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June 18, 2004: DEATH OF A HEALER CAST -- Important scheduling changes to meeting location & date: the location of Monday's (June 21) cast meeting for Death of a Healer has been changed to the Microsurgery & Brain Research Institute at 6725 Chippewa, Saint Louis, 63109. It is still at 7 p.m.
Also the cast meeting for June 29 has been changed back to Monday evening, June 28 at 7 p.m. This too will be held at MBRI at 6725 Chippewa, Saint Louis, 63109. Please make the changes/notes on your calendars.June 16, 2004: Death of a Healer SHOOTING script. (DoaH_PHY_1_6_061504.doc).
June 16, 2004: Cast meeting information.
June 15, 2004: Cast, crew, production team roster released on website and communication roster released by e-mail.
May 25, 2004: Read our latest press release.
April 30, 2004: See the official casting call notice for Death of a Healer.
April 29, 2004: ForeSolutions Inc., a St. Louis-based Communication and Production company (Clean Up Aisle 3, On The Shanna Show), announces it will begin production of an independent movie based on the adaptation of the novel Death of a Healer. Production will begin Summer 2004 and take place in and around St. Louis. The production will be a feature length, independent film.
What is Death of a Healer? It is a compelling tale that clearly placed St. Louis neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Henry Young into the spotlight as one of America's premier writers of medical thrillers. The story illuminates the darker side of the medical worlds in a way nonfiction could never accomplish.
Death of a Healer chronicles the lifelong journey of Jake Gibson, M.D., diehard romanticist and surgeon extraordinaire, as he struggles to preserve his professional oath against the avarice and abuse of power so prevalent in present-day America.
Jake runs headfirst into a group of sinister medical and legal practitioners determined to destroy his beloved profession. Events begin spinning out of control when Jake uncovers a nationwide plot by hospital executives to eliminate certain patient groups in order to improve the bottom line.
With the lives of his family on the line, Jake invokes a self-imposed banishment as a missionary doctor and rediscovers his lifelong obsession to be a trusted physician.
Death of a Healer is a masterfully constructed suspense novel; packed with the kind of gritty authority only a gifted writer con portray.
Death of a Healer was published by Durban House Publishing Company, Inc., Dallas in 2001.
The author, Paul Henry Young, M.D. is a board-certified neurological surgeon, who in addition to the magnificent wonders of the human brain, is fascinated by the celestial beauty of mankind's compassion, the absolute wretchedness that confounds corporate and judicial decision-making.