When Dr. Browne's partner retires, his practice is taken over by
Dr. Forbes Q. Hazzig, who becomes a zealot for a 'managed care
revolution' of 'marketplace medicine.' Browne and his associate Dr.
Kennes receive irrational, discordant information from healthcare
experts, consultants and economists. Browne learns that rhetoric of
a mass movement must be as erroneous as possible promising a vague,
glorious future. Hazzig grows immensely rich and gains enormous
power relying on intimidation and coercion.
Joanna Browne's exhibition of J.M.W. Turner becomes a thrilling
success, yet Hazzig's wife succeeds in eliminating Joanna's
position at East Valley Museum of Art. Joanna must accept a
position at a distant university; her absence devastates
Browne.
Browne and Kennes discover managed care was based on a
Washington bureau hoax, the 'health maintenance strategy' of 1973:
an irrational mass movement, a mass hysteria. Hazzig plots to
humiliate and ruin the two doctors; each threat goes awry. Hazzig
is discredited; his illusory wealth collapses.
Reunited with Joanna, Dr. Browne receives a disturbing
invitation to return to East Valley to be recognized with Dr.
Kennes for their efforts to expose the folly of managed care.
Browne is reluctant to relive his lonely, troubled, distressed
past.
General
Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2009 |
First published: |
June 2009 |
Authors: |
Richard Dean Smith
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
580 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4401-3771-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4401-3771-4 |
Barcode: |
9781440137716 |
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