On spinal surgery

I've been reading a novel by Stephen King, another writer I've neglected for the past decade or close to two. I actually did read a very long pretty recent novel of his, The Dome, about a year ago. But in the early 1990s his writing changed. He got politically correct a really obnoxious extent, creating a character Dorothy Claibourne who was detestable in my opinion though presented as a hero. Then there was Gerald's Game, which had a terrific setup, but after making his politically correct point, he abandoned the story, as though he couldn't figure out how to get the woman out of the handcuffs before the maniac came upon her and killed her. He avoided the confrontation he'd been leading up to as though bored by such books. But such books are why he's so successful, not spinal surgery.