Critical Judgement

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Summary: Well crafted medical thriller
Review: After suffering through the deteriorating quality of Robin Cook's recent books, I was pleased to discover a doctor who can actually write. Michael Palmer's Critical Judgment is a page-turner. The characters are either too good or too sleazy to be true, but the plor hums along and holds your attention. Even though the ending offers up a familiar boogyman, this is a good read for long trips or subway commuting.

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Summary: compelling, fast-paced, hard to put down medical mystery
Review: After working for years in neurology nursing, I was surpised to learn quite a bit more about MRI's! This is a very good fast-paced medical mystery which was very hard to put down. It is what I call a "clean book" with little profanity and little gratuitous sex which makes for more enjoyable reading. Because the author is an MD the details in the book are authenic which I appreciate. MD's write the best medical mysteries. Highly recommend.

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Summary: Most informative and exciting.
Review: certainly learned a great deal about the medical profession

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Summary: Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer
Review: Critical Judgemnt is one of the most exciting books I have ever read. This book keeps your heart racing and your wheels spinning the whole way through. Since reading this book, I have sought out other Michael Palmer works, and am equally pleased with them

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Summary: A very intense book, hard to put down.
Review: Critical Judgment was a good book and I like it 'cause it has for onca by a male author a woman as the main caracter. This is one of my favriote books on the shelves in my house. It is so scary I couldn't put it down for hours. I think it is awsome opposom.

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Summary: Round and round
Review: Definitely is a good book that will keep you reading and thinking if you really want to go to a doctor, for me it has two little mistakes but that doesn't mean that the book doesn't deserve five stars.
The first is that the book keeps a circle that doesn't goes out and you will know what will happen next (you will know who is the bad guy at the time that he comes to the book, why Abbey Dolan didn't know?)
The second is that you really doesn't know what will happen to some characters at the end of the book.
The book will never goes out of the story and you will learn one or two thinks of medicine.
If you tell me that this book was written by Dr. Robin Cook I will believe it, because the end is exactly as he writes, and the story of all kind of doctors that the only thing they want is money no matter what.

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Summary: Classic Michael Palmer
Review: Dr Abby Dolan moved to Patience, California, to work at the Regional Hospital because her fianc? Josh found work at Colstar International in the same town. Colstar is the largest producer of portable power sources and they specialise in producing several types of batteries. Truly enough, Patience owes its wealth to this large company. After about five weeks in Patience, Abby notices that Josh is becoming irritable, distracted, easily fatigued and more and more frequently suffers from violent headaches which make him reach for the bottle, something he never used to do before. Furthermore, several patients treated by Abby seem to suffer from the same symptoms as Josh. After having had their blood analysed by an independent laboratory, it appears that these patients were all contaminated by cadmium. Colstar refuses to locate the source of the contamination because it would cost them too much to close the plant for any length of time. When Abby's investigations become too pressing, the director of Patience Regional Hospital, Joe Henderson, asks her to resign, menacing her with the falsified report on the death of one of her patients, Peggy Wheaton. But it is only when one night, returning home from work, Abby is shot at several times that she understands that the threat from Colstar is not to be taken lightly...
A very good medical thriller.

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Summary: Dr.Superwoman
Review: Dr.Abby Dolan has moved from being a hotshot Emergency Room specialist in a major city hospital to being head of the Emergency Room team at a hospital in a small Californian town, to be with her boyfriend, Josh.
When many locals succumb to the same mysterious symptons, Abby begins to explore the possibility of the illnesses being work related and linked to the towns' major industry, a huge chemical plant which makes batteries. As the towns' economy depends on this factory, Abby's enquiries meet with downright resentment.Josh and a few other townspeople become dangerously violent and are showing signs of seizures which cause blinding headaches and even more violent behaviour.It all becomes rather exciting when Abby, with the help of the town renegade, visits the factory illicitly, making her way through secret underground passages and finding secret labotatories where scientists are working on antidotes for induced diseases, all in the name of research and supposedly with government approval.Abby manages to escape, up and down cliffs, over impossible terrains and fending off bullets, proving herelf to be the equal of any Wonderwoman(with a stray bullet in her leg AND being almost torn to pieces by falls from the cliff face) It's all a pretty good yarn but it's served as another reminder to me to stay away from hospitals at all cost!

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Summary: Great Book but it has a technical error
Review: Enjoyed mixing the medical with the environmental issues. However there was a technical error which spoiled the effect. Scuba divers CANNOT breath oxygen because at depth it becomes toxic as your system becomes supersaturated. This confuses the reading for carbon dioxide which triggers breathing. He makes the same mistake in the preview of "Miracle Cure"

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Summary: Non-Stop Suspense
Review: Fantastic writing!!! I literally couldn't put it down. I love how Palmer's lead character was portrayed as a strong, intelligent woman, but still a little naive. It really brought her to life. Please keep them coming!!