Description

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New Orleans' Charity Hospital provides the setting for the horror and humor that transforms one of the first women surgeons from a na ve southern girl into a competent woman surgeon.

About the Author

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Martha B. Boone is a private practice Urologist in an Atlanta suburb. She obtained her surgical training at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. She was one of the first one hundred women urologists in the world. The Big Free is her first published work of fiction and combines medical humor and historical fiction in an urban hospital.