false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255657470m/3701072.jpg 3701072 13 Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger’s syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled  patients of Doctors Without Borders. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated internal medicine specialists in the world, and the founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston’s sprawling, powerful Beaumont Clinic. Thea’s rewarding life in Africa is turned upside-down when Petros is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver. He is in the Beaumont ICU, in a deep coma. No one thinks he will survive. Thea must return home. Two of Petros’ other children, both physicians, battle Thea and her eccentric brother, Dimitri, by demanding that treatment for their father be withheld. As Thea uncovers the facts surrounding the disaster, it seems more and more to be no accident. Petros, himself, is the only witness. Who would want him dead? The answers are trapped in his brain...until he looks at Thea and begins slowly to blink a terrifying message. In <I>The Second Opinion</I>, Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test. With sympathetic characters and twists and betrayals that come from the most unlikely places, <I>The Second Opinion</I> will make you question...everything. 3744586 17 2 2009 Second Opinion total:228|5:32|4:84|3:79|2:27|1:6| 228 793 345 73 4 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:29:05 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:29:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 15:06:13 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 07:42:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 07:54:52 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 08:10:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 06:00:23 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:39:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 03 22:43:52 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 22:53:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 10:19:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 07:29:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 21:56:41 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 20:18:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 16:41:20 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 19:56:30 -0700 2009
I particularly liked the author's treatment of his main character, a woman with Asperger's syndrome. And then to find out at the end of the book that the author's own son has the condition was particularly poignant.
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