Michael Palmer
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English
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His name is ARTIE, a miracle of bio-engineering that is about to transform the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Jessie Copeland knows him better than anyone else at Eastern Mass Medical Center- and knows it's too soon to be using the tiny robot on a living patient's brain. But, Jessie's department chief is too busy to worry about such ethics. And neither of them has any idea that ARTIE will attract a patient from their worst nightmares.
Claude Malloche...
Claude Malloche...
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English
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In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world—a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill....
With his wife, Evie, scheduled...
With his wife, Evie, scheduled...
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English
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From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients. It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages. As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby's superiors make it clear her probing is unwelcome.
Soon Abby will learn just how high the cost...
Soon Abby will learn just how high the cost...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal
Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed...
Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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“Has everything—a terrifying plot . . . breakneck pace . . . vividly drawn characters.”—John Saul
Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate's closest friend.
Soon it will threaten Kate's marriage.
Her sanity.
Her life.
Kate has uncovered a horrifying...
Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate's closest friend.
Soon it will threaten Kate's marriage.
Her sanity.
Her life.
Kate has uncovered a horrifying...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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“A suspenseful page-turner . . . jolts and entertains the reader.”—Mary Higgins Clark
Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicable, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his career—his very life—to unmask the terrifying mystery. A beautiful and dedicated...
Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicable, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his career—his very life—to unmask the terrifying mystery. A beautiful and dedicated...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision—a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.
At the headquarters of Boston’s Eastern...
At the headquarters of Boston’s Eastern...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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The President's teenaged son is threatened by a potentially fatal illness that is rooted in dark secrets from a long-buried past.
President Geoffrey Hilliard and his family live in the ever-present glare of the political limelight, with relentless scrutiny of their daily lives. The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the President's son Cam, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he's gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he's awake. Now someone must expose the unspeakable truth about this hospital. Or else an innocent child will die. And he won't...
11) Miracle cure
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English
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The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well.... After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he's been chosen to join the medical team testing a new miracle drug. The initial results are so promising that Brian pushes to get his father--who suffers from a dangerous heart condition--accepted...
12) Resistant
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Attending a national conference in Atlanta with Welcome, Duncan injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating him alive from the inside out. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic-- and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. A shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors has infiltrated our...
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English
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Dr. Lou Welcome has been supervising Dr. Gary McHugh, formerly a black-out drinker, through his work with the Physician Wellness Office. McHugh has been found unconscious in his wrecked car after visiting a patient of his, Congressman Elias Colston, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Soon after McHugh awakens in the hospital, Colston's wife returns home to find her husband shot dead. She then admits that she had just broken off a long-standing...
14) A heartbeat away
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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On the night of the State of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building. A terrorist group calling itself "Genesis" has unleashed WRX3883, a deadly, highly contagious virus, into the building. No one fully knows the deadly effect of the germ except for the team responsible for its developmenta...
15) Oath of office
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2012.
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English
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When Dr. John Merriman goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. When Lou begins to look into it, the terrifying evidence he finds takes him down a path to an unspeakable conspiracy that seems to lead directly to the White House and those in the highest positions of power.
16) Extreme measures
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English
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A promising young doctor is threatened by his hospital's elite clique after discovering the group's criminal acts in Palmer's latest medical thriller.
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Bauhan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"These essays weave together a timeline of salt flats grit and labor ... to explore deeper questions of how to be of a place, and how to quit it. A meditation on lost faith, lost friends, and the longing for familiar landscapes and rituals that bind us to ourselves and one another, this collection is a love song to the AMerican West, and a farewell."--back cover.
18) The fifth vial
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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A suspended Harvard Medical School student is kidnapped and left for dead in Rio de Janeiro, while a terminally ill medical genius works on a potentially world-changing cure, and a Chicago detective struggles to identify a mysterious accident victim.
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Reunited with his former Annapolis roommate, Andrew Stoddard--now president of the United States--when he is asked to become his personal physician, Gabe Singleton discovers that Andrew is going insane and that the condition may not be the result of natural causes.
20) Trauma: a novel
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Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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After two neurosurgeries go horribly wrong, Dr. Carrie Bryant quits her residency and moves back home where her younger brother, Adam, a combat vet suffering from debilitating PTSD, also lives. Then she learns about an experimental program at the VA exploring the use of Deep Brain Stimulation to cure the trauma of PTSD. It seems like a way back into medicine. And Carrie's first surgery appears to be a success -- united her patient mysteriously vanishes....