Live Cadaver: The True Story Of Kellee Kendell And Scandalous Treachery In The Medical Community

ISBN-13: 9780692257111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 232 str.

Kellee Kendell; Phyllis Marks Jd

Opis

SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY AWRY WITHIN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY. WHEN 36-YEAR-OLD KELLEE KENDELL DISCOVERED SHE HAD UTERINE FIBROIDS IN EARLY 2000, SHE WAS TOLD THERE WAS A PERFECT SOLUTION. HER GYNECOLOGIST REFERRED HER FOR AN "INVESTIGATIONAL" PROCEDURE CALLED UTERINE FIBROID EMBOLIZATION (UFE). THIS SET IN MOTION A COMBINATION OF EVENTS THAT WOULD BRING HER TO THE VERY BRINK OF DEATH. WHAT KELLEE WAS LED TO BELIEVE WOULD BE "A SIMPLE 24-HOUR OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE," TURNED INTO A RECURRING NIGHTMARE OF MULTIPLE EMERGENCY SURGERIES. SHOCKED BY THE SUDDEN LOSS OF HER HEALTH, SHE BEGAN TO ASK QUESTIONS FOR WHICH SHE COULD FIND NO ANSWERS. DETERMINED TO UNCOVER THE "WHYS?" OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HER, KELLEE EMBARKED ON AN UNRELENTING JOURNEY THAT WOULD LEAD TO THE SLEUTH-MINDED NURSE-ATTORNEY, PHYLLIS MARKS. TOGETHER, THEY WOULD UNCOVER THE AWFUL TRUTH BEHIND THREE DOCTORS, AND THE BOTCHED-UP UFE THAT HAD LEFT KELLEE'S BODY MAIMED AND MUTILATED.