Hermes' Viper

Joseph T. McFadden writes from his forty- three-year experience as a neurosurgeon, most of his time in a large municipal hospital of a melting pot American city. The advent of his first novel, Hermes' Viper, coincides remarkably with recent media reports of harm done to patients by the modern medical system, and offers an inside view of vital interest to every person who would trust a family member to a hospital. 
His second novel, The Wafer, addresses the organ donor dilemma. He currently is at work on the third, A Hooker In The Choir, set in the nursing home scene of the American landscape; it also deals with HMO problems. 
He is a native of Oxford, Mississippi, a graduate of Ole Miss and the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He retired as Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School. 
Lost in his dedication to patients who would die without his help, Stuart Holton unwittingly carries in the wake of his benevolence third serpent on his caduceus, a viper poisonous unto death, the woman who has secretly stalked him for sixteen years. She has lived in a lost identity since fire scarred and maimed her at the age of five, and she seeks to find her true self through the pursuit of a long sought love and by bringing merciful death to the suffering. Holton's wife dies mysteriously, and terminal patients beyond treatment are routinely found dead in remote and neglected beds in far reaches of the large hospital wards. Then, people who are not terminal begin to die under troubling circumstances. On the evidence, these deaths can't quite be called murder. In Hera's Journal, the woman describes her daily activities along with many of the hospital abuses, including malpractice and numerous everyday human errors causing preventable deaths and injuries. Memory of fire draws her and threatens to flare again in the fury aroused by the injustices and by her frustration with abortion, birth control, the sight of abused children, and the useless prolongation of life in the throes of terminal maladies and suffering. Imprisoned in this anguish and futility by the injuries of fire, she tries to escape through gaining control. If she fails, the only release ultimately will be the same fire. She tries desperately, but despite all her mercy and love, nothing works. Finally she must remove everything standing in her way. And if she can't have the man she loves at any cost, then he must go too. 
The dilemma about his wife's death four years past and his suspicions of murder and euthanasia in the hospital, continues until Holton's children awaken him to virtual reality, and he immediately sees the possibilities of using it to reconstruct the past and to predict future events in the hospital environment. He enrolls the aid of forensic psychiatry, and with the addition of fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence they begin to unravel the mystery as the woman mounts her attack on his housekeeper, his children, and the new woman who has just appeared in his life. Holton, finally alert to the dangers, tries desperately to defend his family from the relentless stalker carrying little syringes loaded with instant death, hidden packets of deadly poisons, and a drawn stiletto as she lunges at his heart in the raging inferno of her derangement.

McFadden, Joseph T.

Hughes Henshaw Publications

Joseph T. McFadden writes from his forty-three-year experience as a neurosurgeon, most of this time in a large municipal hospital of a melting-pot American city. This reissue of his first novel, Hermes' Viper coincides remarkably with current media reports of harm done to patients and offers an inside view of vital interest to every person who would trust a family member to the medical system.His second novel, The Wafer, addressing the organ donor dilemma, and his book of short stories, Fulton's Monkey, are in the process of re-publication. A non-fiction work, Life in the Deadly World of Medicine, and two novels, A Hooker in the Choir, and The Burnt Offering are in press now. He is at work on his fifth novel, The DNA Rose, and a second collection of short stories.Virtual reality, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence and forensic psychiatry together reveal the fire-scarred and brilliant woman who has stalked her favorite doctor for sixteen years leaving a trail of deaths and flimsy evidence not quite adding up to murder. As she moves to eliminate everything still standing in her way, her victim tries to save her next targets from the fatal fire of her deadly derangement.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

BookSurge Publishing

Retired neurosurgeon, Joseph T. McFadden, M.D. F.A.C.S., has written an experiential litany of treatment gone wrong, misread X-rays, incorrect reporting, misuse of drugs, faulty anesthesia, mistakes with gases and blood transfusions, hospital acquired infections, and other misadventures. This latest release (November 2, 2009, Booksurge Publishing) is full of case studies featuring real life tragedies, omitting the names of victims. Many of these stories include terrible tales of patients who either died (100,000 to 300,000 preventable deaths per year), or were horribly maimed, injured, and forever left disabled or deformed. In his first non-fiction release, Dr. McFadden brings to the light many of the issues surrounding our modern healthcare system. Life in the Deadly World of Medicine is not conjecture or opinion, it is filled with facts figures and statistics meant to bring information to the public in order to educate and inform; and to ultimately protect one's self from becoming another fatal statistic. Life in The Deadly World of Medicine is a guide to the wealth of information available to all people in the 21st century. Armed with this knowledge patients and guardian become empowered to fight back. Blame placing will not change the fatal flaws of this gigantic system: the insurance industry, the hospital industry, and the drug companies riding on the shoulders of the medical profession. The book also explains how the original HMO's were born out of concern for the employees of companies or other groups of people and served patients well as nonprofit organizations until they were taken over by private ownership and the insurance industry. What the reader can expect to learn: Who are your best advocates and what you can do to ensure your safety What questions to ask about any advised or planned procedure Why bad things happen to good people Where to look for possible problems How to prevent common medical errors by being an informed advocate

Life in The Deadly World of Medicine

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Celeste Howard presents the face of innocence to her serious lover, the world famous physicist, John Colburn, and she runs with the gambling crowd in fringes of the underworld where the biggest of all HMO owners, Dr.Bin Kadsh, an Arabian physician, is manipulating for purchase of a huge nursing home chain belonging to one of her gaming cronies. She gets caught up in the struggle for control and becomes a spy for the gambling syndicate fighting to save itself from the dangerous association with the HMO owner who is suspected of using his American enterprises to launder large sums of money to help finance the terrorist movement. People have been killed and others ruined by efforts to devaluate the homes, for cheaper purchase. The Feds already are beginning to notice, and the town people let John know about the real Celeste. One of them, a lawyer who is a member of the secret government monitoring agency, Pegasus, finds John to be a member also and enlists his aid. Together they use the latest advances in spying and warfare techniques to stop the criminal activity, and John finds his real love in the widow of one of Kadsh's victims. Celeste finds her first real satisfaction in an uneducated savage who surprises her spying in the dark.

A Hooker in The Choir

Genre Fiction

Maximilian Pr Pub

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Hermes' Viper

Hermes' Viper

Life in The Deadly World of Medicine

A Hooker in The Choir

Hermes' Viper