Painful: One Doctor's Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic and Big Pharma

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Ryan Sharpe is a struggling anesthesiologist trying to pay off his massive student loan debt when he lands a highly lucrative expert job defending Dr. Richard Washington, CEO of the largest chain of pain clinics in the southeast. Ryan quickly learns the dark side of the success of Dr. Washington's pain clinic empire when he discovers a deadly addictive opioid, Ultracodone, is being inappropriately prescribed at his clinics. Ryan's ethics as a physician compel him to inform Dr. Washington about the unethical prescribing, but Dr. Washington is unmoved. After confronting Dr. Washington, Ryan's personal and professional life spirals out of control as his family's lives are threatened by a mysterious Irishman claiming to work for Dr. Washington. Desperate and fearing for their lives, Ryan makes a plan for he and his wife to disappear. Their plan takes an unexpected turn when the Irishman kidnaps his wife to insure Ryan's allegiance. Ryan must now risk everything if he is to save his wife and successfully execute their plan to begin a new life as new people. Whitesides unites the medical and legal thriller in one fast-paced, plot twisting tale of personal pain, professional deception, and corporate malfeasance as one doctor fights for his life against an unethical doctor and Big Pharma