A Surgeon's Heart: The Conflict

by R.W. Sewell, M.D.

Overview

The Conflict is the second book in this series, and continues the story of Jack Roberts as he struggles with the devolving 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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045944281
Publisher:	R.W. Sewell, M.D.
Publication date:	05/11/2014
Series:	A Surgeon's Heart , #2
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	597 KB

About the Author

Robert Walter Sewell was born on 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.