Miracle Cure

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Summary: Great medical suspense!
Review: After I read 'Side Effects' I was beginning to think that Michael Palmer had lost his touch. Then I read Miracle Cure and my opinion changed right away. This book was interesting right from the beginning. This book was rich with character detail and storyline and medical suspense. A must for any Michael Palmer fan.

Rating:
Summary: Great medical suspense!
Review: After I read 'Side Effects' I was beginning to think that Michael Palmer had lost his touch. Then I read Miracle Cure and my opinion changed right away. This book was interesting right from the beginning. This book was rich with character detail and storyline and medical suspense. A must for any Michael Palmer fan.

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Summary: Do you need a new medicine?
Review: As all these kind of books you will think twice before you go to a MD, despite everybody thinks that a doctor must have some human thoughts the reality is very different and many of them just don't care about healing or harming someone.
The book's story will keep you reading but the surgeries are a little bit boring and the end of the book is very predictable but that doesn't mean that is a bad end.

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Summary: The usual- a great read
Review: Be prepared to kiss the weekend good-bye when you tackle a Palmer book. This one is no exception, however I must say that the formula is getting a bit long in the tooth. We all know the hmo-drug corporate establishment is bad, and that everyone associated with the main character is potentially bad. And as we read more and more of Dr. Palmers books we ultimately become less fulfilled upon the completion of each succeeding one! This one was no exception...the plot was somewhat predictable, the scenario somewhat claustrophobic, the cast of characters somewhat limited..he probably wrote this thing in one weekend too!! Oh, by the way, as with all his books..LOVED IT.

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Summary: Slow start- outstanding finish
Review: I don't know if it was the mood I was in when I started reading this book, but I had a hard time getting involved in the first 50 pages or so. I almost put the book down, but I'm glad I didn't. The book really picked up the pace & suspense after that. Things started really coming together in the last half of the book. Great story, it's my first by Palmer, and won't be my last. Only criticism- characters left a little to be desired.

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Summary: a good book, but a little predictable
Review: i don't know if the matter that i have read a lot of books of agatha christie has left a side effect on me and now i can see some things predictables in suspense books, or it's just that this IS one predictable book.

is an amusing reading but if you want to read a real master of medicine writing you have to read robin cook's ( just the ones related with medicine, the others are not that good ).

there's one thing for sure : is an easy reading book and there are just a few of characters, so you couldn't be lost in the plot.

anyway this was my first palmer's... now i bougth "the patient" and i hope it wouldn't be predictable too.

thanks for reading my review. from the Argentine lands, Bertran Saragusti.

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Summary: Great Intrigue !!
Review: Michael Palmer has written a great suspense novel weaving the interpersonal turmoil of the main character beautifully with a captivating suspense thriller that will have you guessing at every turn. In the great style of Catherine Coulter and Robert Ludlum, Michael Palmer has written a terrific novel that ranks with the best of them. This is one you won't be able to put down until the end !

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Summary: Excellant
Review: my opinion may be a bit biased seeing as how im a 17 year old male and... want all action. but i just thought that all of the technical medicine talk made this book a bit hard to follow, it was needed to set up the ending which does happen to be very good. so it was a good book by a good author, but i think i could have done better with the same general story, but less medical talk.

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Summary: A real thriller and educational too!
Review: Well, this is another of the fast paced medical thrillers that fans of Michael Palmer have come to expect and as usual, the good doctor delivers.

In this novel, author and medical doctor Michael Palmer delivers up a character with a set of problems that have combined to almost destroy a once promising medical career. Dr. Brian Holcomb is one of those doctors you don't hear too much about; he is an MD who has had his medical license revoked as a result of his addiction to prescription pain-killers and his illegal writing of prescriptions for himself to feed that addiction.

After we first meet the former Dr. Holcomb, newly divorced and working at a car rental counter, we discover a sympathetic character. Palmer has a talent for painting these pictures and despite the fact that every reader knows that Brian's situation is one of his own making, he is still someone we feel for. We also hope he gets his license back.

Eventually, Brian does get his license back. However, it is conditional and he is kept under strict observation. His medical skills have not degraded and he proves his worth to the hospital that has taken a chance on him. Soon, he is given the chance to work on a study for a drug that purports to unblock arteries blocked by plaque and the other deposits that lead to arteriosclerosis and fatal heart attacks. Initially, this windfall assignment leads Brian to think that he can get his father into the study. You see, Brian's dad has been severely handicapped by past heart attacks and Brian doesn't want to lose him. Brian schemes to get his father into the program but then, certain information is released by the author so that the reader and Dr. Holcomb find out that the medication may not be all it appears to be. The much ballyhooed potential may just be a scam.

Palmer leads the reader down the same path he has used in past novels. Brian finds himself in trouble with the hospital and the law, when he is accused of killing a friend, another doctor. Brian weaves in and out of near death experiences as he attempts to find answers for why he is being set up. The ride we go on with Brian is one that Palmer has become a master of. It is high speed - low drag and it leaves the reader panting and gasping for air.

I also believe that this book is something of a sermon for Dr. Palmer. After years of working in emergency medicine in Massachusetts, he has recently turned his attention to dealing with physicians who have substance abuse problems. This novel is as fine a warning as any doctor (and their potential patients) will see in novelized format. Dr. Palmer once again has delivered a fast-paced, gripping medical thriller. As far as I am concerned, he has this genre to himself. I look forward to his next effort.

If you like thrillers and medical mysteries, you won't go wrong reading MIRACLE CURE. I will agree with other reviewers here at Amazon who stated that there was an air of predictability to this novel. You know what? I don't care. I read these books as escapist entertainment. I don't expect Tolstoy and that's not what the author is writing. When you accept what these novels are, and keep that in mind, they become that much more enjoyable. Dr. Palmer has been practicing medicine for over 20 years and has been writing for a good part of that time. From my corner, he seems to be pretty competent at both fields of endeavor. Like many of his other readers, I anxiously await his latest installment. I hope he'll be writing these novels for a long time to come.

Paul Connors