"An acknowledgment should be made to the pharmaceutical industry, the banking industry, the insurance industry, organized religion, the criminal justice system, bureaucracies in general, and the paradigm of medicine that punishes physicians economically if they think for themselves. I must also thank the County of Peoria in the State of Illinois for their kindness in allowing me to purchase the court transcripts that make up a significant section of this book. While this book is a work of fiction, many of the events described are real. I feel I must acknowledge these entities’ contributions because, without their greed, arrogance, and avarice, I would never have been able to describe or even imagine the events depicted in this story."

David A Dawson