The Blockbuster Drug: Are too many profiting to stop a bad drug? - Softcover

Reed, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692836551 ISBN 13: 9780692836552

Verlag: D. Gary Reed, 2017

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The Blockbuster Drug may be just the prescription for the reader looking for a smart, suspenseful novel set against the background of some of today's cutting-edge medical and legal issues. Set largely inside a major health plan located in Cincinnati, this novel explores the dependent, but sometimes treacherous relationships among health plans, drug companies, physicians and patients.

Spencer Doss, M.D., the health plan's new Regional Medical Director, stumbles onto what he believes are too many cases of a rare cancer in older patients taking the latest blockbuster drug.

For help, he turns to Eileen Wang, the health plan's in-house counsel. Wang has other issues on her plate - a cyber intrusion and an insider-trading investigation - but finds herself wondering why so many seniors are taking the expensive new drug.

Maya Naidu, the programmer whose data mining unearthed the excess cases of the cancer in patients taking the drug, returns home to Hyderabad to be at her mother's death bed.

In Shanghai, the police are investigating a bribery scheme involving the drug's manufacturer.

Hired to represent one of the drug's victims, hotshot young attorney Ryan Ponzer doesn't have the resources to litigate with a giant drug company. Should he sue the health plan for failure to warn the health plan's members of the blockbuster's deadly side effects?

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Gary Reed is author of two novels, A Fatal Cell Phone Video (2016) and Things Could Ugly (2018). Before becoming a novelist, Mr. Reed was a practicing attorney. Most recently, he served as Associate General Counsel for Humana Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky. In that role, he managed the team that handled the company's internal investigations and litigation nationally. Before that, he created the legal department for ChoiceCare Health Plans, Inc. in Cincinnati. He began his career with a large law firm in Cincinnati, where he handled product liability and insurance coverage litigation in courts around the country. As an attorney, he made numerous presentations and published professional articles. Mr. Reed did his undergraduate work at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He obtained his law degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He currently lives in Northern Kentucky.

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• Verlag: D. Gary Reed
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0692836551
• ISBN 13: 9780692836552
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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