Medicine Versus Power: Three Tales of Patient Survival

In an era when medicine no longer stands alone, physicians and patients alike find themselves battling forces far beyond the bedside. Politics, technology, and profit-each wielding authority and threatening to distort the fragile covenant between healer and patient. In these three gripping novellas, physician-author Arthur Lazarus delivers urgent, unsettling, and deeply human stories: - The Sealed Ward - When political power intrudes on the sanctity of pediatric care, doctors and families fight to protect the most vulnerable patients from a system intent on control.- The Algorithmic Accusation - A physician is put on trial by a patient's AI-generated complaint, in which truth and human judgment clash with machine confidence.- The Cost of Living - A working mother is priced out of survival as pharmaceutical markets exploit hope. Her physician and an insider ally struggle to push back against a system that sells life for $4,000 per month. These tales are not speculative fiction-they are today's headlines refracted through the lens of narrative medicine. Each story poses a piercing question: When medicine is forced to confront power, who survives? Both cautionary and compassionate, Medicine Versus Power continues Dr. Lazarus's tradition of exposing the fault lines in modern health care while upholding its most vital truth: the human spirit endures.