medicine – The End of Healing

New National Release of The End of Healing—September 18, 2017

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September 13, 2017

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 perspective on the U.S. medical system forever…and give you the insight you need to find real healing in today’s world.

The new release features an exciting newly restored original ending that will thrill new readers and enchant Jim’s loyal readers as well. Readers will also appreciate multiple small improvements to the story, a new cover, an improved illustration, and additional back material for those who want to dig deeper.

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Resilience and Grit on the Path to Health Care that Heals

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September 1, 2016

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 presented at the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Primary Care Issues in Women’s Health Conference at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn, Saturday, August 13, 2016.

Finding Health Care that Heals—Health Watch USA

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June 18, 2016

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

Jim Bailey Discussing The End of Healing on The Doctor’s Lounge

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May 2, 2016

The Doctor’s Lounge on America’s Web Radio—Jim Bailey discusses his novel, The End of Healing, with host Dr. Mike Koriwchak on Feb. 18, 2016

Benjamin Franklin Award Winner for Popular Fiction

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April 17, 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 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Click here to download the press release.
An annual awards competition named in honor of America’s most cherished publisher/printer, the Benjamin Franklin Award recognizes excellence in independent publishing. In this prestigious awards program, publications are grouped by genre and judged on editorial and design merit by top practitioners in each field. The Benjamin Franklin Award is sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the largest not-for-profit trade association in the book industry. This year’s awards competition garnered nearly 1400 individual entries.

The Quest for Healing—Keynote Presentation, Dubose Conference

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October 15, 2015

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 unto them.” This talk describes how and why I decided to use the medium of fiction to tell the story of American healthcare and how our stories have the power to change the world.

The Industrial Giants of Modern Healthcare Whose Time is Past—M.L. Seidman Town Hall Lecture

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September 23, 2015

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 dark underworld of modern medicine can show us the path to the true high-value health care we need most.

St. John’s College, Annapolis—Part 1: The Hero’s Journey

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September 11, 2015

Listen to the audio recording of Jim Bailey’s Friday Night Lecture at St. John’s College on 9–11 about “Dante and the Hero’s Quest for Healing” in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium. Part 1 includes introductory comments and an overview of the hero’s quest as described by Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and Christopher Vogler.

St. John’s College, Annapolis—Part 3: Earlier Hero Stories

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September 11, 2015

Listen to the audio recording of Jim Bailey’s Friday Night Lecture at St. John’s College on 9–11 about “Dante and the Hero’s Quest for Healing” in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium. Part 3 reveals the resonance of Dante’s Inferno with earlier hero’s journey stories including the Odyssey and Aeneid and how all of these stories center around a journey into the depths of hell and rebirth and healing for the hero and his broken world.

St. John’s College, Annapolis—Part 4: 9–11 and “The Waste Land” of Modern Healthcare

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September 11, 2015

Listen to the audio recording of Jim Bailey’s Friday Night Lecture at St. John’s College on 9–11 about “Dante and the Hero’s Quest for Healing” in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium. Part 4 shows how Dr. Don Newman, the protagonist in The End of Healing, discovers that the world of healthcare is upside down and how his hero’s journey to reclaim it also involves a journey through hell and a process of healing.