Charleston-based Dr. Roger Newman writes medical thrillers AND historical fiction – he’ll be featured on our Thriller panel and again in the afternoon out on Hutchinson Square with his latest work, The Boys.
Sooner or later, everyone must confront the dilemma of doing what’s right versus doing what’s smart. Occam’s Razor is set against the backdrop of the Operation Jackpot federal sting that targeted a billion dollars worth of marijuana coming ashore through the sieve of inlets and marshes along the South Carolina coast.
Declan Murphy, a popular Ob-Gyn physician at the Medical University of South Carolina, is called to the Emergency Department to see a young woman with a pelvic straddle injury. Helene Eastland is Declan’s former high school girlfriend and daughter of the powerful and sexually abusive state governor. Helene has fallen in with the Jackpot smugglers and is now trapped between her father’s plan to commit her to the State Mental Hospital and the Jackpot prosecutors who want her testimony against the smuggling kingpins.
Declan decides the only option is to help Helene flee her father’s snare and the Jackpot subpoena. On the run, Declan and Helene develop an inappropriate doctor-patient intimacy, which puts both Helene and Declan in jeopardy. After a week in hiding, Helene disappears, leaving Declan to face the personal and professional consequences of his actions. Declan faces off against the Dean, the University President, and the Governor. The choice is clear. Fail Helene once again, or lose his medical license and career.
Roger Newman, M.D. is a novelist, academic Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and member of the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Newman is a tenured Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maas Endowed Chair for Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Newman grew up in Columbia, S.C. and attended Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He returned to South Carolina to attend MUSC and stayed in Charleston for his residency training in Ob-Gyn. He followed his residency with a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Newman then returned to the academic faculty at MUSC where he continues to practice.
Roger Newman, M.D. is a nationally known leader in Ob-Gyn; selected as one of the “Best Doctors in America” by Woodward and White each year for the past three decades. He has been a South Carolina Chair for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, President of the South Carolina Ob-Gyn Society and an editor for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Newman is considered an expert on the care of women with twins, triplets or higher-order gestations. He has written the multiple gestation chapters in most of the major Ob-Gyn textbooks and co-authored a book entitled Multifetal Pregnancy: A Handbook for the Care of the Pregnant Patient. Dr. Newman is a co-author with Dr. Barbara Luke and Tamara Eberlein of the best-selling When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads.
Roger Newman is married and has three exceptional children. He and his wife Diane live on the Ashley River in Charleston, South Carolina. Besides medicine and writing, his other passion is sports and his other “job” is coaching the women’s varsity basketball team (Raptors) at the Academic Magnet High School, and the Sun Devils at the Charleston Collegiate School. He serves on the executive board of the JLP Foundation working to make year-round basketball education accessible to all student athletes in the Lowcountry, while emphasizing the importance of nutrition and social competency.