Psychologist Jenny Barrett is trust into the dark, predatory world of corporate managed care. Her idealism is crushed by the frightening realities of the new medicine: the total loss of privacy, open trading of medical data, and a computer named MOM who calculates profits from client deaths. An old man fights to comfort his dying wife while a religious zealot obtains person patient data to blackmail millions of women who have had abortions. A senator seeds to reveal the formulas of death, but is targeted as an enemy. Jenny alone has the key to the secrets of the company, but MOM calculates another deadly decision.
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A gripping and compelling story that brings to light the challenge of modern medicine in the age of industrialized managed healthcare. A good and powerful read, and I learned a lot. His thoughtful prose and insightful humor gently walked me through the most complex computer systems. -- Dan Kearney, CEO, Psychiatric Hospital-Orlando
A lively, engaging, and fascinating story that shines a scrutinizing light into the dark corners of healthcare. Richly drawn characters in all too common struggles. -- A. Nicholas Groth, Ph.D. Psychologist, President, Forensic Mental Health Associates
Riveting, exciting, and alarming - pushes us face-first into a kind of heathcare management that only George Orwell could have foreseen. -- Dick Finnegan, The Executive Speaker
TERMINAL CONSENT is an exciting and terrifying account of medicine gone awry. The novel is both illuminating and shocking in its depiction of managed care practices that are fast becoming commonplace. Clever, lively, and easily understood. -- J. Ted Giuffrida, M.D., Florida Radiology Associates
TERMINAL CONSENT was absolutely wonderful. The situation that I read about are a part of my world and I was scared down to my shoes! Thank you for this tremendous story. -- Gail Farmer, RN, Director of Utilization Review
Terminal Consent is a damn good read, rich, vivid, and terrifyingly real. Most important, it is an alarming picture of what may lie ahead for medicine as managed care and computers squeeze the humanity out of health care. -- Frank Pittman,MD, author ofPrivate Lies, Man Enough, and Grow Up!
Timely, germane, and relevant. A medical thriller attuned to the direction medicine is heading. -- Dr. Dean Edell, Nationally Syndicated Physician, KGO-TV, San Francisco
A lively, engaging, and fascinating story that shines a scrutinizing light into the dark corners of healthcare. Richly drawn characters in all too common struggles. -- A. Nicholas Groth, Ph.D. Psychologist, President, Forensic Mental Health Associates
Riveting, exciting, and alarming - pushes us face-first into a kind of heathcare management that only George Orwell could have foreseen. -- Dick Finnegan, The Executive Speaker
TERMINAL CONSENT is an exciting and terrifying account of medicine gone awry. The novel is both illuminating and shocking in its depiction of managed care practices that are fast becoming commonplace. Clever, lively, and easily understood. -- J. Ted Giuffrida, M.D., Florida Radiology Associates
TERMINAL CONSENT was absolutely wonderful. The situation that I read about are a part of my world and I was scared down to my shoes! Thank you for this tremendous story. -- Gail Farmer, RN, Director of Utilization Review
Terminal Consent is a damn good read, rich, vivid, and terrifyingly real. Most important, it is an alarming picture of what may lie ahead for medicine as managed care and computers squeeze the humanity out of health care. -- Frank Pittman,MD, author ofPrivate Lies, Man Enough, and Grow Up!
Timely, germane, and relevant. A medical thriller attuned to the direction medicine is heading. -- Dr. Dean Edell, Nationally Syndicated Physician, KGO-TV, San Francisco
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Mr. Freeny has received high acclaim for his numerous short stores and articles. His first book has garnered impressive accolades for its engaging prose and its insightful discussion of modern healthcare.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Terminal Consent is a great read.,
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This review is from: Terminal Consent (Paperback)
"Michael Freeny skillfully weaves between several subplots as the story unfolds and the tension builds. The book highlights the dangers of financially driven medicine and the terrifying ease which people can use computer systems to invade our confidential files. Every time I see a Where's Waldo (or Wally as he's called in the UK) book in future I will be reminded of Terminal Consent - but you will have to read it to find out why!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great insider's view of technology gone awry,
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This review is from: Terminal Consent (Paperback)
Freeny achieves a balance between writing to those with a primary interest in health care delivery but with no background in computing, and those who are highly computer literate but not necessarily aware of current issues in managed care. By appealing to both ends of this spectrum, he greatly expands the audience for this book. Readers, who fall somewhere in the middle of this continuum, will find his illustrations all too realistic and hauntingly familiar.
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Right on book about healthcare gone crazy.,
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This review is from: Terminal Consent (Paperback)
I haven't "had time" to read fiction in about 10 years. I forgot how fun and enlightening it can be. Freeny does an amazing job of high-tech talk in human terms. And it's so true.
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