A Case Of Needing: Serious Revisions
Beginning of paper
Michael Crichton has penned some of the most engaging, timely, and
thoroughly accessible tales to be published in the last twenty-five years. What
his novels lack in literary merit and distinctive style they make up for in
crisp plotting and edge-of-your-seat suspense. From alien viruses to regene ....
Middle of paper
.... be legal, not on whether or not doctors are currently
breaking the law by performing them.
The antiquated plot line is not the story's main flaw. The biggest
drawback here is a one-two punch of highly technical prose employed to relate a
thoroughly dull story. Karen Randall, the daughter of an eminent physician, dies
as the result of a botched abortion. Art Lee, a Chinese obstetrician, is accused
of performing the D & C that has resulted in her death. Though Lee is known to
be an abortionist ....
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Word count: 1994
Page count: 8 (approximately 250 words per page)
