First, Do No Harm

Summary

I once believed that a doctor’s oath, our "benevolent heart," would be met with a patient’s gratitude.

I fought with everything I had to pull Sarah Miller back from the brink of an amniotic fluid embolism. I saved her life, and her baby’s life.

The surgery was a success. Mother and daughter were stable.

I never imagined that this life-saving act would, in turn, become the knife aimed straight at my own heart.

Days after her discharge, she and her family launched a vicious online assault against me.

"This butcher-doctor ruined my life!"