New Book Combines Medicine, Murder, and Vaccines in “The DNR Trilogy”
KONA, Hawaii (PRWEB) July 16, 2018 -- Dr. Don W. Hill was in medical school when brutal violence and crime was occurring around the Texas Medical Center, where he was receiving his doctoral education. While attending an international cancer symposium, he also overheard two women in the medical field discussing an act of violence that they got away with against a prisoner who was hospitalized. These dramatic stories and occurrences left such an impression on Hill that they would later become a part of his new medical suspense trilogy.
In “The DNR Trilogy: Volume 1: Backing the Wrong Primate,” Hill chronicles the story of J.D. Brewster and the tragic and dehumanizing events he witnessed during his time in medical school. Brewster later reflects on these events in his memoir and how they lead to the demise of his career and morality.
Such events chronicled in the fictional story include brutal violence against a beloved nurse, the planned death by hospital staff of a criminal patient and more, both of which are pulled from past real-life events and scenarios in the author’s medical career.
“Over the course of my career, I have seen many strange and wonderous events that ran through the entire spectrum of the human experience,” Hill said. “I ended up writing the novel after all those years when a weekend trip became the plot point around my novel that I could no longer ignore.”
In “The DNR Trilogy: Volume 1: Backing the Wrong Primate,” readers will be on the edge of their seats as the medical thriller comes to a shocking cliffhanger: Will Nurse Segulla survive?
“The DNR Trilogy: Volume 1: Backing the Wrong Primate”
By: Don W. Hill, M.D.
ISBN: 978-1-4808-5825-1 (sc); 978-1-4808-5826-8 (hc); 978-1-4808-5824-4 (e)
Available at the Archway Publishing Online Bookstore, Barnes and Noble and Amazon
About the Author
A native of Houston, Donald W. Hill, MD, FACP, graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, in 1978. After completing his medical school training at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1982, Dr. Hill completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine, hematology, and oncology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1987. At the time that he composed this novel, Dr. Hill had completed thirty years of medical practice that included working in multispecialty clinics, solo practice, and everything in between, including academia and clinical research. As a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Hill is a published scholar but this is his first attempt at a work of fiction. Although approaching the end of his medical career, Dr. Hill was still in practice in Hawaii when he crafted this novel. A self-described angry man safely nestled behind a superficial, amiable facade of banality, Dr. Hill felt compelled to write this novel in an attempt to make peace with God, the universe, and the practice of medicine. Only time will tell whether these lofty objectives have been achieved. For more about the author, please visit http://www.drdonwhill.com/.
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