Published: Nov. 18, 2012
Words: 89,407 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780985663025

Short description

To maintain his life style and pay for his wife’s experimental cancer therapy Dr. Paul Ochs slowly slides down the slippery slope of Medicare fraud. His arrogance exposes him to a side of life previously unknown to him. Sent to a maximum security prison his life is altered in unpredictable ways as he struggles to find a new direction. A life that almost ends before the answer appears.

Extended description

The practice of medicine has changed. Doctors are no longer the revered and respected figures of old. With prestige and incomes shrinking many doctors scramble to maintain an opulent life style that they and their family feel entitled to. Dr. Paul Ochs is no exception and so begins his slide down the slippery slope of Medicare fraud. He turns to pills to keep going until a friend, fearing for his competence and safety, sabotages him. His arrogance leads to an introduction to a side of life hidden from him heretofore. In prison he meets Rene, his self-appointed protector who reluctantly helps him escape in an ill-fated attempt to win back his wife. Sent to a maximum security prison his life is altered in unpredictable ways as he struggles to find a new direction. A life that almost ends before the answer appears.

Tags

prison, africa, medicare fraud, bad doctors, medicine redemption, money or meaning

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Review by: Helen Elza on Feb. 17, 2013 :
David Hayme's debut novel reads like the work of a seasoned master and with the speed of classic James Patterson. Not at all what I expected, the book delivers so much more. Readers will identify themselves in the pages.

An analysis of human motivations, of the choices that dictate our lives, the book is a banquet of wit, wisdom and insight. The surprise is that every sentence pulses with compassion, with the honesty and emotion of a human heart beat.

The prison inmate language is raw and angry but fortifies the book's message; No man is so lost that he can't be found; no sinner so unworthy that he can't be forgiven, no life so wasted that it can't be redeemed.

In following the metamorphosis of Dr. Paul Ochs from his wealthy, god-like position among the privileged North Dallas elite to the bottom bunk in a prison cell with all his earthly possessions in a 2'X 2' box we experience the metamorphosis.

First You Pay is a mirror that examines our hidden selves and then slaps us with the verdict--guilty! Who among us is not guilty of pride, arrogance, greed, and self-absorption? How many kids do you know will lament "Yeah, my parents were there but they weren't really there." Our guilt extends to abandoning the less fortunate, the "less desirable" and to shunning the less-than-perfect.

In the church pews and in the halls of industry we find no shortage of despair for they are filled with the families of inmates whom have succumbed, individually and collectively to hopelessness.

David Haymes' First you Pay is a celebration and proclamation of HOPE. HOPE for you, HOPE for me, HOPE for them.

J. Helen Elza
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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