Outliers
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“Your job is to follow our protocols that make certain that those to be repurposed arrive at their repurposing stations as directed,” PX2357 said. “As a bit less than half of those awaiting reclamation are frozen, they will be stored in the freezer at their respective facilities. The other 60% or so are still out in the community. They consist of subjects who have experienced critical microchip failures that were irremediable by reprogramming, clones who have outlived their purposes, human originals who were destined to be reclaimed once a clone for them had been created, humans or clones that are chosen for elimination by AMRS algorithms in order to improve our population health, and those who have committed crimes necessitating the death penalty. Those who die of natural causes are typically flash-frozen and are reclaimed after the legal waiting period of five days. Each repurposing station can reclaim over five hundred units every twenty-four hours. The Repurposing and Reclamation Laboratories operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and each state has at least two of them. Some of the largest populated and the geographically largest states have up to four such stations."
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Outliers is the story of a physician assistant's (Kyle Sanderson PA-C) and his supervising physician's (Lucas Moses, M.D.) quest to discover how and why their patients insured by Americare are dying inexplicably, to bring this to an end, and to bring those responsible to justice. It is also the story of conflicted love between Kyle and an Americare administrator, and then between Kyle and Luke, with Kyle, eventually realizing the Luke is the true love of his life. “Find out who did this to all of us, and why,” the ghost of 17-year-old Sean MacDonald implores Kyle Sanderson, PA-C as he sits bolt upright on the autopsy table, gazing deeply into Kyle’s eyes. Sean’s earthly remains lay splayed wide open on the wet, cold steel autopsy table with the sounds of running water in its gutters and the ambient sounds of Bach playing softly in the background. Kyle later realizes that other patients have also been unexpectedly dying, each one insured by Americare ¬ the government-owned and operated health insurance plan developed by president Dmopvup, that is out-competing all other insurance plans on the marketplace. Kyle has a hunch that something of a sinister nature is occurring. His colleague and supervising physician, Dr. Lucas Moses [Luke] agrees. The pair embarks on an investigation, with Kyle leading the way, being guided by Sean’s ghost. They discover a vast and intricate scheme perpetrated by the president that is using the healthcare system to generate power, influence, and personal income at the expense of people’s health and their lives. Will the two survive, and will they be able to discover exactly what is going on, bring this scheme to an end, and bring those responsible to justice?
About the Author
Geoffrey A. Lundy, M.D practiced medicine until 2015, when his career was cut short by a spinal deformity that rendered him disabled. Prior to his disability, Dr. Lundy was engaged in the full-time practice of internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic in Manchester and Bedford, New Hampshire, where he also served as Department Chair for the Adult Primary Care Department at the clinic. He was a Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and was actively engaged in the education of medical students, which was his passion. At the age of fifty-five (in 2015) Dr. Lundy sought to reinvent himself, to give him some sense of purpose and usefulness. He chose to do this through writing. After recovering from his fourth spinal reconstructive surgery, he began writing Outliers while vacationing on Cape Cod in August of 2015. He completed Outliers on June 8, 2022. Dr. Lundy is a graduate of Colgate University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics. He went on to receive his M.D. at Tufts University School of Medicine, graduating as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed two years of surgical residency, and then he changed course completing his internal medicine residency at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA. He remained on staff at Mount Auburn Hospital for two years working in a group practice, also as an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 1997 he relocated to New Hampshire. He was in a private group practice until January 2008, when he joined the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic. Presently Dr. Lundy lives in Cape Coral, Florida with Thomas Ouellette, and their two Pugs, Saffron (Saffy) and Piper. They are hoping to marry, soon.