Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine is a collection of short stories that brings the realities of life into sharp focus and it is a picture of America that every hard-working and poor citizen knows about, because he has been forced to live through it. It graphically illustrates why doctors, lawyers, politicians and insurance companies have a stranglehold on this country and until its citizens take back their democratic voice, we will be headed down the same dark and hopeless path to destruction that will either lead to a depression and bankruptcy or revolution.

In the title story, we are shown, and very graphically, why bad medicine is practiced in a for-profit hospital and why, as long as hospitals are run like for-profit businesses and doctors are paid on how much they can bill the patient or the patient's insurance company, we will never join the rest of the civilized world, who already recognize that health care for its citizens is a human right and not a monetary right, in fair and just treatment for its citizens. In "Baby Talk," we see why doctors can be devils or angels and how much authority and power they actually have over life and death. In "Pauly" we see how the American system itself can destroy the weakest of us all, a child. And in "Lollipop," we see how the system spares no one and how, as in all the stories, money becomes the root of all evil and how we must change it or perish with it.