Well, this book kept me up reading late at night - couldn't stop. We have three main characters in this story. 1) Surgeon Nick Garrity is a vet suffering PTSD who drives around in a mobile medical unit dispensing medical treatment to the poor and homeless in D.C. and Baltimore. He is always on...
The Sperelakis family is composed of almost all doctors. The patriarch, Petros, was involved in a hit and run accident, and is almost a vegetable. His daughter, Thea, leaves Doctors Without Borders to come home to care for him. All he can do is move his eye a little. In the course of things, ...
At first it is not apparent how the medical aspect ties in with the political. Both make for great reading as individual stories and would hold up well on their own.Dr. Welcome's theory of the odd behavior displayed by some of the town's people was accepted way too easily by Sheriff Stone. I woul...
Another of Author Palmer's stand alone medical thrillers. Medical thriller - Dr. Thea Sperelakis returns to Boston when her father is struck by a car and put in a coma. She is urged to take her father's position at the hospital but some factions block her way. With security guard Dan, she looks f...
This is the first Michael Palmer book that I have read. He specializes in medical mysteries. The Second Opinion has a famous doctor father, alert and aware, however trapped within his comatose body. He has a story he needs to tell his asperger daughter, who is also a doctor. The plot itself ...
This was one of the few Michael Palmer books I'd not read previously, and I found it good, but nothing spectacular. As with his other books, the characters are unique to this one, so Palmer does spend a lot of time on character development throughout the book. I find this both good and bad. On th...
Need a fix while you’re waiting for Robin Cook to release his next medical thriller? Why not give Michael Palmer, Cook’s contemporary and former classmate, a read.Though he lacks Cook’s global acclaim, Palmer released his twelfth medical thriller this year with The Fifth Vial, a suspense-filled ...
I think this is my first medical thriller and I was not disappointed. Doctor Abby Dolan moves to the little town of Patience, California following her fiance in his job promotion. She starts work in the regional hospital and become embroiled in mysterious illness that have infected several member...
Brian Holbrook felt he was on the fast track to no where, as he was now a man with a checkered past. When he was a big shot heart doctor, he managed to get hooked on prescription medication, got busted and lost his license. In the process, he lost his wife and two daughters to divorce. But after ...
One thing I love about this author is I don't have to worry about reading them "in order", however, this one could use a sequel. Will Harry and Maura live happily ever after? I suppose after the excitement of this story, nothing they could do would compare. Harry's wife was having an brain aneuri...
Almost too complicated, villian-riddled plot thrills!We're fans of Palmer and have read most of his booklist, now standing at ten novels. We like his ability to describe medical complexities in plain enough terms to get us through but with plausible enough premises that the scare factor heightens...
4.5/5 stars.I truly adored this book overall! As a very seasoned & experienced RN (20+ yrs already!), I tend to really pick apart any story written in or about any type of healthcare situation. Obviously, the fact that Michael Palmer is a physician himself lends a whole entire level of credibilit...
The plan’s timetable had been changed, and everything had been pushed up by two days. To Cap’s dismay, the alteration meant less time to dust off his lock-picking skills. Deviating from his own rules, Papa Steve had called Lou to break the news. “We’re going on Sunday,” he had said, “not Tuesday....
It wasn’t the notion of captive wild animals he hated, it was the specific place itself-the National Zoo off Connecticut Avenue. He hated the commotion and the bratty children. He hated walking on an unending bed of peanut shells, and the overpriced crap food and cheap souvenirs. But mostly he ha...
Given the unpleasant exchange that had taken place with Charles Newcomber over the surgical referral for Grace Peng Davis, Will decided that a frontal assault on the man was the way to go rather than trying to call and set up an appointment. Shortly after Will left home for the drive to the cance...
- PLATO, The Republic, Book II Natalie spent the night in the back of the Jeep, parked in a public garage north of the city, using a duffel bag for a pillow and a tarp for a blanket. For six hours her tension and confusion battled with her physical and emotional exhaustion for possession of her a...
Louis Francis Welcome could do a lot of things well, but doing nothing was not one of them. His desk at the Washington, D.C. Physician Wellness Office, one of four cubicle work areas jammed inside 850 square feet, had never been so uncluttered. On a typical midafternoon, the voicemail light on Lo...
Any apparent resemblance to any person alive or dead, to any actual events, and to any actual institutions or organizations, is entirely coincidental. SIDE EFFECTS A Bantam BookPUBLISHING HISTORY Bantam edition published April 1985 Bantam reissue/February 1995 All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 7...
Still, during their drive through the chaotic late afternoon traffic, Eric was impressed with the bug’s élan. He was also relieved that the attorney had returned his flask to his suit-coat pocket after a single draught, and had shown no inclination toward another toast. There was too much at stak...
Half measures will avail us nothing. —LANCASTER R. HILL, 100 Neighbors, SAWYER RIVER BOOKS, 1939 His ringing cell phone roused Vaill from a dreamless sleep. Even before answering it, he began testing himself. Stiff sheets, unfamiliar mattress, LG TV propped up on the dresser at the foot o...