A Surgeon's Heart: The Conflict

De: R.W. Sewell M.D.

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A Surgeon’s Heart: The Conflict, is the story of Dr. Jack Roberts, a pediatric heart surgeon, as he takes on the system of political control and corporate greed that is destroying his profession and threatening his ability to provide life-saving care to his vulnerable patients. The Conflict is the second book in this series, and continues the story of Jack Roberts as he struggles with the evolving American health care system, where corporate profits and government controls threaten to seize the entire medical profession. Jack's son, David, is a brilliant young man who aspires to follow in his father's footsteps, despite the rapidly changing health care environment. Jack fears his son will be swept up in this system that treats physicians simply as interchangeable parts in a complex health care machine. Jack grows desperate to defend his traditional values and ethical principles embodied in the sacred Hippocratic Oath. He is convinced that it's the system that offers the greatest threat to his ability to provide life-saving care to children with critical cardiac ailments. The seasoned surgeon decides he must take action to combat this covert threat to the lives of those he is sworn to serve. He embarks on a personal crusade against the system, but as the story unfolds, he encounters powerful unseen forces determined to destroy him and the obstacle he poses to their sinister plan.