The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious

De: Ron Turker

Narrado por: Ron Turker

What happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital, where the doctor meets dogma and falls for the CEO? A nun, for God’s sake.

Dr. Martin Fischer, a white-coated Quixote, tilts his scalpel at the bloated underbelly of U.S. healthcare and fights for his patients. His only weapons are surgical skill and a pesky sense of righteous indignation that’s driving everyone nuts—including Marty.

As he takes on a callous multi-billion-dollar medical corporation, a mercenary surgical group, and the thoroughly corrupt CFO of St. Salacious, an unplanned pregnancy threatens to excommunicate the entire hospital. Can they really do that? It’s either stress or God who intervenes. Did Jesus just wink at him from the cross?

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Thoroughly enjoyable. Important. Must read.

Ron Turker's debut novel is a fascinating, heartbreaking, and sometimes hilarious look into modern, for-profit hospital practice in this country, and specifically in hospitals owned and/or operated by religious organizations.

Despite possible personal mental-health struggles, the main character—Dr. Marty to his patients—and his travails—from a gut-wrenching opening through saving and losing patients as well as losing his patience—will leave you questioning how health care is delivered in this country. Marty's story is viewed through his own eyes and through the lives and actions of fully realized characters that you just know are based on real people. You will feel the joy and defeat, the anger and hope, right along with him. As we learn in the "About the Author" section, the ups and downs of these challenging situations are informed by Dr. Turker's own experiences and are related with a lot of heart and humor. (We also learn Ron got his start as a stand-up comic before following a career in medicine, and it shows.)

Ron reads his own novel, a treat we don't often get in fiction, so the emphasis is exactly as the author intended.

Whether hardcopy, ebook, or audio, this timely and important novel is something everyone should be reading/listening to right now.

Recommend!

Love this book. Great humor and plot! Hard to put down. As someone who grew up in the catholic school system and worked in a catholic nursing home, and being in the medical profession, he is spot on in so many areas.

A collection of sexist views of women

The author deals in stereotypes with every character and none have any nuance or complexity. I gave up halfway through because I got tired of his sexual fantasies about nuns and other women he works with. The men aren’t much more believable but they’re less offensive. Also the plot is not a whodunnit but a “who cares?”.