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The passion for life (and its deferential submission)” 5/9/2007 5:10:09 AM
As an emergency room physician, I have been intimately involved in the medical struggle to assure the best physical and mental outcome for the patient I attend to. In the 23 years of my career, I have witnessed a palette of emotions by which these patients approach their trials and tribulations. From this palette, I drew the passions that inspired the characters in Cry WaterColors.
In analysis of a crippling illness or accident, it is so often said that the condition “beats the alternative (referring to death).” As the attending physician, deeply involved in the struggle to assure the best medical outcome, I have often asked “what if I was in their shoes?” In many situations, would death not be deferential? As this is a very personal decision, I have challenged the protagonist in Cry WaterColors with making a decision between “the quality of life” and the debilitation attempting to sustain “life at all cost.” In the pursuit of medical care, at what point is the sanctity of life compromised?
Excerpt:At seven, supposedly too young to experience desperation, Mark challenged his confusion. In the silence of his darkened room, he firmly held the point of the knife against his belly. From the pit it made, pressed against his flesh, he felt the warm trickle of blood….. (Prelude)
