SplintRod

 Splintrod is a story of a highly respected doctor that goes bad. This is a story about a young Betsey Stratfork who at the age of 12 was involved in an auto accident with the richest man in town who blames her for the accident. Her legs were destroyed. He was so unrepentant he refused to provide any assistance for her injuries. Making matter worse, the town’s people had to take up a collection to buy her a wheel chair. With her legs destroyed and relegated to a wheel chair she excelled in school and pursued a career in the medical field. She’s accepted to a prestigious college and over the course of her life establishes a new field of medicine called Bone Manipulation. Now, as Dr. Stratfork she creates treatments and devises that repair leg bone injuries and birth defects. She establishes the New Era Institute where she improves the lives of many patients. In the course of her life, living in constant pain and spending most of her time in a wheel chair, she is subject to many instances of discrimination. She is dismissed, turned down and not taken seriously in a number of cases. Seeds of anger grow within her toward the elites who feel that they are entitled. During a routine doctors visit she learns that she has inoperable Kidney cancer. To make matters worse, the cause of the cancer is determined to be from the pain medications she has taken her whole life due to the accident. She snaps and vows revenge. She realizes the elites are too powerful to take on directly so she devises a sadistic plan to punish them using their children. Several of the worst offenders have their boys enrolled in a very elite college where they excel academically and are super star soccer players. The college just so happens to be named after Bradford Stilton, the man who destroyed her legs. Having large investments in the Soccer leagues, the parents desperately want their boys to have professional soccer careers. Dr. Stratfork conveniences several of the parents to allow her to perform treatments on their son’s legs intended to improve there soccer playing performance. Advantage over others at any cost, drives their decision. Dr. Stratfork has no intention of improving the boy’s performance. She uses her machine to perform horrible treatments on the boys destroying their legs. After one of the boy’s escapes the facility, she decides to take their lives. During her trial for murder, she successfully avoids jail by faking insanity. She is remanded to a mental institution where, with an accomplice, she hatches a plan to exact the final punishment on the parents.