Code Five

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Description for CODE FIVE by Frank G Slaughter: "Code Five!"Is the almost universal term for cardiac arrest--the gravest of all hospital emergency situations."Code five!" Is the cr y which introduces Dr. Jud Tyler to St. Luke's Hospital--and the words might stand for the hospital itself. Overcrowded, understaffed, St. Luke's is a veritable dumping ground for all the city's charity cases--a place where medical ethics are lost or forgotten, where a rich woman's sexual hunger can raise havoc, and politics counts for more than the patient's lifes. Show more