Nothing Lasts Forever

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Nothing Lasts Forever ………Sidney Sheldon Synopsis: From one of the world's bestselling authors comes a compelling saga that readers will want to last forever. Centering around three young women doctors, their loves, dreams, and unexpected destinies, the story races from the life-and-death decisions of the operating room to the tension-packed fireworks of a murder trial. What cannot be cured with medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable. þHIPPOCRATES, CIRCA 480 B.C. There are three classes of human beings, men, women, and women physicians. þSIR WILLIAM OSLER. Prologue. San Francisco, Spring 1995. District Attorney Carl Andrews was in a fury. "What the hell is going on here?" he demanded. "We have three doctors living together and working at the same hospital. One of them almost gets an entire hospital closed down, the second one kills a patient for a million dollars, and the third one is murdered." Andrews stopped to take a deep breath. "And they're all women! Three goddam women doctors! The media is treating them like celebrities. They're all over the tube. 60 Minutes did a segment on them. Barbara Walters did a special on them. I can't pick up a newspaper or magazine without seeing their pictures, or reading about them. Two to one, Hollywood is going to make a movie about them, and theyll turn the bitches into some kind of heroines! I wouldn't be surprised if the government put their faces on postage stamps, like Presley. Well, by God, I won't have it!" He slammed a fist down against the photograph of a woman on the cover of lEme magazine. The caption read, "Dr. Paige TaylorþAngel of Mercy or the Devil's Disciple?" "Dr. Paige Taylor." The district attorney's voice was filled with disgust. He turned to Gus Venable, his chief prosecuting attorney. "I'm

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