Embolus — Gary A. Birken

Welcome to the trauma ward, a place of healing...

Death is a fact of life at the Gillette Trauma Center, a prestigious Washington, D.C., facility that gets more than its fair share of borderline cases. At some point the doctors have all seen a recovering patient suddenly slip away as the result of a pulmonary embolus--a fatal blood clot that can form after serious injury. But lately it's been happening with alarming frequency to patients of a certain Dr. Runyon...

...and harm

Journalist David Airoway has been investigating, and the trail has led him to a secretive society called the Caduceus Project that will stop at nothing to achieve its goals.

Now David is in a coma--at Gillette. The police think he tried to kill himself, but his sister, Alex, a surgeon at the hospital, is about toll learn that David had been making some very powerful enemies. It's up to her to expose the conspiracy--before Dr. Runyon takes care of her brother, too...