Standard of Care - Couverture souple

Kerns, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 159181054X ISBN 13 : 9781591810544

Editeur : Sentient Publications, 2007

Synopsis

Everyday doctor Daniel Fazen finds himself at a morally challenging crossroad between his traditional values and the bottom-line demands of corporate health care, a dilemma that leads him to reluctantly stage a showdown between his own standards of care and the big-business forces tying his hands. Original. A first novel.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

David Kerns's career as a pediatrician has been largely devoted
to the care of abused and neglected children. He is currently a Clinical
Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He
is also the Medical Director for the Center for Child Protection,
Department of Pediatrics, at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San
Jose, California, where he has served over the years as Chairman of the
Department of Pediatrics and Chief Medical Officer. In addition, he has
been Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center.
He was educated at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and
Northwestern University School of Medicine.

Dr. Kerns has published 35 academic journal articles as well as essays and
book chapters in the field of pediatrics, and has co-authored a pediatric
CD-ROM on child sexual abuse. Aside from writing and doctoring, he has
occupied himself as a semi-pro musician, with incarnations as both a rock
drummer and a bluegrass banjo player.

David Kerns lives in Oakland, California.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sentient Publications
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 159181054X
• ISBN 13: 9781591810544
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 229