the Fifth Vial (2007) by Michael Palmer

Author:Michael Palmer [Palmer, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-03-15T02:25:39.437000+00:00

Who would want to leave a world where this is possible? she asked herself. A backpack-sized mechanical lung might be just around the corner.

It took half an hour, but finally Natalie had an address for the hospital in the Botafogo section of Rio, and a phone number.

After considering, then rejecting, the notion of enlisting her mother's help in making the calls, Natalie looked up the country code for Brazil and the city code for Rio, and began dialing. Initially, her conversations were limited by lost connections while being transferred, as well as by her awkward Cape Verdean Portuguese. Little by little, though, her navigational skills improved. She made it to patient information, then to billing, to records, and even to security. An hour and fifteen minutes after she set the receiver down from her conversation with June Harvey, she finished an animated discussion with the director of the Santa Teresa record room, a woman named DaSoto, who actually spoke English - probably about as well as Natalie did Portuguese.

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