The Death Committee Author:Noah Gordon This novel is about three young doctors who live in the shadow of THE DEATH COMMITTEE. — The death committee is a tribunal of hospital doctors who sit in judgement on each other and on themselves. At these weekly Mortality Conferences, cases of death are reviewed to determine whether or not such deaths were preventable and if so, the reasons for... more » failure. Many a surgeon's career and future has been saved--or shattered--by the findings.« less