Cutdown* is a thrilling look into behaviors that can and do happen beyond the public eye in American hospitals. Centered in and around Los Angeles and other parts of California, Detroit, and Las Vegas, Registered Nurse Audrey Campbell is entrapped in a terrifying scheme, plummeting the experienced but socially naive nurse from heights of excellence to depths of hidden malevolence.
Most events in Cutdown are based on earlier realities, a chilling forecast of technological, educational, and practice downtrends that have diminished the quality of both medical and nursing care as delivered and experienced today. Cutdown is a warning to healthcare practitioners as well as their present and future patients.
*A cutdown is a medical procedure to access an otherwise inaccessible vein for emergency fluid and/or medication delivery. It also describes what can happen to an individual under unmanageable stress.