When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he is shocked, enraged and humiliated. Working continuously in the service of others, he has endured gruelling years of training before eventually becoming a partner in an exclusive medical practice. No longer having to deal with ever more patients while inevitably giving less time to each one, he now provides the kind of medical care he is trained to do, lavishing twenty-four-hour personal attention on a limited number of handpicked clients. But this idyllic situation grinds to a halt one sunny afternoon... and things are about to get much, much worse.