Liana Sharp (pen name) is a physician turned author who brings her clinical experience to the page bearing witness to how medicine, the law and societal expectations intersect to impact female identity and agency.A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Liana Sharp practiced emergency medicine in Las Vegas before leaving the neon lights of the strip to provide medical care in rural underserved areas.When not writing or practicing medicine, you will usually find Liana underwater, where she trades the noise of the system for the quiet of the deep.
Standard of Care occupies the urgent, necessary space between Jennifer Haigh's unflinching realism and Margaret Atwood's speculative warnings—a medical thriller that examines what happens when healthcare itself becomes criminalized.
