G. L. Barbour

A Researched Death (Ron Looney Mystery Series, #4) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

New City Hospital in Cincinnati is affiliated with the South West Ohio Medical School in the same city as a major teaching and research hospital. A prominent surgeon at New City loses his research funding and his operating privileges and storms out of the hospital. Shortly thereafter, the head of research is brutally murdered and suspicion falls on the missing surgeon. The bodies of other individuals who have troubled relations with the surgeon begin to pile up. Cincinnati police are puzzled at the missing surgeon's ability to evade their search and to continue killing enemies in a close and personal manner.

The primary investigator, Detective Ron 'Walker' Looney is a retired Air Force criminal investigator and long-time friend of the hospital's chief of staff, a retired Air Force brigadier general and orthopedic surgeon, Tom Bolling. Bolling's concerns for his staff are compounded by worry that the hospital might lose accreditation status from the Joint Commission and have to sever its affiliation with the medical school. Together with a former medical examiner, they piece together a credible case against the missing surgeon. But that case is later blown apart when evidence proves otherwise.

As the detectives begin re-examining the motive behind the killings, another attack occurs with no obvious connection to the surgeon. The detectives wrestle with their previous ideas about a reason for the murders in light of the last attempt and finally get on the trail of the actual killer. They uncover the identity of someone likely to be the next victim. Their attempt to intervene and prevent this planned assault takes them to a baseball game at Great American Baseball Park and a race against time to prevent a murder.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Galen Barbour
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201314231
• Artikelnr.: 61983619

Autorenporträt

The author's primary career was an academic physician in the Department of Veteran Affairs and at several medical schools in the South and Mid-Atlantic. During that career he published more than 50 scientific articles, edited journal issues, two books and several chapters for other books on health care quality.

He retired from the VA in 2000 to become director of health services administration at the Uniformed Services University for Health Sciences and professor of public health. At USUHS he taught in the Masters of Public Health program and initiated a Masters of Healthcare Administration and Policy degree program. He retired in 2012.

Since formal retirement, he has written three novels (this is his fourth.) Each of the novels is set in a fictional hospital and portrays common personnel and management issues that affect health care quality with attention given to a method to address those issues and improve quality of care.

The author's webpage is at glbarbour.com