BloodBird
When the organ is not the only thing transplanted
(Dangerous Doctors Series of medical fiction)" by Dimitri Markov.
Karolene Kreisler is a medical researcher in an ethical bind. Haunted by doubts about pushing the limits of human transplantation, she herself now needs a sight-saving organ, and is forced to face her own desperate needs. An experimental transplant seems life saving, once a donor "miraculously" becomes available. Soon thereafter, Karolena develops an unusual ability to "see" events, past and future, driving her to the truth behind high income business ventures at her hospital, a truth that may cost her life. The action of BloodBird takes place in the not too distant future, giving the reader a glimpse of what daily life, medical research and medicine could soon be like for us all.
BloodBird is a member of the Dangerous Doctors Series, which also includes : Her Charm Was Contagious, Surrogate and Vera Mortina.
FirsThought Scientific, Inc.
Northwest of Neuse, North Carolina
Sunrise passed unnoticed, its dull orange essence remaining well-hidden from all life below. On this damp North Carolina morning, it seemed that all life's occurrences happened in an odd kind of time-delay, and long hours would pass before the fog could dissipate, slower and much later than usual. Until then, the entrapped moisture managed to grip the pungent odor of industrial pollution near its ground level origin, poisoning the morning's beauty. This late in the year, the chemical stench typically stayed sequestered near a small algae-choked pond, but on this day the pond force-fed its thick green sludge into the mouth of a small artificial creek which cruelly cut a jagged, toxic pattern through the heart of FirsThought Scientific.
Close by that creek, Karolena Kreisler, a thirty-two year old research physician, stood once again motionless, as if paralyzed by a physical ailment rather than by the spiritual indecision that gripped her as she starred searching for answers through the murky gray fog obscuring the vast industrial reserve of FirsThought.
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