Carol Cassella Doctor, mother, and novelist

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Author Biography

Carol Cassella is a practicing anesthesiologist and novelist.
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Influences

As a mother (two sets of twins!) I would have to put my children on the top of the list of what influences my writing. Once I had children, everything else about my life and, indeed about the world, took on a more profound degree of meaning and vulnerability. I'm also very influenced by my work as a doctor. Being a physician allows me to be at least transiently close to people I would never otherwise meet. It has made me intimately aware of how quickly a life can be taken or saved.

Medical Mystery of a Heart Broken

Date of Review:

06/29/2008

Published Work:

Oxygen

Reviewer:

Robin Vidimos

Source:

The Denver Post

Review Excerpt:

Anesthesiologist Carol Cassella is obviously at home in the medical world that houses her vibrant debut, "Oxygen." And it isn't until the last quarter of the book that readers realize they're looking at a finely crafted mystery, as well as a sparkling literary work.

"Oxygen" is the work of a writer who is in full command of her craft. In lesser hands, the story could have bogged in medical minutiae, but Cassella never loses sight of the fact that stories are most compelling when they are about people.