by Michael Palmer · Diagonal Grup 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495808462
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«El paciente» is the medical suspense novel by Michael Palmer, published by Diagonal Grup 62 in hardcover (384 pages, in Spanish).
Jessie Copeland, a neurosurgeon, develops a robot called ARTIE to operate on inoperable brain tumors. The department head uses it in a high-profile case prematurely, and the news attracts a sick mercenary who demands the same treatment. Tension erupts inside the hospital.
Translation by Diego Castillo Morales of the English original The Patient. Gimlet Collection, no. 18; first edition.
For readers of medical suspense and action thrillers with a hospital setting and fast pace.
Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D., was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.
