by Henry Denker · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422613558
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«Error de diagnóstico» is the medical fiction novel by Henry Denker, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (377 pages, in Spanish).
A gynecologist confronts a prestigious surgeon when the latter issues a diagnosis he considers wrong for a young patient. The novel follows the consequences of that dispute in the hospital and explores the pride, vanity and ambition surrounding medical practice, where a mistake can put lives and careers at stake.
Original title: «Error of Judgment». Translation by Nora Watson. Spanish edition published in 1981.
For readers of fiction with plots involving ethical dilemmas, professional responsibility and hospital settings.
Henry Denker was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He began his career as a radio and television writer, and is credited as the originator and writer of what he described as the first television series ever produced, False Witness, broadcast on NBC-TV in 1939. He wrote the first script for the religious radio series The Greatest Story Ever Told, which won a special George Foster Peabody Citation in 1949. Of his 34 published novels, 17 were selected and published by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Six of his plays were produced on Broadway. Trained as a lawyer, Denker drew on his legal background throughout his prolific writing career across radio, television, theater, and fiction.
