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Summary: Round and round
Review: Definitely is a good book that will keep you reading and thinking if you really want to go to a doctor, for me it has two little mistakes but that doesn't mean that the book doesn't deserve five stars.
The first is that the book keeps a circle that doesn't goes out and you will know what will happen next (you will know who is the bad guy at the time that he comes to the book, why Abbey Dolan didn't know?)
The second is that you really doesn't know what will happen to some characters at the end of the book.
The book will never goes out of the story and you will learn one or two thinks of medicine.
If you tell me that this book was written by Dr. Robin Cook I will believe it, because the end is exactly as he writes, and the story of all kind of doctors that the only thing they want is money no matter what.
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Summary: Classic Michael Palmer
Review: Dr Abby Dolan moved to Patience, California, to work at the Regional Hospital because her fianc? Josh found work at Colstar International in the same town. Colstar is the largest producer of portable power sources and they specialise in producing several types of batteries. Truly enough, Patience owes its wealth to this large company. After about five weeks in Patience, Abby notices that Josh is becoming irritable, distracted, easily fatigued and more and more frequently suffers from violent headaches which make him reach for the bottle, something he never used to do before. Furthermore, several patients treated by Abby seem to suffer from the same symptoms as Josh. After having had their blood analysed by an independent laboratory, it appears that these patients were all contaminated by cadmium. Colstar refuses to locate the source of the contamination because it would cost them too much to close the plant for any length of time. When Abby's investigations become too pressing, the director of Patience Regional Hospital, Joe Henderson, asks her to resign, menacing her with the falsified report on the death of one of her patients, Peggy Wheaton. But it is only when one night, returning home from work, Abby is shot at several times that she understands that the threat from Colstar is not to be taken lightly...
A very good medical thriller.
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Summary: Dr.Superwoman
Review: Dr.Abby Dolan has moved from being a hotshot Emergency Room specialist in a major city hospital to being head of the Emergency Room team at a hospital in a small Californian town, to be with her boyfriend, Josh.
When many locals succumb to the same mysterious symptons, Abby begins to explore the possibility of the illnesses being work related and linked to the towns' major industry, a huge chemical plant which makes batteries. As the towns' economy depends on this factory, Abby's enquiries meet with downright resentment.Josh and a few other townspeople become dangerously violent and are showing signs of seizures which cause blinding headaches and even more violent behaviour.It all becomes rather exciting when Abby, with the help of the town renegade, visits the factory illicitly, making her way through secret underground passages and finding secret labotatories where scientists are working on antidotes for induced diseases, all in the name of research and supposedly with government approval.Abby manages to escape, up and down cliffs, over impossible terrains and fending off bullets, proving herelf to be the equal of any Wonderwoman(with a stray bullet in her leg AND being almost torn to pieces by falls from the cliff face) It's all a pretty good yarn but it's served as another reminder to me to stay away from hospitals at all cost!
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Summary: Disappointing thriller
Review: Having previously read and enjoyed Michael Palmer's CRITICAL
JUDGMENT, I looked forward to hearing the taped version of
SILENT TREATMENT . . . the premise sounded great, too . . . an
investigative journalist dies the night before she is scheduled for
routine surgery . . . it is later discovered that she had been close to
exposing a murderous cost-cutting conspiracy among medical
insurance companies, wherein someone is paying to have the
costliest patients murdered . . . but after a great beginning, the
storyline became bogged down with too many subplots . . . there
were also numerous uninteresting characters that had no appeal
to me . . . by the end, I didn't really care what happened.
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Summary: Non-Stop Suspense
Review: I wanted a change from Robin Cook and I'm quite happy I found Michael Palmer. The book was a bit slow to start and I was tempted to stop reading it, but I kept on.
This book is fantastic. The characters are well written as is the plot. There were many times while reading this book that I felt troubled and anxious just because of what Abby was going through. This book really had a hold on me. Although it was the first Michael Palmer book I've read, I'll definately be reading more of his.
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Summary: Intense medical thriller.
Review: I wanted a change from Robin Cook and I'm quite happy I found Michael Palmer. The book was a bit slow to start and I was tempted to stop reading it, but I kept on.
This book is fantastic. The characters are well written as is the plot. There were many times while reading this book that I felt troubled and anxious just because of what Abby was going through. This book really had a hold on me. Although it was the first Michael Palmer book I've read, I'll definately be reading more of his.
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Summary: critical judgement -an edge of your seat thriller!
Review: Michael Palmer has succeeded in creating yet another unique and suprisingly unpredictable novel.In this book Critical Judgement,emergancy physician,Abbey Dolan finds herself entrapped in one small towns web of murder and sinister plotting-only to discover an unimaginable truth!From beginning to end this book keeps its reader absorbed in the mysterious events unfolding page by page.Michael Palmer's work seems somewhat compareable to author Robin Cook,showing us that although the medical field is a proffesion aimed at helping people,calamity and dissaster can also take place.And as you finish that last page you close the book feeling as though you've just experianced every event as though it just happened in your own life!A superb adventure has yet to unfold!
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Summary: better than Robin Cook ?
Review: the obvious anti-gun bias in the first few pages almost made me put it down. The author has a demented man walking into a gun store and coming out with 2 semi-automatic rifles. California has a 14 day waiting period for any gun purchase. No gun shop I know would sell to a disturbed person like Josh, they want to keep their license. The author also refers to these rifles as "machine guns". Palmer must have gone to the Diane Feinstein school of armory and misinformation. If he doesn't research guns very well, I am suspect of his other technical statements. The "old man in the woods" who happens to be a Zen archery master is hilarious. Was Dr. Dolan supposed to be Grasshopper? It is scary to think innocent people could be guinea pigs for government sponsored drug tests. Unfortunately that has happened several times we are aware of, soldiers exposed to radiation in Nevada and syphilis patients in Alabama. The central story of this novel could be true. Cook wrote about ergot poisoning that caused uncontrolled violence. Clive Cussler wrote about water supplies being poisoned by chemical waste and that caused extreme violence as well. Palmer is a better writer than Cook but Cussler is more entertaining than either. Cussler also introduces topics for personal research. I'll stick with Cussler.
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Summary: Excellent story with lots of surprises
Review: The whole idea of chemical poisoning and a corporate cover-up is intriguing enough, but Palmer makes it even more exciting by adding twists and turns at all the right times. Every time I thought I figured out what was going on, I was pleasantly surprised to realize I was way off base. Abby's commitment to solving the mystery is fierce. The action is tremendous and it doesn't stop until the last page, as the story races to a thrilling conclusion. This book was difficult to put down. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a chilling mystery novel.
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