Haunted by personal tragedy and living off the grid, New Orleans surgeon Dr. Benjamin “Doc” Brash is reluctantly drawn into investigating the suspicious deaths of his former medical school classmates. Partnering with former FBI agent Miranda Montgomery, he must confront buried secrets, political pressure, and a dangerous moral legacy before another member of their past is silenced.

SYNOPSIS:

Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, The Hypocritical Oath is a character-driven medical thriller that explores what happens when doctors cross the line between healing and harm.

Decades earlier, a group of idealistic medical students at Charity Hospital forged a secret pact, a dark inversion of the Hippocratic Oath, vowing to end unbearable suffering when medicine failed. What began as compassion quietly evolved into moral compromise.

In the present day, former classmates begin dying under suspicious circumstances. Dr. Benjamin “Doc” Brash, a brilliant surgeon living in self-imposed exile after the deaths of his wife and daughter, is reluctantly pulled back into a world he abandoned. Teaming with Miranda Montgomery, a former FBI agent sidelined by her own Katrina-era reckoning, Doc uncovers a pattern suggesting the past is no longer buried, it’s hunting them.

Told through a layered, non-linear structure spanning medical school in the late 1960s, Hurricane Katrina, and a present-day investigation, the series examines how ethical shortcuts echo across decades. As the body count rises, Doc and Miranda confront a chilling truth: the killer isn’t driven by chaos, but by ideology, one rooted in warped notions of mercy, strength, and control.

At its core, The Hypocritical Oath asks a dangerous question:

What happens when doctors decide who deserves to live, and who doesn’t?

THE HYPOCRITICAL OATH BY FREDERICK N. LUKASH, MD