Bøger af Henry Rex Greene

New Year's 1984 brings big changes for 40-year-old Jerry O'Donnell. After a messy divorce, he quits his job as a teacher at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, to become a stockbroker. When he leases a car, he meets his fiancée, Kate Cleary. The two buy a small home and have ambitious plans for the future. It is then that the AIDS epidemic raises its ugly head. After a gay friend dies of AIDS, his lover, a retired doctor, asks Jerry, the fledgling stockbroker, to help earn money for AIDS victims, but they experience strong resistance. The Best and Worst of Times The remaking of Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics is a high point of the year. Jerry's favorite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, comes painfully close to making the World Series. At the same time, President Ronald Reagan remains silent in the face of the AIDS epidemic. He cuts taxes on the rich, causing the federal debt to soar. Kate worries about the collapse of the savings and loan industry. Jerry becomes disillusioned with his company's economic philosophy of "churn and burn," selling marginal equities. When President Reagan wins an electoral landslide, it sets America's course for the next four decades. His neglect of the AIDS epidemic motivates Jerry to apply to grad school in Public Policy.(About the Author)Says author Henry Rex Greene: "My sixth novel, Life Could be a Dream, is a fictional version of my childhood in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles. I now live in Henderson, Nevada, after an exciting coast-to-coast journey through America. I'm a practicing physician, specializing in hematology and oncology. I had strong involvement in shaping the hospice movement and medical ethics."

At age 52, Dr. Cal Boyd is the "go to" gastroenterologist in the West San Fernando Valley. At the top of his game his life unravels when he discovers that his friend Sheldon Weinberger's pain clinic is a pill mill that diverts prescription medications to the drug trade. Sheldon's falsified complaints to the hospital executive committee cost him his practice and his marriage. Carol Hendricks, the nursing director of the GI lab, a former "flame," refuses to cooperate with the frame-up and is forced to quit. Despite his struggles Cal reconnects with her and helps pursue her runaway daughter in Northern California. The hospital's attorney is murdered after he threatens to "blow the whistle" on Sheldon's sweetheart deal to sell the hospital and CareBest Medical Group to a for profit chain for millions of dollars. When Cal discovers the secret to Sheldon's power his life spirals downwards, but he also faces the wrath of Sheldon's nephew, Dr. Richie Comstock, a poly-pharmaceutical addict, who wants to destroy Cal and take away everything he loves. An attempted intervention on Richie's addiction triggers the conflict. Ironically, Cal has been in recovery and understands Richie's vicious behavior, the ugly side of addiction. He will stop at nothing to ruin Cal's life. It is a story of deceit, greed, jealousy and spite. Can Cal restore his life? Will Sheldon's greed or Richie's craziness relent? Can he help Carol find her runaway daughter? About the AuthorHenry Rex Greene is a retired physician living in Florida with his wife Mary Jo and two Bichons. He practiced in Los Angeles for 25 years and was recognized as one of LA's best doctors. He also was active in professional leadership roles in his career. He has written three novels of medicine during the tumultuous sixties-seventies: The Class of 1969, Thirteen Months a Year, and Stone Mother. His hobbies are writing, gardening, and politics.

10SKU (if available)In Thirteen Months a Year, the second book of his fictional trilogy, real-life doctor Henry Rex Greene revisits two married physicians, Max and Jan King, as they start their internship at L.A. County Hospital in 1969.For the next year, their jobs and personal lives working in the busiest hospital in the country are highly stressed. Max is an anti-war activist who was lucky to graduate med school, while Jan was nearly the class valedictorian.Despite his lack of educational prowess, Dr. Max King is driven to make the world a better place. He believes it’s his duty to fight against the system. This stunning medical novel weaves the lives of these young doctors and their patients into the moral ethics and radicalism of the ‘70s era in a believable fashion. And when patients are dying due to a monumental hospital screw up, Max is there to lead the charge against the bigwigs.Can this couple survive the wrath of the hospital administration? Can their marriage survive? Or are all their efforts doomed in failure? Activism is alive and well in this powerful medical series.Henry Rex Greene is a hematologist and oncologist. He earned a BA in zoology from UCLA and an MD from UC Irvine. He has been involved in medical ethics, hospice, and palliative care throughout his career and is active in organized medicine. Dr. Greene has two grown children and lives with his wife Mary Jo in Florida. His other books in the series are The Class of 1969 and Stone Mother: Final Installment of the Medical Trilogy. “I’ve done my best to explore an era that we shall not soon see again.”Publisher’s website: http://sbprabooks.com/HenryRexGreeneAuthor’s website: http://www.medicalschool1969.com 

The final installment of a medical trilogy, Stone Mother refers to the old Los Angeles County Hospital.On entering residency training, a married couple carry their 1960s activism into the ''70s. They struggle to balance overwhelming responsibilities with their ideals, attempting to reform the "system," but ultimately it is their personal lives that suffer.Max King is driven to make a better world. As a medical resident at L.A. County Hospital, he has daunting responsibilities. Jan King, his wife, is a resident in pediatrics. She''s a reluctant reformer. On New Year''s Eve 1976, Max visits his best friend, Abe Grant, and pours out his soul about the last five years.In 1970, Max and Jan King finished a difficult year of internship at the hospital. Max has transformed from an indifferent medical student into a leader of young activists, while Jan struggles with an abusive academic culture.The hospital is short of funds and key staff. The activists hold a press conference to claim that twenty-five patients have died from inadequate care. Afterward, they''re subjected to a witch hunt to quash their complaints.Meanwhile Jan is pregnant and delivers a baby with a medical complication that suggests paternity other than Max.Henry Rex Greene is a hematologist and oncologist who lives in Florida. He has practiced in California, Ohio, Michigan, and New Hampshire. Active in "medical politics," he served on the California Medical Association''s ethics council. His wife Mary Jo is a hospice/palliative care nurse. His other books in the series are The Class of 1969, about medical student activism at the end of the ''60s, and Thirteen Months a Year, a transformational year of internship at County hospital.Publisher''s website: http://sbprabooks.com/HenryRexGreene