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San Diego Physician Pens Medical Thriller

"Doing Harm," medical thriller by San Diego physician Dr. Kelly Parsons.
St Martin's Press
"Doing Harm," medical thriller by San Diego physician Dr. Kelly Parsons.
San Diego Physician Pens Medical Thriller
San Diego Physician Pens Medical Thriller GUEST:Kelly Parsons, M.D., MHS, associate professor of surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine, author of "Doing Harm"

You'd think being a practicing doctor and a teacher would take up too much of your time to write a well-received first novel. But apparently San Diego doctor Kelly Parsons somehow found the time. His novel is a medical thriller that's been praised by author Steven King and optioned for a motion picture.

"Doing Harm" is about a killer on the loose at Boston's University Hospital. It tells the reader that there are many ways to die in a hospital but being sick is just one of them.