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New Year's 1984 brings big changes for 40-year-old Jerry O'Donnell. After a messy divorce, he quits his job as a teacher at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, to become a stockbroker.
When he leases a car, he meets his fiancée, Kate Cleary. The two buy a small home and have ambitious plans for the future. It is then that the AIDS epidemic raises its ugly head. After a gay friend dies of AIDS, his lover, a retired doctor, asks Jerry, the fledgling stockbroker, to help earn money for AIDS victims, but they experience strong resistance.
The Best and Worst of Times The remaking of Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics is a high point of the year. Jerry's favorite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, comes painfully close to making the World Series.
At the same time, President Ronald Reagan remains silent in the face of the AIDS epidemic. He cuts taxes on the rich, causing the federal debt to soar. Kate worries about the collapse of the savings and loan industry. Jerry becomes disillusioned with his company's economic philosophy of "churn and burn," selling marginal equities. When President Reagan wins an electoral landslide, it sets America's course for the next four decades. His neglect of the AIDS epidemic motivates Jerry to apply to grad school in Public Policy.
Read the works of Henry Rex Greene, including his first medical series, inspired by his experiences in med school, as an intern and working for a prominent Los Angeles area hospital.
The Class of 1969
It is 1965, and the Watts Riots have just ended when newlyweds Max and Jan King enter medical school. As Max and Jan converge with other students in the Los Angeles County medical complex, neither has any idea that their foray into the world of medicine is about to test their inner strength, perseverance, and activist views in more ways than they ever could have imagined.
Thirteen Months a Year
In Thirteen Months a Year, the second book of his fictional Medical trilogy, real-life doctor Henry Rex Greene revisits two married physicians, Max and Jan King, as they start their internship at L.A. County Hospital in 1969.
Stone Mother
The final installment of a medical trilogy, Stone Mother refers to the old Los Angeles County Hospital.
On entering residency training, a married couple carry their 1960s activism into the ‘70s. They struggle to balance overwhelming responsibilities with their ideals, attempting to reform the “system,” but ultimately it is their personal lives that suffer.
Praise for Dr. Greene’s medical fiction:
I can not recommend this read high enough to any health care professional or friend who lived in the 1970s and remembers the turbulence in society (Richard Nixon was our president for part of that time) For all of us in the healing arts it was a time for sober reflection on why we chose medicine as a profession. Dr. Greene captures the tone of the times. And presents the contrasts we faced through his characters. His writing style is consistently good and his characters believable. You can almost feel the difficulties they felt in a challenging time of our society. Especially in a time of change in the delivery of health care and reassessment of those less fortunate than us. Not only in their professional but also personal lives. A fantastic read!
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Awesome documentation of the changing of healthcare in our nation. This author did a great job telling this story... Amazing. Thank you for making sense of this era in our lives!
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Greene continues his accounts of the medical profession. He has moved beyond the medical school, internship, residency, accounts to follow a practicing physician in Southern California--plenty of material trappings, secure in his practice, secure in his marriage. In reality, not so secure at all. Though it is a novel, Greene hits the mark describing the all too frequent officious and arrogant "leaders" within any medical community--less concerned with healthcare than turning a buck.
Rex Greene, a retired oncologist, is an excellent story teller and, clearly, he knows the field of medicine quite well. The events are well drawn, the pacing is fast and until the last pages, the outcome uncertain. The novel is an insightful look into the medical profession but also fun. It is well worth the read.
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Executive Committee
At age 52, Dr. Cal Boyd is the ‘go to’ gastroenterologist in the West San Fernando Valley. At the top of his game, he discovers that his friend Sheldon Weinberger’s pain clinic is a pill mill that diverts prescription medications to the drug trade. Sheldon’s falsified complaints to the hospital executive committee cost him his practice and his marriage. It is a story of deceit, greed, jealousy and spite. Can Cal restore his life?
Executive Vengeance
In this mystery series sequel, Dr. Cal Boyd has recovered from his conflicts at North Valley Hospital, having won a large settlement for damages. His enemies are dead or in jail, and his career with Encuentro Medical Group is burgeoning.
Cal embarks on an odyssey up and down California, pursuing a story of human trafficking, drugs, the Peoples Temple, and murder. His life is under constant treat as he unearths thirty years of corruption.
Life Could Be a Dream
The summer of 1954 begins a pivotal year in 9-year-old Robby Barnaby's life. On the last day of school, he breaks his arm sliding into home plate.
On their annual vacation on Balboa Island, he and his three brothers learn his family is moving to a city across L.A. Before the move, his mother dies from surgery, leaving him in the care of his abusive father.
His new home is a town with no baseball and a brutal junior high. Robby and his brothers are miserable, are lost without their mom. What will happen to these boys?
