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    <body><![CDATA[Written by a former physician - a very good book - tells you maybe more than you want to know about the policies of HMO's, cancer treatment and surgery for pancreatic cancer - but right on target. Highly recommend!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent; when leaders of HMOs are killed, everyone suspects a doctor who has spoken out against managed care, but the doctor and one policewoman find a much more sinister reason for the killings.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another cracking yarn from Palmer. A bit of a Jack Reacher type of yarn in some ways. Predictable but readable, and with excellent characterisation.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though I like Palmer's medical thrillers, I still don't support universal health care, which this book was a big PR for that side of the debate.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very scary medical thriller.  Very enjoyable.  I read it in the middle of the night, it kept me awake.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't help it, I just like his books...formulaic, the writing is average, but darn it, I just enjoy them.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you know anything about HMO's this may freak you out! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was sorta good.  I thought it fell apart at the end.  He could have doen better, as he has in other books I've read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The plot was intriguing but slow to start.  Could not feel the attraction between the two main characters... they had no time to develop anything but just jumped into it.  There were also a few minor subplots that were never developed.  Would have given only 2 stars, but it deserves an extra star si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42009779">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a very fun read. It just flowed very naturally from page to page. The reader becomes absorbed in the story of Dr. Grant being framed. Just when you think you have everything figured out, everything changes! So be prepared for the turn of the century! A wonderful story based on the inju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32365352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm just loving his books.... medical thrillers are just what I need from time to time :) Michael Palmer is not quite as eloquent as Ken Follett but with his medical background - he was a practitioner of internal and emergency medicine for 20 years - he is just the right guy to put those stories of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19606550">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed Michael Palmer books and this one is no exception!  A real page turner.  I enjoy Michael Palmer's medical thrillers more than Robin Cook's - I'll be searching to see if there are other Palmer books I have missed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read several of Michael Palmer's medical mystery thrillers and they were definitely page turners. This book didn't quite live up to my expectations when compared to his previous books. Still a good escape novel, however.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I kind of felt indifferent about this book as I read it. For a while it just seemed like there wasn't much going on. It didn't really pick up until the end of the book. Which I must say I was very pleased with the ending. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating read on Michael Palmer when it deals with the oath that doctors take into a secret society of playing God... almost like The Fifth Vial. A great read!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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&#8212;a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.<br/><br/>At the headquarters of Boston&#8217;s Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She&#8217;s not <br/>the first to die&#8212;nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry.Dr. Will Grant is an overworked and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that affect the delivery of care. But the doctor&#8217;s determination has attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Will&#8217;s professional and personal worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril.  <br/><br/>Rookie detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first big case&#8212;the managed care killings.  To save her career, she has no choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that the assassin is vengeful, cunning,  ruthless&#8212;and may not be working alone. That&#8212;and a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they don&#8217;t want to be the next victims.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it!  It was a rollercoaster ride!  Medical thriller that grabs you around the throat in the first pages and won't let go until its done!]]></body>
    
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