A Surgeon's Heart: The Choice - Couverture souple

Sewell MD, R W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0990405133 ISBN 13 : 9780990405139

Editeur : Robert Sewell, MD, 2015

Synopsis

A calling can give a life direction. But eventually, following it requires a choice.

Dr. Jack Roberts has spent his career fighting to preserve a simple principle: medicine should be organized around the needs of patients and the physicians who care for them.

After everything that struggle has cost him, Jack is determined to return to the work that first gave his life purpose—pediatric heart surgery. But returning is no longer enough. If the healthcare system he believes in cannot survive within the existing model, perhaps he will have to build something different.

Doing so means transforming an idea into reality.

Jack begins pursuing an innovative, patient-centered healthcare model designed to restore the physician-patient relationship while using technology, efficiency, and new methods of financing to make high-quality care more accessible. To succeed, however, he must gain the cooperation of political leaders, corporations, physicians, and others accustomed to a very different system.

At the same time, Dr. David Roberts is beginning his own journey into medicine.

David grew up believing in the principles his father taught him. Now he must discover whether those principles can survive outside the protection of his father's example. Among physicians of his own generation, he encounters different attitudes toward patients, professional responsibility, technology, and the role medicine should play in a doctor's life.

For both father and son, conviction is no longer enough.

Each must decide what he believes—and what he is willing to do about it.

The Choice is the fourth novel in the six-book A Surgeon's Heart series, a multigenerational medical family saga about physicians, patients, family, faith, technology, and the transformation of American healthcare.

Written by a surgeon with more than forty years of experience caring for patients, the series moves beyond criticism of the healthcare system to ask a more difficult question: If the existing system no longer serves patients and physicians as it should, what might we build in its place?

Jack Roberts answered The Calling.

He confronted The Conflict.

He survived The Crisis.

Now he must make The Choice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Walter Sewell was born November 20, 1950, in Independence, Missouri, and moved to Texas with his parents at the age of twelve. He has lived in Texas since, attending Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur and Lamar University in Beaumont, where he received a bachelor’s degree in biology. He went on to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where he achieved his medical degree in 1974. He was accepted into the general surgery residency program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and completed his surgical training in 1979. After finishing his residency, Dr. Sewell immediately began his surgical practice in the Mid-Cities between Dallas and Fort Worth in North Texas. He moved his practice to its current location in Southlake, Texas, in 2003, and remains an active surgeon today, with an emphasis on minimally invasive general surgery at the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake. As a recognized specialist in the field of laparoscopic surgery, Dr. Sewell has lectured on various minimally invasive procedures throughout the United States and around the world. He is a member of the American Society of General Surgeons (ASGS) and was elected president of that organization in February 2008. He is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and has served as a governor since 2013. Dr. Sewell maintains memberships in the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Texas Medical Association, the Tarrant County Medical Society, as well as the prestigious Texas Surgical Society. Along with his wife, Donna, Dr. Sewell resides in Colleyville, Texas, where he enjoys golf, photography, computer graphics, video production, gardening and, of course, writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robert Sewell, MD
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0990405133
• ISBN 13: 9780990405139
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 455
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg