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Mindbend
by
Robin Cook
Future doctor Adam Schonberg loved his wife. That was why he took a job with the giant drug firm Arolen, for the money he needed for their coming baby.
His wife, Jennifer, felt she would get the best of care at the Julian Clinic as her pregnancy progressed.
It seemed a happy coincidence that the Julian Clinic was owned by Arolen...until Adam Schonberg slowly began to sus...more
His wife, Jennifer, felt she would get the best of care at the Julian Clinic as her pregnancy progressed.
It seemed a happy coincidence that the Julian Clinic was owned by Arolen...until Adam Schonberg slowly began to sus...more
ebook, 352 pages
Published
January 2nd 1986
by Signet Book
(first published 1984)
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It's pretty amazing to me how a medical thriller written in 1985 can still seem so relevant today. Mindbend is a quick read, if you like Robin Cook you know what you're getting into.
My problem with this one? I felt like there wasn't enough ending there. Spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution!
Jumping straight to an epilogue seemed like a neat way around dealing with any of the aftermath of the things that had happened. It was nice to see Jennifer have her baby. But as a reader, I want to see the...more
My problem with this one? I felt like there wasn't enough ending there. Spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution!
Jumping straight to an epilogue seemed like a neat way around dealing with any of the aftermath of the things that had happened. It was nice to see Jennifer have her baby. But as a reader, I want to see the...more
Jan 13, 2011
Kathy Schultz
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Robin Cook fans
I didn't like this medical thriller as much as I have liked Cook's other books. Adam Schonberg is a third-year medical student when his wife Jennifer becomes pregnant. Adam finds the loss of her income and the cost of an infant to be overwhelming; so he makes the decision to drop out of medical school and work as a salesman for a very powerful drug company Arolen Pharmaceuticals. Just how powerful its control over the medical field is, Adam is about to find out. When his own wife's pregnancy bec...more
I read this book years ago and liked it. And now 23 years later, rummaging through my attic, I came across it. Only remembering it was a good book and with no memory of the story, I read it again. I was not disappointed. The story can be relevent to today save for a few situations that remind the reader it was published in the 80's...The main character travels a lot and is unreachable by his wife who is pregnant back home. Cell phone call, hello!!! Wait a minute, oh ya, everyone didn't have a ce...more
Mindbend focused on some rather controversial issues, most prominently featured being abortion and stem cell research. Originally written in 1985, Mindbend was well ahead of its time, delving into hot button topics still fiercely debated today.
Adam is a medical student forced to drop out of school and take a job with Arolen, a pharmaceutical company, when his wife, Jennifer, becomes unexpectedly pregnant. Early in the book, Jennifer accompanies a friend getting an abortion and the friend dies wh...more
Adam is a medical student forced to drop out of school and take a job with Arolen, a pharmaceutical company, when his wife, Jennifer, becomes unexpectedly pregnant. Early in the book, Jennifer accompanies a friend getting an abortion and the friend dies wh...more
Well wat can i say .. if u have read one of Robin Cook u have read them all. As the title says there are these bad-money-minded-villains who are out to make money by 'bending the minds' of the Doctors of a certain clinic. These villians run a pharma company and try to sell their products thro these 'bent-minded' docs!! and so on and so forth. Afcourse the hero - who is a student studying medicine and quits it to take on a job at the EEVVIILL company!! He solves the case and the END of story!
I have read a few of Robin Cook's books and liked them a lot, especially Contagion. So it's sad to say that Mind Bend didn't live up to my expectations when it comes to a good read. I felt like the book was rushed a little especially towards the end. Also, the premise of the book was extremely unrealistic in my opinion which is unfamiliar with Cook books. I would recommend this book only if you can get it for $3 or less and want something to pass the time
Always like to read medical thrillers. What got me going most, was an excerpt from the author at the back of this book about mixing business with healthcare. Being that I work in healthcare I definitely see the changes he talks about throughout the book and in his excerpt. It is too bad that businees has today and continues to have such an impact on how our patients are cared for today. Too bad, they can't be slowed down or stopped.
An interesting story about a truly dysfunctional family. A life journey through the looking glass of one family. It has all the feel of an Agusten Burroughs book without any real wit nor humor. If anything it proves that psychologists should never have children.
I'd give the first third 2 stars (but the stage had to be set somehow, huh?). The rest I liked, especially in the context that it's 25 years old. Psychotropic drugs, greedy M.D. characters, & the pharmaceutical industry (some things haven't changed much).
considering the fact that the book was written in 1084, I think it is okay as science fiction if not a medical thriller. Compared to what we know of stem cells today, it is unbelievable how little was known about them 25 years back.
Med student quits and goes to work for pharmaseudical co. Finds drug co is brainwashing physicians on cruises. Exposes. Interesting comments by RC on medicine becoming "business". This was written in 1985. Cook is about the same age as ARD.
Formulaic but gripping. Cook comes across as more life-affirming than I'd expected, which takes away some of the guilt in the guilty pleasure of reading a medical thriller. Readable in an afternoon.
I loved the book, being a researcher myself. It's a great example of how easy it is to loose sight of the humanistic purpose in healthcare when the almighty dollar is involved. It makes you think twice before accepting that ball-point pen from the drug company.
It's a Robin Cook book: the medical business is evil, but this time it's on a whole new level. Released in 1985, some of the technology is outdated but don't let that deter you from being afraid of everything about going to the hospital.
Read this years and years ago...Can't remember how much I enjoyed it, but I think I remember liking everything by Cook.
I thouht this book was pretty good, but I'm not much interested in medical thrillers..
I think Robin Cook needs one week to write something like this ... Insipid & banal.
suffers from terminally stupid characters, and yet I couldn't put it down
Tells how some ppl are brainwashed to do the role of the evil ones.
Not as believable as other books of his.
The story took long to captivate me. I was done with over 150 pages, only when I started to get interest in the book. Though I've read Robin Cook after long, but having read outbreak before I had great expectations from this one. It was only the climax that intrigued me but was worth reading it. And it took me 1/4th the time from the climax to the end compared to the time I spent on the rest of the book.
Good candy reading.
First book I read by Robin Cook and I loved it!
Apr 05, 2013
Eddy Allen
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery-and-suspense
When a future doctor trusts his pregnant wife's care to the clinic operated by the giant chemical company where he works, he does not suspect that she will be subjected to terrifying experimentation. "Chillingly entertaining and thought-provoking".--Associated Press.
A 'simple' medical thriller. I was, at one time, hooked. Then I bought nearly all books by Cook and read one after the other. And then, the more I read, the more predictable they got. To speak in modern terms, a kind of chicklit for the medical thriller genre.
Aug 20, 2009
Carolyn C.
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Anyone - probably high school and up
I enjoy Robin Cook medical mystery books...I've probably read a million of them. This one was interesting...not one of his best. It really seemed to lean toward sci-fi rather than a medical mystery.
Amazing, awesome, going to use the Author's Note in my English class.
I never actually finished the book because I just couldn't bring myself to. I tried really but it was just that bad. It read like a lame 70's sci-fi movie.
Received this book (paperback edition)autographed by the author himself on my 19th birthday. Great gift!
This was a good book, as all his are. Only problem is they all seem so exactly the same.
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Librarian Note: Not to be confused with British novelist Robin Cook a pseudonym of Robert William Arthur Cook.
Dr. Robin Cook (born May 4, 1940 in New York City, New York) is an American doctor / novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.
He is best known for being the author who combined medical writing with the thriller genre of writing. Several of his books have been b...more
More about Robin Cook...
Dr. Robin Cook (born May 4, 1940 in New York City, New York) is an American doctor / novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.
He is best known for being the author who combined medical writing with the thriller genre of writing. Several of his books have been b...more
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