Not Another Sentinel Event
A Mystery/Medical Thriller Novel
Jules M. Seletz, M.D.

THE BOOK

Not Another Sentinel Event is the second in a series of fictional medical thriller novels that deal with untoward incidents, mishaps, and catastrophic outcomes, known as sentinel events, that in reality turn out to be nefarious deeds perpetrated by people from different walks of life.

An unanticipated death in an Intensive Care Unit in a small community hospital in Fort Kent, Maine, on the Canadian Border, triggers a visit from Dr. Jacob Stein, a physician surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - JCAHO.

While in Fort Kent, Jake uncovers a plot to steal narcotics from the hospital. Although this is not another sentinel event, other events, including a brutal beating of a nurse and two murders, lead to Jake's becoming involved in an investigation into a para-military group that moves back and forth across the Canadian border while planning a terrorist-type action in the small community.

When Jake's wife, Rhoda, is in danger of being killed as part of a catastrophic event, Jake must find a seemingly impossible way out of his own life-endangering predicament to not only save Rhoda, but prevent this crisis from happening to the community.

THE AUTHOR

Jules M. Seletz graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1953 as a second lieutenant, and the Chicago Medical School in 1958 with an MD. Following five years of post-graduate training at the Boston City Hospital, he practiced as a General and Peripheral Vascular Surgeon for 35 years.

He enjoyed a 41-year military career in the United States Army, rising to the rank of full colonel, having served as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery in 1953 during the Korean Conflict; and then to Morocco in North Africa, West Germany, and Botswana in Sub-Sahara Africa; and finally to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in Southwest Asia during Desert Storm as a military surgeon. Retired from the United States Army in 1994 while stationed at West Point, Dr. Seletz is now in his seventh year as a physician surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - JCAHO.

JCAHO is the nationally and internationally accepted accrediting body for the Healthcare Industry. For the past four years, Dr. Seletz has had several occasions to survey hospitals who have experienced untoward incidents, mishaps, catastrophic outcomes - sentinel events.

Dr. Seletz lives in Lincoln, New Hampshire, in the heart of the White Mountains where he enjoys skiing and mountain hiking with his wife of Acadian heritage. Together, they have seven children and ten grandchildren. In addition to five novels that involve sentinel events - Sentinel Event; Not Another Sentinel Event; Code Pink, A Sentinel Event; West Point's Sentinel Event; and Sentinel Event on the High Seas - he has also written three historical fiction novels. Pass in Review is a quartet of historical fiction that mirrors his own life during the twentieth century tracing the technical progress of transportation and communication. The four books that begin with his father's emigration from Russia at the turn of the last century and end with the new millennium are: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Jacob's Ladder; Jacob's Travels; and Jacob's Novels. A second historical fiction novel describes the plight of the Acadians following expulsion from Nova Scotia during the French and Indian War in 1755 and their survival in Northern Maine until 1955 - Pulp, Potatoes, and Ployes. The third one describes the establishment of a sawmill town in White Mountains of Northern New Hampshire during the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century - Lincoln Logs.

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