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The Patient
by
Michael Palmer (Goodreads Author)
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 tha...more
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages
Published
January 12th 2011
by Bantam
(first published January 1st 2000)
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Summary: Someone is killing off the world's most gifted neurosurgeons, and Alex Bishop, a renegade CIA agent, thinks he knows who it is. Bishop is out to settle his score with Claude Malloche, an international assassin responsible for the death of Bishop's brother. When he learns that Malloche is afflicted with an inoperable brain tumor, Bishop understands why the murdered neurosurgeons died, and where Malloche will strike next.
Meanwhile, Jessie Copeland, an MIT-trained mechanical en...more
Meanwhile, Jessie Copeland, an MIT-trained mechanical en...more
Another fine, suspenseful Palmer / innovative surgical plot...
We have enjoyed all of Palmer's previous medical thrillers, and quickly got hooked on this recent one featuring micro-robotic neurosurgery as a not too impossible current/future development in medicine. After a noted nuerosurgeon gets bumped off in the prologue, we are introduced to Boston doctors Jessie Copeland and her boss, Carl Gilbride, who are perfecting a tiny robot that has been engineered to perform brain surg...more
We have enjoyed all of Palmer's previous medical thrillers, and quickly got hooked on this recent one featuring micro-robotic neurosurgery as a not too impossible current/future development in medicine. After a noted nuerosurgeon gets bumped off in the prologue, we are introduced to Boston doctors Jessie Copeland and her boss, Carl Gilbride, who are perfecting a tiny robot that has been engineered to perform brain surg...more
I am a sucker for medical thrillers, and this satisfied my expectations in that it had elements I liked - a busy hospital, sick patients and doctors always in a game of chess with King Death. Very busy, committed group of doctors, their leisure free lives...
The theme revolves around a busy neurosurgery department which is also doing research in using robotic neurosurgery and is so advanced that they have started trying their robot, Artie on patients. As a side-track we have a killer who is...more
The theme revolves around a busy neurosurgery department which is also doing research in using robotic neurosurgery and is so advanced that they have started trying their robot, Artie on patients. As a side-track we have a killer who is...more
Michael Palmer is an MD who is considered one of the top writers of the medical thriller genre. "The Patient" has all the ingredients to be a great book, but somehow never makes it for me. It is the story of a neurosurgeon at a large Massachusetts hospital who is involved in working with a new robotic surgical technique for taking out tumors. She and her whole surgical team, as well as the whole neurosurgical wing of the hospital with its patients are taken hostage by an internationa...more
Fanastic story about a ruthless serial killer who ends up with a brain tumor that he moves heaven and earth to have removed. He kills many people and would have killed many more if not for the brave doctor and a CIA agent who work together to bring him to justice.
I listened to the book on CD and there is an author interview at the end that is really good. The author is a practicing doctor and everything he writes about in the book is now being done except the robotic cutting tool. But he sa...more
I listened to the book on CD and there is an author interview at the end that is really good. The author is a practicing doctor and everything he writes about in the book is now being done except the robotic cutting tool. But he sa...more
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Narrator: Lisa Harrow
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, 2001
Length: 5 hours 10 min.(abridged)
Publisher's Summary
Dr. Jessie Copeland is a respected neurosurgeon who spends her days waging life-and-death battles in the OR and her spare time holed up in a lab, spearheading the development of a robot that could revolutionize brain surgery.
ARTIE - Assisted Robotic Tissue Incision and Extraction - is a fusion of biomechanics and r...more
Narrator: Lisa Harrow
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, 2001
Length: 5 hours 10 min.(abridged)
Publisher's Summary
Dr. Jessie Copeland is a respected neurosurgeon who spends her days waging life-and-death battles in the OR and her spare time holed up in a lab, spearheading the development of a robot that could revolutionize brain surgery.
ARTIE - Assisted Robotic Tissue Incision and Extraction - is a fusion of biomechanics and r...more
My dad is so funny. He can't bring himself to move on to CDs or downloadable audiobooks. Anyway. When he brings me one and says "you should listen to this, it's a good story" of course I say yes.
So now I'm done. It was an abridgement. I think that might be why every once in a while I would be like wait. Did I just doze off? That transition didn't really make sense.
That said, It was a pretty good medical thriller. Kind of like Robin Cook.
So now I'm done. It was an abridgement. I think that might be why every once in a while I would be like wait. Did I just doze off? That transition didn't really make sense.
That said, It was a pretty good medical thriller. Kind of like Robin Cook.
To be honest, although this is an exciting read, I don't think it's superb literature; however, I so thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of this particular story--the action/mystery, the high emotion, the occasional twist, and a little neuroscience (which I especially enjoyed)--that it has become one of my favorite books. It was the first Michael Palmer book I've read, and in my eyes no other book I've read by this author since has equalled it.
This was my first MP book, and it was very good. However, I was almost halfway through the book before the blurb on the back cover started to play out. I was expecting some kind of suspense. This book really had none of that, at least not what I'm used to in a suspense thriller. That said, it was well written and was a captivating story.
Spellbinding! I had left this book in the bathroom and my fiancee (who never reads) picked it up, it didn't leave his hands for the rest of the night.
The character descriptions and the fast pace of this book run like a favorite movie keeping you in suspense until the end.
The character descriptions and the fast pace of this book run like a favorite movie keeping you in suspense until the end.
The reason I never got into thrillers was because 90% of the time they are completely predictable. This book wasn't bad but I was able to figure out what was to happen before I got half way through the book.
Overall it was an easy read and mildly enjoyable.
Overall it was an easy read and mildly enjoyable.
Bought and read it long, long time ago. I was so selective back then, and this novel was my attempt at widening my reading options.
It's a medical thriller, and a good intro novel for any newbies in this genre.
It's a medical thriller, and a good intro novel for any newbies in this genre.
I couldn't put it down -- fast-paced, fascinating story, well written -- and I learned a bit about brain surgery for cancer (not enough to do it myself, tho <bg>). If you like murder mysteries, this one will appeal.
This was worlds better than the last Michael Palmer book I read. I actually stayed up half the night trying to finish it - it was pretty exciting and very interesting.
A neurosurgeon, Dr. Jessie Copeland, is selected by a much feared assassin to operate on his brain tumor and save his life or
else.
else.
I enjoyed this book very much. It is a medical suspense/thriller. It grabbed my attention from beginning to end.
Michael Palmer never disapoints when it comes to action and this book exceeds the mark when it comes to a book that you alomst have to read in one day....
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A frightening hospital mystery. Fast action. We listened audio and that was good!
This book starts out wildly interesting and then by the end tapers off.
Thriller num universo médico, uma escrita de qualidade!( O Paciente )
I liked this book alot. There was lots of action and suspense.
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This was great many twists and turns.
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I'm only on page 100 or so but I love it so far
Outstanding book. Read it in one day!
Excellent read, a definite page-turner
I found it a bit predictable and slow.
Read as part of a Book Club.
I absolutely love medical thrillers, and this book really floated my boat! Neurosurgery with "ARTIE" - Assisted Robotic Tissue Incision and Extraction - robots that will be able to excise tumors that would normally be considered inoperable. And to top it all off, a really, really bad guy named Claude Malloche who has an inoperable brain tumor, and will kill anyone who gets in the way of his getting his robot assisted surgery. Its a wild, nightmare of a ride and an unbelievable terro...more
Better than the average novel
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Michael Palmer, M.D., is the author of the forthcoming A Heartbeat Away (2011), The Last Surgeon, The First Patient, The Fifth Vial, The Society, Fatal, The Patient, Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, and The Sisterhood. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston Cit...more
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