DNR: Do Not Resuscitate: A Novel

This Provocative Thriller Based on Actual Events, Captures the Dramatic Legal, Emotional and Ethical Conundrum Surrounding One of the Greatest Controversies in Medical History. End Quote

Through this novel, readers will be able to see the many facets surrounding the DNR issue through fictional characters.

(1888PressRelease) April 19, 2024 - BOSTON – DNR: Do Not Resuscitate: A Novel is a work of fiction based on conditions in large city hospitals as they existed in the 1970s and ’80s. During that period, patients who appeared brain-dead without any signs of recovery were left on mechanical ventilators and feeding tubes. They were treated to sustain life but at times lacked the dignity due to them as human beings. The American Medical Association’s code of medical ethics clearly states, “The ethical obligation to respect patient autonomy and self-determination requires that the physician respect decisions to refuse care.” But, a great conflict has arisen regarding the issue of not resuscitating patients who stop breathing independently or have no pulse.

The story also covers the widespread corruption in Boston during the 70s and 80s, through main character John West, the city’s fictional Commissioner of the Department of City Health Services. Despite being loved by the people of Boston during most of his time in office, toward the end, healthcare workers blamed him for a severe lack of funding – which was actually due to greedy and evil board members who overrode West’s decisions at the expense of patient care.

For more than 50 years, Author Geraldine M. McEachern was a registered nurse who personally witnessed and experienced the acute controversy. Her passion was providing her patients with attentive, compassionate care while spending quality time with them and developing personal connections that brought them comfort. For many years, she was a nurse manager in a Coronary Intensive Care Unit, an electrophysiology lab and a progressive care unit in a Level 1 trauma hospital. Prior to her retirement in January 2022, she served as Director of Case Management in a designated COVID-19 hospital.

McEachern commented, “Through this novel, readers will be able to see the many facets surrounding the DNR issue through fictional characters. The topic has remained controversial to this day.”

Now her story is being told through this fictional work, her first novel, from SDP Publishing – available through SDP Publishing, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other major retailers.

About the Author – Geraldine M. McEachern was a registered nurse for more than 50 years. Her passion was in providing exceptional bedside care to patients, where she could spend quality time and make personal connections that brought comfort to those she tended. She was a nurse manager for many years in a Coronary Intensive Care Unit, an electrophysiology lab, and a progressive care unit in a Level 1 trauma hospital. Prior to her retirement in January 2022, she was director of Case Management in a designated COVID-19 hospital. DNR is her debut novel.

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