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Summary: An Excellent Medical Thriller
Review: A good story, well told. Excellent characterizations and fast-paced action combine for an entertaining read. The premise was somewhat exaggerated but still believable. The only thing I found unbelievable in this story was that the senator from Massachusetts was a republican.
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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.
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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.
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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: Palmer does it again.
Review: As the novel opens, "There are three kinds of untruths: lies, damn lies, and statistics." (Benjamin Disraeli) Another well-done medical thriller by an author who is a master at it. Murder, suspense, twisting plot make for a fine read.
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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: Palmer always writes deliciously thought provoking books
Review: For centuries, mankind has sought a magical elixir to cure ailments. With few exceptions, these magic pills usually were worse than the disease. The latest, greatest medical dicosvery is Vasclear, a drug still in the test stage but shows much promise of reversing the ravages of arteriosclerosis. The FDA is under extreme pressure to loosen their standards so that desperate people can start to use this heralded drug. Dr. Brian Holbrook sees Vasclear as his own elixir. His once promising medical career has been in ruins ever since he was barred from practicing due to substance abuse. The Boston Heart Institute hires him. However, less than a week on the job Brian suspects there is dangerous side effects to the medicine that is being disregard by the test team. Since he wants his own ailing father to take the drug, Brian is caught in a dilemma because if he releases what he knows to the FDA, the drug will probably be banned. He must also deal with the Chechen Mafia who wants Brian to keep his mouth shut and are willing to back up their threat to insure his compliace MIRACLE CURE is an interesting medical thriller that easily could have come from today's headlines where pressure is on the FDA to, on the one hand not allow any thalidomide type drug onto the market, while on the other hand expedite their approval process. Brian is an intriguing hero because of all the baggage he carries. However, the secondary players are not well developed, especially the villains who seem more like poor imitations of Snidely. Still, Michael Palmer's easy to read style and an overall thrilling story line make this novel worth reading for fans of the sub-genre. Harriet Klausner
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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: Same ol', same ol'
Review: I have enjoyed all of Michael Palmer's books to date, but somehow this one just left me feeling like 'been there, done that'. IMHO this particular volume was put together like a Chinese menu: take this plot and this character and that bad guy and weave them all together into a story. Don't get me wrong, I did want to know how it all came out, but yet at the same time I DID know how it would all come out and who the bad guys were going to turn out to be. The only thing that caught me off guard was the method of the hoax. So while I was more or less enjoying reading the book, a part of me was saying "You've read this before, why aren't you reading something different, something you HAVEN'T seen before?"
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