See 3 recent editorials by Dr. Jim Bailey and his colleagues Drs. Scott Morris and Clarence Davis in the Commercial Appeal on how to heal our broken health care system. 5 ways we can heal our broken health care system Americans are desperate to discover the best way to reform our country’s broken health care system. […]
The End of Healing: A Journey through the Underworld of American Medicine Bailey’s novel, The End of Healing: A Journey through the Underworld of American Medicine, will be released nationally September 18, 2017. It distills Bailey’s decades of experience as a physician and health care quality expert into a remarkable story that will change your […]
On March 7-8, 2017, I was with Society of General Internal Medicine members in D.C. for Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Hill Day to speak up for patients! On March 8, the day the proposed American Health Care Act was working its way through the House Ways and Means Committee, I visited 11 Tennessee […]
Dr. Jim Bailey speaks about The End of Healing and the Path to True High Value Health Care. Jim talks about the kind of resilience and grit it takes for real health system transformation. He shows how primary care physicians and patients can stand up together for true health care that heals. His talk was […]
Jim Bailey talks about The End of Healing and Finding Health Care that Heals. “Payment has nothing to do with the quality of results. It is not whether you kill or cure but how you code the claim.” Health Watch USA -Meeting — June, 15, 2016
Memphis writer Jim Bailey was recently named among the winners of the Benjamin Franklin Awards™ for his debut novel, The End of Healing. The End of Healing was a Silver Medalist in the Popular Fiction category of the Benjamin Franklin Awards. The award was announced during a gala awards ceremony held Friday, April 8, 2016 […]
Here is my keynote presentation from August 14, 2015 at the 69th Annual Conference of The Episcopal Churchmen of Tennessee, the largest conference of its type in The Episcopal Church. The theme of the conference, “The power of stories to inspire and transform,” comes from Mark 4:34 — “But without a parable spake he not […]
Here is the M.L. Seidman Town Hall Lecture I gave on April 7, 2015 at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee. This lecture, entitled “The Industrial Giants of Modern Healthcare Whose Time is Past,” discusses some of the major themes in my novel “The End of Healing” and how the protagonist Dr. Don Newman’s journey through the […]
In The End of Healing, Dr. Don Newman discovers that Dante’s representation of the moral organization of the universe (depicted above by the artist Botticelli) is a perfect ethical framework for understanding modern medicine. Don realizes that the levels of healthcare hell he has been exploring with Dr. Sampson in their seminar correspond perfectly with […]