Heartland for Profit

A year after Dr. Phil Gold leaves Chicago to become Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Southern Ohio University Hospital his world begins to fall apart. Patients are mysteriously dying, and the hospital administration and his own colleagues blame him for the disastrous consequences. As his long-distance marriage to Elizabeth, a healthcare lawyer who remained in Chicago, unravels, a beautiful cardiologist weaves a web of intrigue, diverting Phil from his quest for solutions to his personal and professional dilemmas.

Phil must stop the carnage and enlists the aid of his talented but cocky African-American Chief Resident, Charles Campbell. But his search for the cause of the rash of devastating operative deaths results in threats and violence instead of answers. Patients have become pawns in an insidious scheme to maximize profits. And the schemers will go to any length to assure the success of their plans.

At the risk of infuriating HMOs, hospital administrators and even his own colleagues, Dr. Myerowitz has written a fictional account, combining real changes occurring in healthcare with what might happen if medicine continues to evolve into a business. Fact or fiction? Can you tell the difference?