Code Blue

Shocking true stories from a place you thought was safe -- your hospital: Twenty years after surviving cervical cancer, a Michigan woman is admitted to the hospital with complications. The doctor accidentally severs an artery and the woman dies. Obstetric residents use forceps removing a newborn from a New Jersey mother. But in so-doing tear pubic tissue, leaving the woman in diapers for the rest of her life. A man is anesthetized but conscious as medical professionals operate on his appendicitis. He realizes he can't breathe, but can't say anything, can't even move. Only just before he blacks out does the nurse notice the man's weakening vital signs and takes steps to revive him. He lives to report the incident, and report it he does. The man's name: Walter Cronkite.Moroson, Harold is the author of 'Code Blue' with ISBN 9780312975104 and ISBN 0312975104.