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49th out of 73 books
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Miracle Cure
by
Michael Palmer (Goodreads Author)
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...more
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...more
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
January 5th 1999
by Bantam
(first published 1998)
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This is a medical thriller about the testing, promoting, and profit involved in the release of a miracle drug-one that would unclog all clogged arteries. The hero, Brian, is a brilliant doctor who had his medical license revoked due to his addiction to pain medication and his illegal efforts to feed his habit. He is given a chance to make a fresh start in prestigious teaching hospital that is actively testing and developing drugs and instruments in partner...more
This is a medical thriller about the testing, promoting, and profit involved in the release of a miracle drug-one that would unclog all clogged arteries. The hero, Brian, is a brilliant doctor who had his medical license revoked due to his addiction to pain medication and his illegal efforts to feed his habit. He is given a chance to make a fresh start in prestigious teaching hospital that is actively testing and developing drugs and instruments in partner...more
Aug 06, 2009
Ana
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2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of medical thrillers/drama, med students, etc.
Miracle Cure: About a former cardiologist who lost his job due to a prescription painkiller addiction originating from an old football injury. And, his father (his football coach, of course) has, rather conveniently for his son the cardiologist, pretty extensive heart problems. And, some big drug company has developed a drug to magically reverse arteriosclerosis. That's pretty much all you need to know. Seriously.
Although I'm really into medical dramas/thrillers I had a lot of problems with this...more
Although I'm really into medical dramas/thrillers I had a lot of problems with this...more
Another Michael Palmer Medical Thriller. In this one we have Brian Holbrook. A promising quarterback who blows a knee and turns to medicine. Becoming a cardiologist he begins a successful practice only to fall to the addiction to painkillers from his knee repairs and looses his license. Working as a bouncer and at a rent-a-car agency to make ends meet he is caring for his father who has on going cardiac problems. They are in the Hospital one day to get his father tested when an emergency down th...more
I've read a few of Michael Palmer's medical thrillers before, and have always thoroughly enjoyed them. This was no exception. Brian Holbrook is a cardiologist - or was, before his addiction to prescription drugs (due to a knee injury from college football) caused him to self-prescribe and lose his license eighteen months earlier. But Brian gets a second chance when his father is admitted to the Boston Heart Institute, and Brian diagnoses a patient with a rare condition, saving a life.
The instit...more
The instit...more
This was a great read about a young Doctor, Brian who is trying desperately to get his life back in order after becoming addicted to pain killers and losing his medical license. When Brian's father is admitted into Boston Heart Institute for chest pains, Brian is unexpectedly called in to another patients room to help a fellow doctor diagnose a dying patient. With a correct diagnoses in place, the chief of medicine is impressed and offers Brian a job at the hospital. Filled with excitement Brian...more
In my last review on North River I explained that my underlying theme for my reading this year, was revolving around the subject of medical profession, and this book ties into that category well. This book, has a very interesting, plot in which there is a new found disease, which is very deadly, and the protagonist who must help stop it, who is a former cardiologist himself, is also trying to take care of his sick father. So, when authors try to portray a mix between a family relationship and th...more
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This book is a medical thriller starring Dr. Michael Holbrook, former football star and one time cardiologist. After a career ending injury, Michael devotes himself to medicine and becomes a crack cardiologist, but his addiction to pain killers cuts his career short. Through a twist of fortune he gets the chance to practice once again...working at Boston Heart Institute. He finds more than he bargained for as he becomes involved with the testing of the "miracle cure" drug Vasclear. Lots of twist...more
Brian Holbrook lost his medical license when he became addicted to painkillers from a football injury. He has finally been hired by the Boston Heart Institute, working in cardiology and with the drug trials for a new miracle medicine, Vasclear, which appears to remove plaque from arteries. He tries and fails to get his father, who has severe heart problems, into the study. Then Brian begins to find problems with the drug, followed by serve reprimands for following up on records of participants f...more
Brian Holbrook felt he was on the fast track to no where, as he was now a man with a checkered past. When he was a big shot heart doctor, he managed to get hooked on prescription medication, got busted and lost his license. In the process, he lost his wife and two daughters to divorce. But after saving a life with an off the wall diagnosis, he was given another chance to be a doctor.
Once he gets on board at Boston Heart Hospital, he realizes that the hospital involved in a medical trial using a...more
Once he gets on board at Boston Heart Hospital, he realizes that the hospital involved in a medical trial using a...more
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I remember liking this book. But, just before registering, I read the blurp on the back cover and found myself thinking: if a docter got banned from being a docter, how can he be practising medicine / testing a new drug? He's not allowed to then?
Well, the above says enough I guess: I'll have to re-read it to find and answer to that question. I don't know if I'll do that, because this genre is not as attractive as it used to be when I bought / read these books many years ago.
Well, the above says enough I guess: I'll have to re-read it to find and answer to that question. I don't know if I'll do that, because this genre is not as attractive as it used to be when I bought / read these books many years ago.
This was a terrific medical thriller. A recovering addict Cardiologist is given a second chance at the Boston Heart Institute. He becomes part of the staff working on the testing of a new miracle drug and becomes less and less comfortable with what he is seeing happen to patients. The more he investigates, the worse the situation gets for him. The climax is exciting and the premise well done. The author's medical background only adds to the reality of the plot.
Jan 16, 2009
Cecilia
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It's really good so far. I'm getting so into it. There's this guy who lost his license to practice medicine because of a drug addiction and when his dad gets a heart attck, he saves someone's life in the hospital and lands a job right there and that gets him his license back. I love Palmer's books. He writes medical dramas and seems to be very well informed on the law as well.
Another really good book by this author--who actually wrote me back! I do have to admit that the conspiracy plot was getting a little old, and the idea that the U.S. government and a medical center are experimenting with chemical weapons and their antidotes on healthy people stretches belief. Still, a fun read. (I think I have this plot mixed up with that of another book)
One of those "medical" mysteries...I like the way the author writes. A new heart drug is about to be approved by the FDA and the main character finds out all the testing is bogus. The ending gets a little bit hokey but overall a good read. Gives you a little bit of insight in to what goes on for a drug to be approved for use.
I have had this book on my shelf for awhile to read. It was a quick read and pulled me in and I just couldn't put it down. Made me worry about if I was gonna have a heart attack while reading about all the heart problems. Good mystery, good characters, well developed. I will read more Michael Palmer books
3 star medical thriller (top 50% of the genre). One of Michael Palmer's many reliable, well-constructed, hospital-based thriller novels. For my full review, see ScienceThrillers.com
Pretty good medical thriller. It had your "standard" plot about corruption and such within the field of medicine but was a good read nevertheless.
Miracle drug for heart patients? That's what Dr. Brian Holbrook is told as he's hired after re-habbing from drug addiction. But is it true?
A well constructed medical thriller with likeable characters especially the protagonist. Not for those who suffer from hypochondria.
Again this is a book of his I read a long time ago and don't remember the particulars but that I did enjoy reading his books.
While listening to the audiobook, the fifth section of nine stopped working. Took it back to to the library and got the book so I could hear how it ends. The second half was better as the suspense built up. Enjoyed the 12 step references too.
found this in one of my boxes. Checked out two more at the library as I had a hard time putting this one down.
i thought it was a good daring book but kinda slow and well........kinda boring.
Typical Michael Palmer - a fast paced good read.
Out of date about aids, homosexuality
My kind of Medical suspense thriller!
very quick read...exciting to the end.
Mar 13, 2009
Wendy
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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couldn't stop reading.
good medical murder mystery.
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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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