New book provides insider’s account of life in a major teaching hospital,

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New book provides insider’s account of life in a major teaching hospital, explores issues and ethics of life and death

What really happens behind the scenes at a hospital? In Riding a Crocodile (UWA Press, $26.99) Melbourne-based Professor & physician Paul Komesaroff AM that provides a fictionalised account into life in a major teaching hospital.

Told through a chilling detective story that explores issues and ethics of life and death with contemporary relevance, Riding a Crocodile follows a professor who becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him.

Riding a Crocodile is written by Professor Paul Komesaroff AM, a practising physician and philosopher at Monash University. His work is interdisciplinary: spanning clinical medicine, philosophy and ethical theory, clinical ethics and policy development. Paul’s international reputation in health care ethics and his major impact on the field of clinical ethics in Australia recently saw him become a State Finalist for the 2014 Australian of the Year. Riding a Crocodile is his first novel but he has previously published fourteen books, including Experiments in Love and Death, Objectivity, Troubled Bodies, and Pathways to Reconciliation.

Riding a Crocodile is a topical, thrilling and deeply thought-provoking novel.