Best Selling Books by Morton Thompson

Powerful novel about a young doctor who lives for medicine and sacrifices everything for his career. Describes his years at medical school, his practice in a small town and his devoted self-sacrificing wife who works to make their marriage a success.

Historical fiction. Based on the life of Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian-Hungarian physician known for his research into puerperal fever and his advances in medical hygiene. In the novel he struggles to prove to his fellow doctors that if they would only wash their hands, they would save the lives of many mothers. Semmelweis saw a link between hand washing and disease before the discovery of germs. His discovery was ignored by his colleagues to the detriment of their patients.

Lucas Marsh, un estudiante de medicina ambicioso pero falto de dinero, se casa con la enfermera de quirófano Kristina Hedvigson para que pague sus estudios y así poder finalizar su carrera. Kristina está enamorada de Lucas pero él sólo ama a su profesión. Lucas es una persona cerrada que no se abre ni siquiera a su mejor amigo o a su padre alcohólico. Cuando termina su carrera se establece en una pequeña ciudad donde trabajará bajo las órdenes del doctor Runkleman y continuará con sus devaneos amorosos con una mujer de clase social alta. Un fatal error hará que tenga que replantearse su comportamiento y cambiar su actitud vital y profesional.