Author Henry Rex Greene

05/10/2025

Novels of Henry Rex Greene: henryrexgreeneauthor.com

The Class of 1969 ISBN 978-1-3104-4 Published 2012 iUniverse
Thirteen Months a Year ISBN 978-1-68181-907-5 Published 2017 SBPRA
Stone Mother ISBN 978-1-68181-361-5 Published 2016 SBPRA
Executive Committee ISBN 978-1-4809-5588-2 Published 2018 Dorrance Publishing
Executive Vengeance ISBN 978-1-6823-5479-5 Published 2021 SBPRA
Executive Justice ISBN 978-1-63410-237-7 Published 2024 SBPRA (Distribution discontinued)
Life Could be a Dream ISBN 978-1-68235-691-3 Published 2022 SBPRA
Pasadena: 1984 ISBN 978-1-68235-907-5 Published 2023 SBPRA
Marlene ISBN 978-1-63410-247-6 Published 2024 SBPRA
Camelot Lost ISBN 978-1-63410-231-5 Published 2024 SBPRA
The Bookmen ISBN 978-1-68235-970-9 Published 2024 SBPRA
The Drug Dealer ISBN 978-1-63410-290-2 Published 2025 SBPRA

Pending: Venoms

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The Drug Dealer, Healthcare, Addiction Evergreen Script Services 3/31/25 The Drug Dealer, Healthcare, Addiction Evergreen Script Services 3/31/25 The Drug Dealer My travels gave me a glimpse of a future in which law enforcement blocked legitimate research and imposed the criminal justice system on t...

11/17/2024

My new blog
I attended my 62nd HS reunion recently, and one of my classmates mentioned a lifelong learning group she attended. Great idea. Years ago I wrote an article on wealth management for young physicians and emphasized that their most valuable asset was their professional degree. They should not let it degrade by spending inordinate time on side ventures.
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Evergreen Script Services 11/15/24 Evergreen Script Services 11/15/24 Why Do I Write? What my years of medical practice have given me is the privilege of bearing witness to the lives of thousands of human beings. I saw them at their most difficult moments and observed the quiet courage with which mo...

09/17/2024

Super-spammers
Eight spam calls for Medicare Advantage (sic) this morning! Does anyone believe companies that use sleazy, crooked marketing sell legitimate products? They exploit the unclear boundary between state and federal regulation of insurance. Even if you are lucky enough to have a decent "advantage" plan, why sponsor this criminal conspiracy? My sales calls all have phony phone numbers with Ohio area codes. (Criminal deception). When I ask where they are calling from, they hang up. Why? They are overseas calls routed through dummy phone numbers. END THIS FRAUD!

09/10/2024

Medi-Spam
I received six spam calls this morning from phony phone numbers pitching Medicare Advantage (sic) Plans. This is private insurance run amok financed by our tax dollars. There is no evidence that it saves the government a penny. The marketing is ethically dubious. The calls are from overseas boiler rooms (most callers have Pilipino accents), but they hang up when I ask where they're calling from. DO YOU REALLY WANT TO PATRONIZE THESE SLIMY BUSINESSES? THEY MAKE A FORTUNE BY LIMITING ACCESS AND DENYING CARE. (They also call at ungodly hours.) CAVEAT EMPTOR! You get what you pay for.
Rex

09/06/2024

More Novels Coming

I have two novels in final publication, which makes my total count ten. It’s hard to believe. The latest is Executive Justice, which completes my “Executive” trilogy of the travails of Cal and Carol Boyd. It is set in the future when the red states secede from the union. Cal’s stepson, Charley is a Coalition (blue state) spy in Florida tracking Russian extortion rackets (ransomware) that financially support the new Confederation (red states).

The other new novel is Camelot Lost, the Kennedy years through the eyes of Max King and his friends/acquaintances/lovers. The new president gradually builds the confidence of a new idealistic generation with his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis and his development of the space program. He promises to expand civil rights. Just at the point that young people are truly optimistic about his presidency—you know the rest.

Writing has been an enjoyable pastime in my (almost) post-retirement years. I was always a frustrated English major passing myself off as a scientifically trained physician. My head is stuffed with stories, and friends have told me to write them down. Yours to obey. They just pour out of my brain. Maybe writing will forestall developing Alzheimer’s. Who knows?

Those that read my oeuvre have responded favorably (see Amazon reviews referenced in my FB author section). When you have read one of my novels, please write a review—favorable or not.

“The moving hand doth write and having writ moves on.”

Rex
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09/03/2024

Medicare Disadvantage
Does anyone wonder how bad Medicare Advantage (the private insurance version) must be if it takes dozens of boiler rooms calling from overseas to sell it? Every day I get 4-5 spam calls from phony phone numbers (from my former area code) claiming to be my "Medicare advisor."

What’s their advice? Buy the junk they are selling for high commissions. Somehow, I doubt that Ohio is a mecca of Medicare sales jobs. Most likely the calls are from Mumbai or Manila, routed through local numbers.

BTW, did you wonder how they can offer all those nice rewards? They routinely deny benefits. My experience (when I was practicing in Ohio) was routine denial of tests and expensive therapies. The program doesn’t save Medicare any money because they sell to the younger, least sick beneficiaries, who often have no need for any care. They make a fortune pocketing your part A, B and D premiums and doing nothing. Buyer beware!
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08/10/2024

Democratic Passivity

It’s time to go beyond handwringing. In plain sight the Republicans promote a scheme to put Trump back in office by fraudulent means. Their plan is to throw the election into the House of Representatives by sabotaging electoral college certification in enough states that the necessary 270 votes are denied the popular vote winner. If the results of the last two elections are predictive, the Democrat will win once again with a large majority of the popular vote but a narrower margin of the electoral vote.

This is the transparent Republican strategy: If the popular vote winner fails to receive 270 electoral votes the House of Representatives decides the election. Their count isn’t proportional to population (electoral votes); it’s one vote per state, a Trump victory. No doubt, as happened in 2020, they plan to contaminate the certification of state electoral votes by any means, such as fake electors.

Moreover, the Supreme Court will bless this outrage. In the face of this chicanery the Democratic Party has no visible strategy. Whine, complain, run to the courts. We’ve already been there. The 2020 election was adjudged the CLEANEST election ever (by Trump’s analyst). All the Republican challenges to the outcome failed! What’s coming this year is no surprise—more of same with the collusion of Republican dominated state governments.

It is meant to exploit a technicality and steal a lost election. It happened once before in 1876 when James Tilden won the popular vote and had a twenty-point electoral vote lead with 21 disputed votes from southern states. The House worked out a compromise and awarded all the votes to Hays, who won 185: 184. The compromise (of 1877) ended the Reconstruction era in exchange for Hayes’ election.

We will face the same situation this November. Harris wins the popular vote handily, but enough electoral votes are “in dispute” that she does not reach 270 electoral votes. By vote of the House Trump will be installed. If it is appealed to the Supremes, they will rubber stamp the result even if blatant fraud contaminated the electoral vote count in certain states.

My question is, what will we do about it? To what extent will Democrats play Mr. Nice Guy once again. Al Gore was a gentleman, who did not exhaust his legal remedies but was cut short by a purely partisan decision of the Supreme court. The installation of George W. Bush presaged a series of policy blunders from which we have not yet recovered.

Based on Trumps’ first term and the horrifying 2025 Project his presidency will end democracy in this country and establish an oligarchic plutocracy. My challenge to all those who find that outcome unacceptable is what do we do about it?

First, we can win enough electoral votes that Trump’s sabotage fails. (Best case.) Secondly, our political leaders must not allow a House vote to decide the election. What sort of Compromise of 2025 can we extract, the result of which is that Trump goes home to Mira-Lago and is never seen again. Finally, (worst case) the states that voted for Harris refuse to recognize the election of Trump. This verges on secession, but the time may have come.

The blue states subsidize the red states. Let them go it alone without our tax dollars. An inter-state tax embargo could be a non-violent means to corral the delusional red states that believe cheating democracy is a way to win. Let’s hope it doesn’t get to that.

Rex

08/07/2024

Brevity by Michael Jon Lundell

It's out! My lifelong best friend, Michael Lundell's Masterpiece has been published. Available on Amazon (Michael Jon Lundell), it's five hundred pages of the best of Proust, Camus, and Vonnegut--written in Michael's incomparable stream of consciousness style. Get started, and you can't stop. I'm proud to have helped get it into print. (I will include it on my website in a week or so.)

Brevity is an ethereal contemplation on mortality and all that goes with it. It is the point of view of an aging professor diagnosed with cancer. He reflects on the steps and missteps in his past life--especially the charismatic women with whom he has had relationships of various durations.

His reflections drift from medieval kingdoms to contemporary life. He is at times sarcastic, sardonic, and always witty. As he drifts through his present-day problems, he spends much time on reviewing his past life and drawing universal lessons for those facing death.

In constant pain, he finds comfort in his "yellow pills," which doctors grudgingly prescribe. His thoughts at times resemble a surreal o***m dream, but he snaps back to the grim reality that he faces as he drifts downward. He has more questions than answers. His profundity springs from his uncanny perception of the ironies embedded in life. He finds no "answer," but accepts his fate. Sort of.

Congratulations. Michael!

It can be bought from the publisher SBPRA or Amazon. After reading, please write a review.

07/06/2024

I'll vote for Joe Biden if he stays in the race

I love Joe Biden and I believe he's been an outstanding president and shown true character and decency. I think his advisors have fumbled twice in his election campaign and undermined his credibility for no reason. His interview today didn't dispel the legitimate criticisms of his physical and mental capacity to serve another four years. However, if he did a Weekend at Bernie's for the next four years, he would be an infinitely better president than the Orange Sociopath. From now on he should simplify his campaign (if he chooses to continue).

Campaign pitch: "I am a decent man." (Clip of Lindsey Graham extolling his virtues.) "I am not a convicted felon, s*x abuser, pathological liar or fraudulent grifter. I have been an excellent president (skip the litany of achievements; it's obvious) and I know how to do the job. I admit that I am old. My step isn't spry. My voice isn't stentorian, none of which is essential to guide this country and lead the free world in the face of rising tyranny abroad and threatened tyranny at home. America has two obvious choices, authoritarianism or an expanding, vibrant democracy. For most of us the choice is obvious."

06/14/2024

Closing out the Executive Committee Trilogy. I have submitted Executive Justice to my publisher. It sat for two years because of my unhappiness with the ending. I've tweaked it, and it is now a timely look at the near future when America splits into two countries after Trump's next failed election. I believe that my dystopic vision of the country is credible and scary. My characters, Cal Boyd and Carol travel to Florida when their son, Charley is arrested as a Coalition spy in the new Confederation. Many complications ensue. It's a fitting wrap-up for the trilogy. I enjoyed writing all three as they aren't my usual medical themed material. Enjoy.
Rex
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05/26/2024

ABMS is an Extortion Racket Gouging Physicians and Increasing the cost of Health Care

I have always had more than enough CME to renew my state licenses, but I have refused to "recertify" my boards in internal medicine, Hematology, and Oncology because I was granted LIFETIME status when I passed my boards in the seventies.

As an active specialist I see no need to recertify Internal Medicine as it is the foundation for my specialties. BTW, I taught all three specialties at USC for 25 years and have always kept up via online services like UpToDate. Below is a recent example that would make the mafia proud. To quote Gordon Gecko, "Greed is good."

From Doximity: Aaron Goodman, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, agreed with NBPAS’s suggestion to report ABMS using the new online portal. Similar to most hematologists and medical oncologists, Dr. Goodman received his certification from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), which is part of ABMS. He first received his internal medicine certification in 2014 and then achieved his hematology and oncology board certifications in 2017.

Because he no longer needed his internal medicine certification, he let it expire this year. In April, he was told that he was no longer certified to practice medicine for his 600 active patients, even though his certifications in hematology and oncology do not expire until 2027. To have his certification reinstated, he had to pay ABIM $2,200.

“All I had to do was [pay] some money, and all of the sudden, I’m magically certified to be a bone marrow transplant physician again [after] paying internal medicine fees that I purposely let lapse because I decided to not keep up with three boards,” said Dr. Goodman.

Dr. Goodman said that he thinks HealthyCompetititon.gov is a good first step in addressing the type of issue that he experienced. The FTC said that it expects the website to evolve, but “remain accessible to the American public for the foreseeable future.”

Dr. Goodman reported a consulting relationship with Seattle Genetics.

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05/23/2024

Pusillanimity (Warning: political rant)
Nikki Haley’s abrupt decision to support Trump after all that had gone on between them has been a source of extreme cognitive dissonance. Sure, one can recall numerous flip-flops among past opponents of the former president: Ted Cruz, Linsey Graham, et. al. A cynic would say that craven is a synonym for politician. Perhaps so, but I see a consistent thread dating back to the nineteen thirties. Loyalty to the cause surpassing personal needs. Without a request for forgiveness, how else forgive the attacks on wives, spouses, dead veterans and family pets?

One must examine history at times like this. Prior to WWII we could not intercede because of a powerful “America First” movement of crypto-fascism. The cover story was isolationism and xenophobia, ugly aspects of our early 20th century history. We were to stay out of “foreign wars.” Understandable, based on the hideous carnage of World War One. Well, the Japanese obliged FDR when they attacked Pearl Harbor, provoking outrage after a “sneak attack” amplified by anti-Asian xenophobia. A theory floats around out there that he baited them into attacking with his oil embargo and other policies tantamount to a blockade.

Even after the war started, we turned away Jewish refugees. The domestic fascist movement went underground among some right-wing groups, but it never went away. Moreover, the industrial build-up for the war ended the Depression and stimulated a generation of robust economic growth that created a prosperous middle class which only needed one worker to enjoy the good things in life. Fascism persisted in a sort of isolationism de convenance, get out the UN. Get out of NATO. Paranoia about “the border” even when it risks collapse of the agriculture industry for lack of workers.

Nowadays the old, ugly ideas have boiled up to the surface. One political party explicitly denies the validity of democracy. They take babies from their undocumented mothers at the border. They perform racial gerrymandering and try to quash the right to vote. Unhappy about the 2020 presidential election they perpetuate an egregious lie that a demented candidate somehow brilliantly stole the election. Some of them took up arms to block the certification of the election. Others recruited phony electors to create a pretext to stop congressional certification of results for which no electoral fraud could be identified.

As with any authoritarian movement, they must subjugate their personality to the Dear Leader. Anything that stands in his way must be destroyed. Alliances be damned. Laws be damned. Lawbreakers are “hostages.” Our foremost enemy has the ear of the pretender, who will serve his ends. We’ll have a dictator “for a day.” His acolytes and sycophants will take it from there. All must be sacrificed for the cause. (Except for taxing the riches of the ultra-wealthy). This is an environment in which demagoguery thrives and violence prospers. Despite a strong, growing economy we are revisiting the America of the thirties. The rhetoric may invoke foreign invaders, but we’re doing this all by ourselves.