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    The Patient
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    The Patient

    Written by Michael Palmer

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    His name is ARTIE, a miracle of bio-engineering that is about to transform the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Jessie Copeland knows him better than anyone else at Eastern Mass Medical Center- and knows it's too soon to be using the tiny robot on a living patient's brain. But, Jessie's department chief is too busy to worry about such ethics. And neither of them has any idea that ARTIE will attract a patient from their worst nightmares.
    Claude Malloche is a master assassin, more rumor than man, for whom murder is an art. No one can identity his face. Now Malloche has a deadly brain tumor, and he intends to have the best neurosurgeon in the world operate on it.
    To ensure Jessie's cooperation, Malloche has devised a plan of intimidation that puts at risk her life and the lives of hundreds of innocent people. Neurosurgery requires nerves of steel, but in coming up with a scheme to fulfill her oath as a doctor while thwarting a diabolical killer, Jessie will be performing the most complex surgery of her career- on a knife-edge of terror.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 22, 2005
    ISBN9781415923337
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    The Patient
    Author

    Michael Palmer

    Michael Palmer (1942-2013) wrote internationally bestselling novels of medical suspense, including The First Patient, The Second Opinion, The Last Surgeon, A Heartbeat Away, Oath of Office and Political Suicide. His book Extreme Measures was adapted into a movie starring Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. Palmer earned his bachelor's degree at Wesleyan University, and he attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. He spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine. In addition to his writing, Palmer was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency. He lived in eastern Massachusetts.

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    • 5/5
      Palmer's books are my reading Halloween candy. I'm just a sucker for their plot goodness and easy reading. The patient is no exception. A veteran assassin has a brain tumor and chooses assassin methods to get rid of it.
    • 4/5
      I do enjoy a good medical thriller however I kind of thought this balanced on the edge of being a medical thriller and, well something else. Yes, it's set in the world of neurosurgery, the 'villian' does have a brain tumor that he needs to have removed and yet I felt that the medical side of things was merely a vehicle for the hostage situation and action sequences to be portrayed with. To me the story of the inflate ego of the chief surgeon who ends up killing a patient through incompetence and failure to acknowledge his limitations could have been a novel in its own right without the additional hoopla the criminal-with-a-tumor aspect brought to the book.Overall, the book was decent but I don't think it was on the same level as the better Robin Cook medical thrillers.
    • 3/5
      This medical thriller was an easy read. A terrorist with a brain tumor needs surgery; the surgeon performing the surgery must be successful or suffer the consequences.
    • 1/5
      I found it a bit predictable and slow.
    • 4/5
      As the parent of a child in remission from a brain tumor, I found this book fascinating and accurate. I probably would not have read this book during or immediately after diagnosis and treatment, but now that we are six years out, I can appreciate a story (sometimes farfetched) that explores a scary disease and cutting edge treatments.
    • 4/5
      Young brain surgeon Jessie Copeland has worked for years on a robot that will enable previously inoperable tumors to be removed. When her boss uses the robot to save a young Olympic gymnast, word spreads fast and they are quickly swamped with cases. Unfortunately, one of these cases happens to be a crime boss who is responsible for the murder of several people. And he will stop at nothing to get the surgery he needs. This medical thriller was fine. It kept my attention.
    • 4/5
      Michael Palmer is an M.D. that also happens to be a very good writter of suspense stories. And this is one of them. With the daily advances in medical research, the procedures in this book are not far off. But even more important. This book is a fun and fast read. you will be turning the pages to see what happens next. If you like suspense, read it.