dr. Eric Kensing from being arrested for the murder of Kensing’s boss, Tim Markham, the CEO of Parnassus. Markham, in ICU following a hit-and-run, died not of his injuries but of a potassium overdose given to him in his IV. Kensing, the attending physician in ICU, had a motive to kill Markham, who was having an affair with his wife. Kensing and Markham had also clashed regularly over the penny-pinching care administered to Parnassus patients. To protect his client, Hardy must find a suspect with a better motive and opportunity for murder, and in his search discovers that Markham is actually the 12th person to have been killed recently while in the Parnassus ICU. Hardy must put himself in danger before the killer is exposed.

Labels: John Lescroart, medical mysteries, medical thrillers, Oath