Huffington Magazine Issue 15 | Page 55

HUFFINGTON 09.23.12 Preface A Note from Granta “The Perfect Code” in a hospital is as rare and as volatile as a perfect storm at sea. An announcement is made over the P.A. system, doctors and nurses and interns scramble, a human life hangs in the balance. This barbed and insightful view into emergency care — from the perspective of the doctor — is a bittersweet paean to the delicate harmonies which can rise, if only briefly, from the mess of hospitals and human bodies. Terrence Holt is a writer gifted with the lyricism of fellow medic William Carlos Williams and the pinpoint psychological accuracy of Patricia Highsmith. — John Freeman, Editor