The Six-Liter Club

In The Six-Liter Club, we revisit a time during the 1980s when there were still many personal-and professional-barriers to be broken for women and minorities. In 1983, Camille Weller, MD, is the first Black female in history to attain the status of attending staff at Medical College of Virginia. She is gritty, sexy, and used to excelling over her male colleagues. She was orphaned as a child, born in Africa, but raised by a white aunt in the racially charged South of the 1970s. She is a trauma surgeon and enters the prestigious Six-Liter Club on her first day on the job (a sparsely populated -club- of surgeons who have managed to save a patient who sheds six liters of blood and still survives). But Camille has difficulties with intimacy. She is troubled by recurrent flashbacks from her youth (growing up in the Congo as a child of an American missionary and Congolese mother) during the Simba Rebellion in the Congo. She becomes convinced by a counselor that she was abused by her father. In the end, Camille realizes that her father saved her, didn-t abuse her, and the truth opens the way for her to begin to accept the faith of her missionary father, as well as to learn to accept intimacy in relationships. Subplots abound, including the dramatic way her father saved her from the Simba rebels (a mirror of the Passover) and Camille-s campaign to NOT recommend a mastectomy for every case of breast cancer, a very controversial point among doctors in the 1980s.


Genre: Inspirational