Rick Gadziola

Long before it cured disease, medicine aimed to relieve suffering-but despite that precedence, the relief of suffering often takes a back seat in today's biomedical research and treatment. Modern bioethics, too, has been slow to come to terms with suffering. Attention to ethical quandaries has sometimes displaced attention to the...

Jake Morgan loves Las Vegas. Hes a 33-year-old ex-cop from Boston who will wager on anything as long as his money holds out. Having run into trouble in Beantown, for the past year hes been eking out a living as a blackjack dealer at the posh Oasis Hotel & Casino. Christian Valentine, the star attraction of The Sultans Tent, tells Jake that hes...

?Jake Morgan just cant seem to win. In Drawing Dead, the Las Vegas poker dealer and ex-cop is dealt a hand by his casino boss and forced to play. A beautiful high roller, sick of her husband, takes a prescription of gambling and gamboling in Vegas to cure herself. She finds her medicine Morgan. He reluctantly plays hotel gigolo, and ends up in...