Name: The Quiet Dose
SKU: 69143679
Price: 347.00 ZAR
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Author: Hn Bazaar;Roberto Carcamo
ISBN: 9798175473439

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The Quiet Dose

Hn Bazaar;Roberto Carcamo (Author) · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · Physical Book

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Synopsis "The Quiet Dose"

In the pediatric wards and small examination rooms of late 1970s and early 1980s Texas, danger did not arrive with an alarm. It arrived as another emergency, another chart entry, another child whose sudden collapse could be explained away as illness. The Quiet Dose follows the documented case of Genene Jones through the families who carried children into care, the nurses who noticed that something was wrong, the administrators who faced an impossible professional risk, and the investigators who had to reconstruct a pattern after the system had already taught itself not to see one. In San Antonio, pediatric crises accumulated behind institutional language. In Kerrville, the same terror surfaced in a clinic where routine visits became medical emergencies. The question was not only what happened in the treatment rooms. It was how many warnings a hospital could absorb before protecting itself became indistinguishable from protecting the truth. Built from public records, testimony, contemporaneous reporting, and the limits of what can be proven, this is a survivor centered account of harm enabled by hierarchy, uncertainty, professional loyalty, and the human need to believe that a place built to heal could not also become the place where a child was lost.