BEDRIDDEN
upcoming novella
How Much Would You Risk for the Breakthrough of a Lifetime?
Fresh out of medical school and uncertain what to do next, Dr. Calvin Bloom decides to take a road trip across the United States and spend a year focusing on his writing. What he expects to be a liberating adventure of self-discovery, however, is instead overshadowed by a mysterious illness that threatens to break him both physically and mentally.
Feeling helpless and defeated, Calvin returns home to Boston to recover, only to discover that the botched adventure was not in vain. In the end, the breakdown led him to a breakthrough—a better understanding of himself and what he wants to do with his life.
Under the mentorship of a retired unconventional medical doctor, Calvin opens the Bloom Center, an alternative mental health clinic in the woods of Concord. It’s his first patient, though, who pushes him to begin Project Breakthrough: a revolutionary approach to healing that sparks radical personality changes. The therapy? Making people sick.
Bedridden explores the deep connection between the mind and the body, as well as the boundaries between medical science and ethics. Follow Dr. Calvin Bloom as he explores the relationship between illness and post-traumatic growth, and struggles to determine just how far is too far.