Second Opinion: a Medical Novel Based on a True Case

Confronted with severe heart pain, Rodolfo Marquez MD goes to his best friends for treatment. A few months after his heart surgery, the heart pain returns. His friends decide there is nothing else to do. Rodolfo goes to a different city for a Second Opinion and discovers that all his bypasses have been placed on the wrong arteries. As he consults local doctors, he finds non of them wants to get involved in his case. Affraid of any legal or financial repercussions, they abandon him to his fate. The pain worsens; death seems imminent. Rodolfo, finally, goes to an out of state university and gets his heart treated. At his return, he finds the local doctors and his hospital had turn against him.