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Summary: Cook Must Be Kidding
Review: This book deals with the exciting lives of two doctors and their ill daughter, who move to a new community only to find a dead body in their new house and a town full of secrets. This was a extremely interesting book, with intricate details and an exciting plot. The only drawback to the book was the length. Although the book remained exciting throughout the book, the end could have been tightened to remove unneccesary and sometimes boring information. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the medical field, or anyone who enjoys a good murder mystery!
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Summary: The Cure
Review: This book deals with the exciting lives of two doctors and their ill daughter, who move to a new community only to find a dead body in their new house and a town full of secrets. This was a extremely interesting book, with intricate details and an exciting plot. The only drawback to the book was the length. Although the book remained exciting throughout the book, the end could have been tightened to remove unneccesary and sometimes boring information. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the medical field, or anyone who enjoys a good murder mystery!
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Summary: A wonderful mystery and suspense book
Review: This book is an awesome book. A story about two doctors, who move to Bartlett, Vermont to practice health care. Things go wrong from day one. I don't want to spoil things for you, but if you love mystery and suspense, with a tinge of medical tecno jumbo, you'll love this book.
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Summary: Good book, focusing too much on HMO issues.
Review: This book was basically well written, and was very pratical. The downfall of FATAL CURE was it's emphasis being placed on HMOs and the destruction it causes within medicine. This book lead you into many interesting twists and turns and was mainly suspensful. FATAL CURE was not one of his best books, but if you don't have anything else then pick it up.
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Summary: One of Cooks Best
Review: This book was excellently written and I extremely liked it.There was just one part that cold have been better.
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Summary: Cook Must Be Kidding
Review: This is an unbelievably bad book. The story, including the identity of the villain, is obvious within the first chapters. The characters, dialogue and situations are so unbelivable as to be ridiculous. If the protagonists in this story graduated from medical school, I might consider sending my hamster, because they seem to have about an equal intelligence level. David and Angela should have figured this whole mess out even before I did, but they were too busy listening to their daughter's improbable dialogue, answering her with trite, cutesy nonsense, and putting her into situations that should have made them lose their parenting privileges. Cook should leave polemics about HMOs to the analysts and concentrate on basic writing techniques - plot, character development and dialogue.
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Summary: Great polemic, but he doesn't know Vermont
Review: This is not my favorite Robin Cook novel. Being a native Vermonter I kept being distracted by the fact that the book talked about a Vermont town that simply doesn't exist. It isn't just that it's a fictional town, it's that the setting is totally unreal. It appears to have been written by someone who's seen some Vermont postcards, but never spent any time in the state. There simply aren't places in Vermont where nearby hospitals have been put out of business by HMO's and other hospitals, other than Burlington where the facilities have essentially consolidated. There is no way that Burlington could be mistaken for Cook's setting.The Vermonters in the story don't act like real Vermonters, the yuppie professionals in the story are unrealistic as well.Having said that there are some factual pieces about hospitals forcing doctors out of private practices into hospital controlled practices. The unreality in this story really detracted from the story line as a whole. Also I was perplexed as to why the couple would allow their daughter to be hospitalized in a hospital where patients were dying mysteriously. It isn't like there are no other hospitals in the state. People routinely travel for an hour plus in Vermont to get better medical care than is available locally. All in all the book's polemics were interesting, but the lack of knowledge of the setting and poor character development made it not one of Cook's best. Before he writes about Vermont again he ought to come and live here for 6 months or so.
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Summary: Great polemic, but he doesn't know Vermont
Review: This is not my favorite Robin Cook novel. Being a native Vermonter I kept being distracted by the fact that the book talked about a Vermont town that simply doesn't exist. It isn't just that it's a fictional town, it's that the setting is totally unreal. It appears to have been written by someone who's seen some Vermont postcards, but never spent any time in the state. There simply aren't places in Vermont where nearby hospitals have been put out of business by HMO's and other hospitals, other than Burlington where the facilities have essentially consolidated. There is no way that Burlington could be mistaken for Cook's setting.The Vermonters in the story don't act like real Vermonters, the yuppie professionals in the story are unrealistic as well. Having said that there are some factual pieces about hospitals forcing doctors out of private practices into hospital controlled practices. The unreality in this story really detracted from the story line as a whole. Also I was perplexed as to why the couple would allow their daughter to be hospitalized in a hospital where patients were dying mysteriously. It isn't like there are no other hospitals in the state. People routinely travel for an hour plus in Vermont to get better medical care than is available locally. All in all the book's polemics were interesting, but the lack of knowledge of the setting and poor character development made it not one of Cook's best. Before he writes about Vermont again he ought to come and live here for 6 months or so.
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Summary: This is Robin Cook
Review: This is the kind of books that I like of Dr. Cook, of course I am not a doctor so I don't understand many things about medicine, but this book is definitely a medical thrillers, and as all of his books you will think twice before you go to a doctor or a hospital.
The story of the hospital that want to save money instead of save patients is not out of reality, in other words I can believe that these things could happened in a small town or a place that are not to many hospitals.
It has one or two mistakes with their daughter, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't be real.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: This was the first book by Robin Cook I ever read. I have Cystic Fibrosis, so I was immediately drawn to that as part of the subject, and decided to give this "new" (to me) author a chance! I have enjoyed reading Robin Cook ever since, and I am now on Sphinx... which unfortunately is the last one unread for me! Hurry up and write more, Dr. Cook! :-)
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