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...