![]() San Diego Eye & Laser Center at SHARP Memorial Hospital. Mom of 2, Proud Wife of Phx PD, ND farm gal loves her big city, Origami Owl Direct to Corporate Senior Director Mother/Daughter team ID 1001. Christine Stevens Funny lady, writer of satire and sex, proud Californian. ![]() All in all, it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. View Kristen Stevens profile on LinkedIn, the worlds largest. Doctor turned writer, coach, and people empower-er. It has quite a lot of great medical knowledge woven in, as well as a surprising amount of art history and information about scribes and papermaking. While this novel doesn’t incorporate the modern versus medieval elements quite as smoothly as some other timeslip novels, and it occasionally requires greater than the usual suspension of disbelief, it was still one of the most fun books I’ve read in a long time. Along the way, Beatrice is astonished to realize not only the truth about her brother’s research, but also that she is becoming more at home in the past than in the future. Although she thrives in Savannah, Georgia - despite its monstrous palmetto bugs, she is plotting another adventure. Exploring new places freed her from the expectations of her culture and showed her how intriguing and diverse life can be. During the course of following her brother’s academic investigation, Beatrice has a timeslip and falls into medieval Siena, à la Outlander, in 1347, just before the bubonic plague struck she has to rely on her knowledge of the future to survive. Vacations in Costa Rica, Japan and France ignited Kristine K. She travels to Siena and discovers that he was on the trail of an academic breakthrough which would explain why medieval Siena was hit so hard by the plague and failed to recover. The novel opens in modern New York where Beatrice Trovato, a neurosurgeon, has recently learned that her brother, a medieval scholar based in Siena, has unexpectedly died and left his home and research to her. ![]() Admittedly, I have a morbid fascination with it, but I am still selective in what I read and expect that to be well-written and well-researched. In her debut novel, Winawer scratches one of my literary itches: plague! There is rather a shortage of decent novels about the Black Death, in my opinion. ER scribes work in emergency room settings and support physicians during patient consultations. Since early reports of their introduction into the emergency room, 1,2 scribes have become a common feature across the US health system.
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