The protagonist in this book (Jo March Bhaer) and that of The Number 1 Women's Detective Agency (Precious Ramotswe) both have a gentle wisdom that creates a gentle world around them. It is lovely to visit these worlds every so often.
I have now gone from the sublime to the scary: Charlatans by Robin Cook. So far it seems to be about the entitled attitude of some doctors...we will see. A patient has died in the operating room. The cause is a famous doctor who is trying to do three operations at once, demands that the anesthesia is started before he gets there, gets there 40 minutes after the anesthesia is started, and has obviously not prepared his patient we since the patient ate breakfast and then lied about it. He also obviously didn't examine him well before the operation because the problem was worse than he was prepared for. All of which it appears he is going to blame the anesthesiologist for.
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