Savannah Drake would be thrilled about starting her final year of medical school if it weren’t for one thing: she has to spend a month working in the emergency room with cold, aloof Dr. Wesley Kent as her mentor. When her first day in the ER proves to be a humiliating disaster, Savannah is ready to swear off emergency medicine forever. Gradually, though, she finds that the unpredictable, … emotional experience of caring for patients in the emergency room is affecting her far differently than she expected – and Dr. Kent turns out to be anything but the arrogant attending physician that she assumed him to be. But just when Savannah finally admits to herself that she is falling for Dr. Kent, she learns that things at the hospital are not all what they seem. Faced with a seemingly impossible choice, Savannah must decide between her future career and everything that she has come to care so much about.
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This was a quick and easy read. There was much more substance to it than a typical romance, and it was well read. I really loved to see the life of a medical student doing an ER rotation. It reminded me a lot of Grey’s Anatomy where you have the love story embedded in the hospital scenes.
Love at Lakewood Med, by T.J. Amberson, is an enjoyable story of a fourth-year medical student, Savannah, and her month-long experience in the required ER rotation. The fun, romance, and suspense begin right at the beginning of the book with a mad dash to the hospital with an ensuing accident that nearly shatters her cell phone and a chance encounter with the attending physician, Doctor Kent–please call me Wes, she has to work with for the next month. The story moves quickly and keeps the reader’s interest with romantic triangle type tension as the handsome hunk of a resident, Erik, is introduced into the mix as well as Monica, Wes’s long-time girlfriend, somewhat catty and green-eyed perhaps? Lots of fun adventures and some drama unfold as there is a hospital politics side to the story too. The author seems to have done her homework in regards to the medical side of the story as the scenarios were realistic. As an RN, I enjoyed all the chaos and humor of the patients and situations portrayed. The book is a quick read and readers won’t want to put it down. I read it in one sitting and am hoping there may be more to these characters in a sequel.
I won the book in a contest and was not required to write a review. The opinions are my own.
Absolutely loved it and wish for more like it!
LOVE AT LAKEWOD MED by TJ Amberson is a great medical love story.
It’s the story of Savannah (Sav) Drake’s final year of medical school. She is working a month rotation in the emergency room with Dr. Wesley (Wes) Kent as her mentor.
Everything seems to be going wrong for her from day one and in Sav’s mind just kept getting worse. There was her blow up at the bakery in front of Dr. Kent, insulting the way Dr. Kent ran the emergency room to only find out he more than likely overheard, telling him the wrong size for an endotracheal tube, submitting her assignment late, sending the wrong patient home with a prescription he didn’t need, leaving her shift to go home because she got emotional over some patients, and then being masterminded to speak at a function that is against Dr. Kent and all his work to improve the ER.
The road to Sav’s ER rotation is definitely a bumpy one. She even manages to fall off a cliff during what was meant to be a fun weekend event severely injuring herself. She ends up being on the other end of the stethoscope in Lakewood Med ER department after being rescued by Wes.
Sav thinks she’d like to be dating Erik Prescott, who she perceives as a Greek God. She couldn’t possible like emotionless Dr. Kent who has as much personality as a cardboard box. Besides, he has a girlfriend in DC.
Sav manages to save her dignity and stand up for what’s right during her “speech” and ends up seeing that a wrong is righted with a whole new ER building to be built.
Sav starts off thinking she wants to go into pediatrics, but slowly finds she actually loves the intensity and feelings she gets from the emergency room. Helping folks like advocating for an elderly woman on a walkway stretcher, running resuscitation on a septic infant, showing humanity to Amy Nichols who was so badly abused by her husband and helping birth a baby in the hall to a lady who had no idea she was pregnant all lead her to the realization that she wants to be an emergency room doctor. All along the way, she also finds out that she’s very attractived to Wes. Now that he’s not he attending any longer, maybe there is a happily ever after for them.
TJ Amberson was a new author to me, but she definitely won’t be now. I’m hoping this is just the first book of a series. I’d love to see how Sav and Wes’s story unfolds as well as her best friend, Danielle and Joel’s story and other medical school students too.
I would recommend this book to anyone that loves a great love story. I will say that when I first started reading it I was wondering if the medical terminology would leave me stranded in the ER, but I found out very fast that it wasn’t hard to read at all. In fact, I love the technological aspect to make it all the more authentic.