A Surgeon's Heart: The Choice
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.
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