
The Death Committee
By Noah Gordon
1969
First Published
3.51
Average Rating
413
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At Suffolk County General Hospital, three brilliant young men are brought together by their ambition and passionate dedication to life. But they work in the shadow of the Death Committee, a formidable hospital tribunal where doctors sit in judgment of their peers, deciding who is to blame when a death could have been prevented. During an unforgettable year of love and fear, failure and victory, the young doctors must face the crucial dramas and triumphs of hospital life.
Avg Rating
3.51
Number of Ratings
2,021
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Noah Gordon
Author · 10 books
Noah Gordon was an American novelist. Some of the topics covered within his novels include medical history and medical ethics. More recently he had begun to focus more on themes relating to the Inquisition, and Jewish cultural history. His novel Shaman won the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1993. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.