The Lazarus Strain
“The inquiry had straddled Christmas, which he had spent with his daughter Jenny and Richard and Susan and their children – a happy time although quickly overshadowed by the tsunami that hit the Far East on Boxing Day. Jenny had wanted to send her new bicycle to Thailand to make a child there happier.The investigation had proved quite straightforward in the end and although the surgical death rates were undoubtedly higher than in other comparable hospitals, examination of the dead children’s not...es had revealed the reason why. The head of paediatric surgery at the Victoria had real courage. Unlike so many of his contemporaries who always kept one eye on the statistical returns, Mr Cecil Digby FRCS, had taken on challenges that many other surgeons would have turned down and often agreed to operate on cases which were generally regarded as being too difficult or just plain hopeless. As a direct result of this, the death rate in his unit was much higher than the norm. Common sense dictated that it would be, but common sense didn’t show up in hospital returns; only numbers.MoreLess
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