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.