The oppressive atmosphere of a neurosurgery department

As part of this novel is the neurosurgery department of La Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris milieu the author knows, being neurologist himself. The team consists of Vadas, the aggregate of the service, specializing in surgery of the spinal cord. There is a reference in the world, one of the few French surgeons who received the offer of a chair in the United States and the only one to have refused. It is clever but mute and hates teaching. There also Debrelle, boss, much less talented but more political, Gonzaga, arrogant Clinical Director, Weiss, the psychiatrist, and Ganate, internal second major competition of the boarding, a workaholic.

This is the time of the great guard. The warning signs are alarming: Pierre shakes hands, his muscles are tense, he's tired, not focused enough. He shivers and sweats. At five in the morning comes an emergency. Hematoma of the brain stem in a young man of 22, gunshot wound. Peter is exhausted sleep. The intervention begins shortly after Vadas and goes out to see the MRI scan images. Peter alone on the field. The drama unfolds at this time. Exhaustion, jealousy, lack of concentration, lack, everything is intertwined until the fatal error.

A good novel that shows the tension in the operating room, the power relations in an emergency department, the relentless pace of a hospital and the consequence of a moment of inattention or a misguided gesture that measure to the millimeter.