Rent–a–Doc

About the Book

David Neuman, MD FACEP, in significant financial and legal distress, has no alternative but to accept a position in a hospital emergency department with a reputation for poor quality care. Adding to his consternation, he deems the community as a very undesirable place to live. Considering the job beneath his training and qualifications, he enters the role with an attitude. With an aggressive chip on his shoulder and youthful inexperience, he plunges headlong into a minefield rife with ethical and moral conflicts. Abandoning the long engrained fundamental values of his youth, he eventually loses his moral compass. The struggle to right the ship — regain his moral equilibrium — proves quite problematic, erratic unpredictable and ethereal.

About the Author

Jim R. Cleary MD FACEP grew up in the foothills of North Carolina and attended Wake Forest University for both his undergraduate and graduate education. After a stint in the military and then a private practice in NC, he elected to pursue the evolving specialty of emergency medicine. After preparing and passing the exam for specialty board certification, he practiced emergency medicine throughout the South. The accumulation of events and anecdotal stories over the span of his career served as a foundation for this story. He continues, to this day, to pursue his life long love affair with medicine by working in the emergency department on a part time basis