First Do No Harm is 353 pages of nonfiction drama. It was written in 1992, but published in 1993 by The Random House Publishing Group. The novel is about the choice that many doctors and family member had to make regarding their ill family members. Many of these decisions were matters of life or death; others showed the truth behind the impact of money on hospitals. Beginning in 1988 the author Lisa Belkin witnessed the tragedies and miracles that took place within the Hermann Hospital walls. She wrote an inspiring book based on what she witnessed during the time that she as there. As Belkin wrote in the epilogue, “This book is about making choices-and living with them,” (Belkin, 1993, p.340). Everyone in this book had to make a choice that
