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Ballerina Nicole Hudson
has courageously overcome a heartbreakingly lonely and
disadvantaged childhood to become a
famous Broadway dancer. She has a secret admirer, who
attends her performances and sends her passionate letters
and beautiful flowers. His writings hint at a great aspiration in his life and
at his
despair at obstacles thwarting him from achieving it. He
tells Nicole how her exuberant spirit inspires him in his
struggle, and she is
stirred by his sentiments.
Her secret admirer is Manhattan neurosurgeon David Lang, who believes that he has
discovered a way of regrowing injured nerve tissue to cure
paralysis and other neurological disorders. His
revolutionary treatment requires the consent of CareFree, New York
State's government-run health system. Because of budget
overruns, red tape, and other priorities, CareFree does
not approve the new procedure. David feels a growing
frustration in his career, as well as in his marriage to Marie
Lang, a model CareFree doctor who nags him to give up his
research and play by the rules. Marie’s compliance with
CareFree boosts her career, while her husband’s mounting
fines and censure for disobeying the regulations threatens
her professional success and embarrasses her. David’s
unsigned letters to the lovely Nicole become his way of
escaping his problems and expressing his deepest thoughts
and dreams.
In a terrible accident, Nicole suffers a permanently disabling nerve
injury that shatters her career and life. She is
a perfect candidate for David’s treatment. Although
CareFree will not authorize his procedure, David believes
it safe to test on a human. Gaining approval through the
system will take years, but Nicole’s condition must be
treated immediately. She does not know that the young
neurosurgeon whose experiments offer her only chance of
recovery is also her secret admirer.
CareFree’s refusal to allow David’s new procedure brings the surgeon
into a heated battle with the state’s secretary of
medicine. With
pressures from the governor to keep the financially
troubled CareFree afloat and to demonstrate its benefits
to the voters, the secretary’s decisions about treatment
the system will provide seem contingent on what will
garner the most votes—which exclude expensive new
procedures needed by only a few. That leaves David and
Nicole out of luck—or does it?
Ultimately, David Lang must risk everything to
fight for his career and the woman he loves. He
and Nicole wage an inspiring battle for their freedom and
individuality.
Noble Vision
is published by Winged Victory Press, Chicago, 352 pages.
Hardcover: ISBN 0974457981, $27.95. Softcover: ISBN
0974457949, $14.95.
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