HEAL THYSELF

billionaire physician Patrick SoonShiong is an ambitious man who believes, amid considerable skepticism, that his array of health care startups can revolutionize cancer treatment. More recently he has trained his surgical loupes on the ailing newspaper industry. soon-shiong has become a major investor in tronc, the publicly traded parent of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, and is embroiled in an increasingly contentious standoff with its board over the company’s direction.