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Summary: Yuck!
Review: I found this book to be extremely long. You read a climatic point at the beginning of the book, which allows you conclude certain things, but are forced to listen to Dr. Garnet try to figure out stuff for 304 pages! It was interesting from then on and I quite enjoyed the ending. So if you would like to read this story, DO NOT READ THE PROLOGUE! I guessed a lot of stuff from it and I am 18 year old lifeguard!!
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Summary: Exciting Page Turner
Review: I really enjoyed this book and am glad that there are no HMO's in Quebec. As exciting as the previous ones, couldn't put it down. Dr. Garnett is like a hound following a scent, he never lets up. I anxiously await the next round with Dr. Garnett et al.
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Summary: Exciting Page Turner
Review: I really enjoyed this book and am glad that there are no HMO's in Quebec. As exciting as the previous ones, couldn't put it down. Dr. Garnett is like a hound following a scent, he never lets up. I anxiously await the next round with Dr. Garnett et al.
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Summary: An Excellent Medical Suspence
Review: It was authentic, thrilling, with excellent characters, plot and suspence.Peter and Veronique
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Summary: The Procedure
Review: Outstanding. High suspense. Very engaging from the first page to the end. Accurate descriptions that really put you in the shoes of the characters. Evokes emotions that draw out outspoken responses throughout the book. Wanted to read the book at red lights in traffic.
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Summary: The Procedure
Review: Outstanding. High suspense. Very engaging from the first page to the end. Accurate descriptions that really put you in the shoes of the characters. Evokes emotions that draw out outspoken responses throughout the book. Wanted to read the book at red lights in traffic.
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Summary: Murder and Malfeasance Make for Deadly Medicine
Review: Peter Clement's charismatic hero, Dr. Earl Garnet, outspoken chief of ER services at St. Paul's Hospital in Buffalo, has always been something of a maverick. Deeply caring and utterly involved in his profession, he puts his patients before what's politic and his professional ethics before personal advancement. His infinite capacity for outrage in both areas is tested to the hilt when a baby arrives too late and dies in his ER because the mother's HMO had withheld not timely treatment, but their guarantee to pay for it. He subsequently publicly charges powerful Brama Health Care with "No fault murder" and opens a can of worms that rocks the hospital's hierarchy to its core. Dr. Clement's own years of experience and technical expertise in ER medicine coupled with his brilliant flair for suspenseful plotting and and non-stop action make this latest addition to an already best-selling medical series almost impossible to put down. As has been the case with his two previous thrillers, he keeps several plot-lines running in tandem. Shortly after the baby's death, a doctor who might have been associated with Brama is found brutally murdered in the hospital parking lot, and another doctor, an alcoholic friend and former colleague of Garnet's, disappears after enrolling in a secret, experimental drug rehab program which also appears to be linked to the HMO. As the financial stakes increase and pressures to cover-up and deny mount, Garnet finds himself increasingly alone in his attempts to establish a connection between these apparently disparate events that will provide tangible proof of murder, malfeasance and corruption in both the HMO and the medical establishment, bring the real culprits to justice and create the desperately needed mandate for managed care reform which he sees as a personal imperative. In order to do this, he ultimately puts his own life on the line with utterly spine-tingling results. I believe that Dr. Clement is a 'muck-raker' in the original and most honorable sense of the term. He wields his creative talent like a scapel with devastating power and accuracy to expose the multiplicity of flaws and shortcomings inherent to our present system of medical care, and it is impossible to come away from his fictional world without having some terrible concerns about the real one which we all have to deal with sooner or later ourselves.
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Summary: Achilling medical thriller
Review: The HMO informs the mother that eighteen-month-old Robert Delany had a cold and did not need ER treatment. When she called back they said use your judgment, but we will not pay for treatment unless a true emergency exists. Still worried, the mother rushes her son to the nearby Buffalo hospital, but it proves too late as the infant dies. The head of ER, Dr. Earl Garret blames the HMO Brama for the death of the child although the managed health provider worked within the law. Brama Health Care refuses to send patients to the hospital unless Earl is fired. As Earl receives the pariah treatment from peers who seen their wages drop ten percent, someone murders Dr. Sawold in the doctor parking lot. The medical community blames the homicide on Earl stirring up trouble with the unfortunate Delany case. Rather than sit idly by waiting for the police to solve the case, Earl begins making his own inquiries. THE PROCEDURE is more than just a taut medical thriller. Peter Clement makes clear his position on the current state of health care in the United States, condemning it as an outrage. The hero is a caring person who is punished for wanting to provide the best medical treatment for his patients regardless of the HMO bottom line mentality. Though one-sided, Dr. Clement still provides an exciting amateur sleuth medical thriller that will keep reader attention until the final page. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: No Mystery Here
Review: This is the latest and, one hopes, the last, of the "medical mysteries" featuring the handsome and brilliant Dr. Earl Garnet and his beautiful and brilliant wife, fellow physician, Janet. Only here, the real hero(ine) is Janet. She plays a supporting role in all these novels and supplies the common sense. If only Garnet would try some. This is nothing more than a dull police procedural wrapped in surgical greens. Garnet is painted as a highly talented ER chief and is a quite believeable and effective character in that role. But when there is murder and mayhem afoot, he goes into his orbit, trying to solve the case. In doing so, he keeps evidence and relevant facts to himself, lying to the police, and going off on his silly tangents. The characters are lame, especially Buffalo P. D. Det. Riley who knows he's being lied to but seems to go along for the ride. And the legal advice! Puhleeeze! What is really sad is that this lame story is wrapped around a central theme: hatred of HMOs. I'm sure that most readers have doubts about HMOs, or worse, a personal story about how an HMO has denied a needed medical service. The diatribe goes over the top - worse than Clement's others - and his argument is lost in all the histrionics. Clement really has Garnet chewing the scenery in this one. A book billed as a medical mystery should be just that: strange viruses running amok with the hero using her skill to find the villanous pathogens and scaring the daylights out of us while doing so. A little science, please!
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Summary: No Mystery Here
Review: This is the latest and, one hopes, the last, of the "medical mysteries" featuring the handsome and brilliant Dr. Earl Garnet and his beautiful and brilliant wife, fellow physician, Janet. Only here, the real hero(ine) is Janet. She plays a supporting role in all these novels and supplies the common sense. If only Garnet would try some. This is nothing more than a dull police procedural wrapped in surgical greens. Garnet is painted as a highly talented ER chief and is a quite believeable and effective character in that role. But when there is murder and mayhem afoot, he goes into his orbit, trying to solve the case. In doing so, he keeps evidence and relevant facts to himself, lying to the police, and going off on his silly tangents. The characters are lame, especially Buffalo P. D. Det. Riley who knows he's being lied to but seems to go along for the ride. And the legal advice! Puhleeeze! What is really sad is that this lame story is wrapped around a central theme: hatred of HMOs. I'm sure that most readers have doubts about HMOs, or worse, a personal story about how an HMO has denied a needed medical service. The diatribe goes over the top - worse than Clement's others - and his argument is lost in all the histrionics. Clement really has Garnet chewing the scenery in this one. A book billed as a medical mystery should be just that: strange viruses running amok with the hero using her skill to find the villanous pathogens and scaring the daylights out of us while doing so. A little science, please!
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