Marilyn Benner Sowyak is one of the entertainment industry's top medical consultants. Her credits span twenty-five years and include Emmy winners: As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and Another World. Benner was the Medical Technical Advisor for Law & Order and was the Medical Coordinator for over twenty-one major feature films, including Godfather III, The Fisher King, Bonfire of the Vanities, and Home Alone – Lost In New York.
"I've become a master at creating medical stories and bringing them to life on the screen," Benner says. "It's time I told my own stories.”
Marilyn Benner Sowyak is a practicing Register Nurse who has worked in the Emergency Departments of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York Hospital Cornell, and Saint Vincent's Hospital, Orlando Regional Medical Center, and Carolinas Medical Center Main in Charlotte, North Carolina.
This book starts with a true-life snippet. I was standing at the nurse's station when a nurse friend approached me and asked if I heard what happened in the ICU last night. I said no. And she said, "Well. A patient bled to death while the nurse was on break, and homicide might charge her with murder. " I never knew the end of the story, but it was so horrifying I decided to write a novel about it - because it was every nurse's nightmare to have harm come to a patient entrusted to their care. Many of the other medical situations are true - from my almost five decades-long ER Nursing career.
"Nursing is a significant part of me, and I can't give it up. It is where real life happens. After work, I crawl into the world of
healing by writing and creating an imaginary world with imaginary people."
