STANDARD OF CARE: A NOVEL by David Kerns (Sentient Publications, 2007) is a tale of ethical crisis and redemption, one doctor’s tumultuous journey as a senior executive in America’s largest and most predatory hospital corporation.
Weary of the tedium and diminishing returns of twenty-five years of private practice, Dr. Daniel Fazen becomes the new senior medical executive, the guardian of quality patient care, at Walnut Creek Memorial, his long-cherished community hospital. Without warning, eleven months later, Memorial is acquired by the Olympia Healthcare Corporation, the largest and, he knows, the most ruthless for-profit hospital conglomerate in America. At age fifty-five, with a taste for the good life and years of costly education ahead for his children, Dan ponders a six figure incentive. With reservations – and rationalizations – he stays with Olympia. And so begins a downhill debacle…
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