Fatal Cure

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Summary: Cotton Candy Fiction
Review: "Fatal Cure" is a quick read. There's no depth of character to slow the reader; but the plot weaves as pages turn. Dr. Angela Wilson is a pathologist who does not like her boss touching her on the derriere or pulling her onto his lap for a peek at the microscope, a scientific lap dance. When she complains about sexual harassment, her boss suddenly gets upset with her. Then when a dead body of the former hospital administrator is found in her basement requiring continual absences from work, she gets fired! Where is CSI Vermont!?! ... This book was fun because something was always happening. It was also frustrating because the characters lacked perception. This is a fast read that's fiction's nutritional equivalent to cotton candy. A definite maybe!

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Summary: Cotton Candy Fiction
Review: "Fatal Cure" is a quick read. There's no depth of character to slow the reader; but the plot weaves as pages turn. Dr. Angela Wilson is a pathologist who does not like her boss touching her on the derriere or pulling her onto his lap for a peek at the microscope, a scientific lap dance. When she complains about sexual harassment, her boss suddenly gets upset with her. Then when a dead body of the former hospital administrator is found in her basement requiring continual absences from work, she gets fired! Where is CSI Vermont!?! ... This book was fun because something was always happening. It was also frustrating because the characters lacked perception. This is a fast read that's fiction's nutritional equivalent to cotton candy. A definite maybe!

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Summary: It has bestseller written all over it
Review: A book full of thrills.If you like medical thrillers this is a great one

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Summary: A thinly disguised rant about managed competition.
Review: A thinly disguised rant about managed competition, seen of course from the Doctor's point of view. The two protagonists are unbelievably stupid, but then they would have to be for such a week plot to survive the full length of the book. This is the first Robin Cook book I have read and is likely to be my last.

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Summary: Hauntingly possible
Review: As a healthcare professional for nearly 28 years, I find Cook's portrayal of the modern day HMO very scary, yet real. I have seen what 'cost containment' can do in real life and this scenario is not beyond the realm of possibility. Cook keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the book. I could not put it down

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Summary: Chilling insight of healthcare, reminds me of "1984".
Review: As a healthcare professional, Robin Cook's books are chillingly realistic. Throughout the book I kept telling myself,"this could never happen". As we recall how bizarre and unrealistic George Orwell's "1984" seemed initially and now realize we are living very similar with little more than a nod of oddity.

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Summary: absorbing thriller
Review: Dr David Wilson and his wife Angela Wilson(also a doctor) seek employment at Bartlet Community Hospital,Bartlet desiring to live a quiet and peaceful life in the countryside away from the hustle and bustle of Boston only to find out later that Bartlet is not the mini-heaven they had made it out to be.For Bartlet Community Hospital is a place where people are actually killed by radiation ! This time Cook has truely constructed a horrifying piece of fiction which seems easily possible in reality,considering the technological progress made by this world.Gawd !! I would be real scared to be hospitalized after reading this book.

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Summary: Excellent-could not put it down!!
Review: I cannot get enough of this author. I am a registered nurse, and I see the effects of managed care regulary - this book takes it to the ultimate fictional extreme, but the thought of it possibly becoming reality is chilling!!

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Summary: Interesting booktape describing the ills of managed care
Review: I enjoyed it greatly. It was a great tapebook, which had a manageable number of characters to keep up with, and a nice weave of stories linking them to the storyline. The conclusion as to the "fatal cure" was something I had long figured out before the somewhat dim-witted physician family around which the story swirled. I agree that the child proved to be the bright light in a gloomy town. I'm dropping my HMO as quickly as I can!

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Summary: Not the real world
Review: I enjoyed reading the book because it did have a good idea behind it. What bothered me, though, was how unrealistic the main characters' responses were to what happened to them. What got me the most was when the two characters that the family and the little girl were supposedly so close to died, they didn't even contact their families or attend their funerals! PLEASE! At least mention it in the book for 5 seconds so that we know that you have at least a slight grasp of what would really happen! No wonder everyone in Barlet hated them!!