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When his license is suspended for failing to report a gunshot wound, former plastic surgeon Dr. Webb Smith gets a job working the night shift in an all-night medical clinic while he waits out his suspension
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This promising first novel takes a hard-hitting look at the unsavory side of modern medicine as it charts the moral dilemmas of a committed surgeon who bucks an unresponsive health care system. Like his marriage, Webb Smith's career as a Los Angeles plastic surgeon is in ruins, thanks to an unopened vial of cocaine found in his desk, an unwanted gift forced on him by a patient. His license suspended, Smith treats strep throats and hemorrhoids at Instantcare, a seedy 24-hour clinic. In attending to a boy stabbed by his coke-addicted prostitute mother, Smith, his convictions challenged, will again violate statutes and further imperil his license. His personal life is at loose ends, too, as he embarks on a love affair with Jessica, an insecure jazz pianist, and helps Joe, his only friend, cope with terminal cancer. Burton, a California neurologist, writes with surgical precision about the marketing practices, exorbitant costs and unnecessary operations that blot the practice of medicine. The operating-room scenes are wrenching.
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