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Chargement... Critical Judgment (1996)par Michael Palmer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Borrowed ( ) Dr. Abby Dolan has followed her boyfriend Josh to a small California community, Patience, where he has been hired at a major facility and she finds work in the emergency room of the local, extremely well-appointed, hospital. But Josh is acting strangely now, some of Abby’s patients are exhibiting puzzling symptoms, and a few individuals seem to be experiencing psychotic rages so extreme that people are getting killed. Abby begins searching for the truth, with the help of handsome colleague Dr. Lew Alvarez, but there are many in the town who don’t want them to discover what is really going on and who are willing to do anything to prevent them from learning about it…. This is a typical medical thriller, a genre I don’t read very much but which I find can be quite perfect as a lazy summer read. The author was himself a physician and the medical aspects, particularly the type of training needed to make a good emergency room specialist, are quite interesting; the thriller aspect of the book is indeed fast-paced and cinematic. Having been published in 1996, some particular elements seem quaint (his treatment of MRI machines, for example, but then I’m reading the book 25 years later, when such machines are far more common and well-understood), and despite having lived there for almost two decades I still can’t for the life of me place a downtown high-rise in San Francisco from which one could see both Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, but these are minor quibbles. Mostly, a fairly mindless and entertaining way to spend time in the summer - on a beach, perhaps, or in a sultry backyard. Mildly recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: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 of the truth may beâ??and how far someone will go to keep a lethal secret. But she may not find the answer until it's too late to save her patients, her career...her li Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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