Forbidden Liaisons - Twilight of Medicine

This is a novel within a novella. The novel is set in Philadelphia in a failing hospital in a crime-ridden neighborhood. The stresses of medical practice and the hospital administration are compounded by lawyers, gangs, drug dealers and police investigations. Malpractice claims mount. Personal relationships are strained. Desperate measures are tried to remain solvent and to reduce staff defections.
The novella takes place twenty years later at a ski holiday/birthday party in Taos, NM for the...