The patient Susan likes also ends up in a coma. As he is rushed off to Operating Room 8, Susan heads off to finish rounds with the other four interns and Dr. Shortly after this visit, Susan is called to administer an IV for a male patient who she turns out to have “chemistry” with and they decide to meet for dinner after he recovers from surgery. Why is Nancy in this state? What happened to her? What can be done to prevent this from ever happening? How could this happen? Asking many questions, she finds out that most of the Doctors at the hospital have disconnected their feelings, and treat patients more as objects than people, especially those in Nancy’s state. Susan is bothered, and more than a bit intrigued how a 23 year old healthy woman (Susan is also 23) can end up in this state. Even though she is brain dead, the job of the Doctors at Boston Memorial is to keep her alive by balancing her fluid intake, and fighting any infections that may come along. The new interns, during the course of their first set of rounds, visit Nancy who has been in a coma for about a week. The patient, 23 year old Nancy Greenly, ends up in a coma for no apparent reason. “Coma” opens with a minor surgery gone terribly wrong in Operating Room 8. Bellows who stupidly runs away, but, it shows that Susan is not one to sit around and take what is forced upon her.
In doing so, she walks in on her new boss, Dr. Susan promptly takes the bull by the horn and walks into the Doctor’s changing area to grab some scrubs.
At Boston Memorial, the only place Susan can change into her surgical garb is in the Nurses area (not that that is bad, but, the Doctor’s changing room is Men only…how backward). Susan, being doubly handicapped by being both smart and beautiful, has had to work extra hard to gain respect and recognition. Unfortunately, for Susan, women in medicine, at least when this book was written, were not very well respected. The transition from Student to Doctor is not easy, but, the group of students selected for the Surgery Intern program at Boston Memorial Hospital are very qualified and the most likely to succeed. Nearing the 30 th anniversary of the publication of “Coma” this is still an amazing book.Īfter years of book learning, third year medical student, Susan Wheeler, is just embarking on the practical aspects of Med School. If you are going in for a minor operation, stay away from Operating Room 8.
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