When Boxton-based Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical negligence, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted phsician who has endured grueling years of training and worked continuously in the service of tohers, he is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time with each one just to keep his office door open, he provides the kind of medical care he has been prepared to do, lavishing twenty-four-hour availability and personalized attention on his handpicked patients. And at last he is earning a significant income, no longer facing decreased reinbursements from insurance companies. But this idyllic situation comes to a grinding halt one sunny afternoon - and things get much, much worse.