The annual gathering of the Central Medical Association got under way with a fanfare of publicity that matched nothing so much as the opening of a national political convention. And in a way that's just what it was, for at the end of five days the members would choose a new president in an election that had become the focus of a bitter struggle between old guard physicians and the new breed of young doctors who wanted to make their profession more responsive to the needs of people. But as the campaign got under way in earnest, a grim accident that took the life of a prominent guest speaker made it all too clear that someone in the convention hall was interested in something far different from medical politics.... Combining all his skills as a writer with his expert knowledge of medical technology and the problems of modern medical practice, Frank Slaughter has produced a fast-paced novel that shows a side of the medical profession that the patient never sees _ this time including murder.
