For 30 years as a loyal manager, Dan Northam (not his real name) meticulously climbed the corporate ladder at a large health care company (the fictional Portmel Preferred). Then, he went in to a medical center owned by his employer, purportedly for a routine outpatient procedure. However, hours later, after a doctor employed by the same company botched an unexpected surgery that almost cost Northam his life, the patient emerged severely harmed. Mere months later, Northam, a trusted executive, saw his position eliminated and was fired. The series of events turned this soft-spoken middle manager into the ultimate whistleblower, as he filed separate lawsuits alleging medical malpractice and wrongful termination. Ride with Dan Northam in the ambulance rushing him to a second facility where he underwent ordeal after ordeal to keep him alive, then sit alongside him as the gripping, gory details are re-lived in ongoing depositions and declarations. Northam got justice -- or did he? What affected him could happen to anybody in today's uncertain health care climate. You are invited to delve into BOTCHED BLOODING but, caution, you will easily be able to imagine yourself walking in this man's path to edge of death, and from a comfortable existence to near-poverty.