Burned Out
by Dean Mafako
GENRE: Medical Thriller
PUBLICATION DATE: 02/20/2023
DESCRIPTION:
Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal — to build the cardiac intensive care unit and improve the care for underprivileged children. The physician faces insurmountable odds: the devastating aftereffects of a hurricane, deprivation of essential staff and resources, and a cardiac surgeon resistant to change. Dr. Philson will do whatever it takes to help improve the care for children, until the job begins to take a toll on his marriage and his health. How much is he willing to sacrifice? Working hundred-hour weeks, overcoming the impossible, and facing personal ruin are only the start of what he will face. Will he achieve his goal before he causes irreversible damage to health and personal life and places himself at risk of burnout?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dean Mafako, M.D. is an author, physician, and clinical professor of pediatrics with over 15 years of clinical and research experience. He is passionate about medicine and enjoys writing fiction and nonfiction novels about difficult and traumatic life experiences delivering a message which he hopes can help others achieve personal growth and spiritual healing.
REVIEWS:
1) What begins as an inspirational story of personal sacrifice for the benefit of vulnerable children becomes a relentless struggle against bureaucracy and administrative incompetence that degrades the physical and emotional well-being of the young doctor. Burned Out is an account that is mirrored and repeated in the real world across businesses of all shapes and sizes. (BookTrib)
2) Burned Out is a captivating, thought-provoking, and page-turning novel that will resonate with readers who work in the medical field. Author Dean Mafako writes from the heart – as personal narrative is the driving force behind his triumphant book. (BookBaby)
3) This book is gut wrenching description of a doctor struggling to do his best to provide highest quality of care to his patients while struggling to change a system stuck in old ways. The stress takes a toll and affects his and his family wellbeing. This is a lesson to anyone struggling at work balancing work and family. A must read. (Amazon Reader)
COMPARATIVE FILM/BOOK:
Five Days at Memorial
CASTING:
1) Dr. Eric Philson - Ryan Reynolds 2) Justin Thorn - Charlie Hunnam. 3) Terry Penton - Patrick Stewart
PRIMARY VENUES/LOCATIONS WITHIN THE BOOK:
Biloxi, Mississippi
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