The End of Healing: A Journey Through the Underworld of American Medicine - Softcover

Bailey Dr, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985420391 ISBN 13: 9780985420390

Publisher: Healthy City, 2017

Synopsis

The End of Healing

WINNER OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SILVER AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTION.

For readers of Atul Gawande, Abraham Verghese, and Paul Kalanithi, the gripping story of a young doctor confronting his own demons on a journey through the healthcare underworld to uncover the roots of corruption in American medicine and find true healing. This remarkable novel will change your perspective on the U.S. medical system forever...and give you the insight you need to find real healing in today s world. Illustration, syllabus, and reading guide included.

A looming menace lurks within the towers of American medicine. One young doctor is determined to uncover the truth. Follow him on a journey you will never forget.

Don Newman, a resident physician at the renowned University Hospital, awakens to the screams of his pager in a windowless call room in the middle of the night. He runs to a dark ward to attend to a dying woman strapped to a bed and realizes despite working long and hard to become a doctor and having sworn to do no harm harm has become his business.

So begins Dr. Newman s quest to find true healing in a world that puts profits ahead of patients. He abandons his plans to become a cardiologist and enrolls in an Ivy League graduate program in health system science, where an unorthodox professor promises to guide him ever deeper into the dark secrets of the healthcare industry. Don joins fellow students the alluring Frances Hunt, a sharp nurse practitioner, and Bruce Markum, a cocky, well-connected surgeon on a journey through the medical underworld. When Dr. Newman unearths evidence of a conspiracy stretching from the halls of Congress to Wall Street and even to his small campus, his harmless course of study becomes deadly serious. Will he be silenced? Or will he find a way to save himself and the patients he has sworn to serve?

Jim Bailey pulls back the exam room curtain to reveal a giant healthcare industry spiraling out of control. This literary tour de force resonates with core themes of classical literature, medical history, and science. The End of Healing gives voice to victims of our dysfunctional healthcare system and those launching a national movement to reclaim health care that heals.

JIM BAILEY is a physician and professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, where he directs the Center for Health System Improvement, cares for the sick, and teaches doctors in training. His research appears in many peer-reviewed medical journals, including JAMA, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Bailey has an abiding passion for the classics, medical history, and ethics, and believes that sharing our stories can heal.

To learn more, visit EndofHealing.com.

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Review

Jim Bailey s brilliant novel narrates the journey of a young healer into the depths of a modern healthcare hell that parallels the path taken by Dante Alighieri through his Inferno 700 years ago. His young protagonist uncovers unsuspected corruption at the roots of the problems in American medicine and powerful business interests trading people s health for profit. The End of Healing is a must read for anyone hungry for a spiritual context to help them understand the true forces at work in American healthcare and our path to a better future. Phyllis Tickle, founding religion editor, Publishers Weekly

"...an outstanding read that is as thoughtful and thought-provoking as it is fully engaging from beginning to end. A riveting read that is highly recommended for community library collections... Midwest Book Review

A fascinating and entertaining novel that could easily serve as a text book for an introductory health policy course. Max Michael, MD, Dean, UAB School of Public Health

...a wild ride into the underworld of medicine....Highly enjoyable thriller. An excellent page turner. Cynthia Lea Clark, Psy D, FMAM Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine

The End of Healing takes us deep into the world of health care s injustices and distortions....All of us are served by Bailey s extraordinary diligence and artful weaving of facts and painful epiphanies into a familiar story. John D. Goodson, MD, Harvard Medical School, SGIM Forum

This is a splendid book...Using dialogue and skillful portrayals of characters and situations...the author portrays a health-care system spiraling out of control, one that puts profits, power and prestige ahead of patients. That part, alas, is not fiction. Joe Vanderveer, MD, editor, The Oslerian

In the muckraking style of Upton Sinclair, Dr. Jim Bailey has written a modern-day The Jungle, but it s the healthcare industry under the microscope. Everything you never wanted to know about the skewed practices of health insurance, medicine for profit, and doctors who have lost sight of their healing mission come to bear in Bailey s heavy-hitting fictionalized account of a story you know is happening this very minute in America. Felicia Seeburger, FOREWORD Reviews

The End of Healing offers in fictional form a tour de force on the American healthcare system. Richard Thomas, Ph D, author, Marketing Health Services

"An absolutely fascinating new read by author Jim Bailey,...this story will captivate readers from the very start. Tracy A. Fisher, Readers Favorite Book Reviews

The End of Healing is a remarkable book. Don Donaldson, author, The Memory Thief

The book [has been] compared to works by Dan Brown and John Grisham and yes, there s a little of each author in the novel s conspiratorial subplots. Leonard Gill, The Memphis Flyer

This is a powerful book....dare to open this tome, read the first page and you re hooked. Bookloons

One of the most engrossing and engaging books I have read in a long time. Mary Ann Smyth, Bitten by Books

--Phyllis Tickle, The Midwest Book Review, Max Michael, Cynthia Lea Clark, John D. Goodson, Joe Vanderveer, Felicia Seeburger, Richard Thomas, Tracy A. Fisher, Don Donaldson, Leonard Gill, Bookloons, Mary Ann Smyth

Edition details

• Publisher: Healthy City
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0985420391
• ISBN 13: 9780985420390
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 528