A Surgeon's Heart: The Crisis
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What happens when the physician who has spent his life saving others suddenly finds himself unable to save the world he believes in-or even himself?
Pediatric heart surgeon Jack Roberts has spent a lifetime believing in a simple principle: the physician's first responsibility is to the patient.
But the profession he entered is rapidly changing. Government regulation, hospital economics, insurance requirements, and an expanding healthcare bureaucracy increasingly determine how medicine is practiced. What others debate as policy, Jack experiences every day in the lives of physicians and patients caught inside the system.
His resistance has already brought him into conflict with powerful forces. Now that conflict becomes a crisis.
As pressures surrounding his profession intensify, Jack faces a deeply personal ordeal that tests far more than his career. The certainty that has sustained him-as a surgeon, husband, father, and man of faith-begins to falter. For a physician accustomed to confronting life-and-death problems with knowledge and decisive action, some wounds cannot be repaired so easily.
Around him, the next generation continues taking shape. David Roberts moves closer to the medical career his father once inspired him to pursue, even as Jack increasingly questions what kind of profession will be waiting for his son. Family, colleagues, patients, and events beyond the United States force both men to confront the difference between practicing medicine and preserving what makes medicine worth practicing.
The Crisis is the third novel in the six-book A Surgeon's Heart series, a multigenerational medical family saga about physicians, patients, family, faith, and the transformation of American healthcare.
Written by a surgeon with more than forty years of experience caring for patients, the series takes readers beyond the political arguments surrounding healthcare and into the lives of the people who must actually provide and receive it.
Jack Roberts answered The Calling.
He confronted The Conflict.
Now he must survive The Crisis.
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