Publisher's Synopsis
This Unabridged Edition differs from the regular edition of Medical Grail in that it includes Ben Wiggins' fight against a group of doctors who want to use public funds to purchase a CT scanner for themselves, and then integrates his story into Medical Grail. Ben, a feisty 80 year-old physician, ignores lawsuits and threats to battle his brazen colleagues before meeting Robert Bascom, a young, idealistic physician hired by the hospital administrator to fight the corruption and incompetence rampant in his facility. On Bascom's first night in town he gets an urgent call from a nurse in the hospital. He races to the emergency room where he sees a physician reading a newspaper at the nurse's station. Two patients are in the otherwise empty ward: one is asleep on a stretcher, the other is as white as the sheet covering him. He asks the nurse at the stretcher, "Did you ask the doctor reading the paper to help with this patient?" "Yes, but he won't treat Mexicans." From that moment forward the plot thickens, and Bascom is horrified to learn that the charlatans and corrupt practitioners in the tiny desert hospital have one common goal: to run him out of town. And, despite Ben's help, they will do anything to achieve that goal. Medical Grail, a fictional story based upon true events, is the tale of a doctor who has traveled with patients who have made the trip, some successfully, others less so, through the maze of modern medicine. It will horrify you.
