by Henry Denker · Salvat, editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434584914
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«Médicos» is the fiction novel by Henry Denker, published by Salvat Editores in paperback (350 pages, in Spanish).
A young American doctor faces a negligence lawsuit after treating a newborn who is left with permanent brain damage. The narrative combines the hospital and the courtroom to raise the ethical dilemmas of medical practice and the difficulty of judging clinical decisions when the outcome is adverse.
Part of the Novela y Ocio Collection, no. 24. Originally published as Physicians in 1975; this Spanish edition includes a translation by Alicia Nélida Bixio.
A read for fans of medical dramas and stories of negligence trials.
Henry Denker was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He began his career as a radio and television writer, and is credited as the originator and writer of what he described as the first television series ever produced, False Witness, broadcast on NBC-TV in 1939. He wrote the first script for the religious radio series The Greatest Story Ever Told, which won a special George Foster Peabody Citation in 1949. Of his 34 published novels, 17 were selected and published by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Six of his plays were produced on Broadway. Trained as a lawyer, Denker drew on his legal background throughout his prolific writing career across radio, television, theater, and fiction.
