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by Michael Palmer · Bantam · tapa dura · 324 pages
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En el thriller médico "El Paciente" de Michael Palmer, la Dra. Jessie Copeland, una neurocirujana en el Eastern Mass Medical Center, se encuentra desarrollando un robot llamado ARTIE para revolucionar la cirugía cerebral. Cuando su jefe utiliza ARTIE prematuramente en un caso de alto perfil, la atención mediática atrae a Claude Malloche, un mercenario con un tumor cerebral que exige ser operado con la nueva tecnología. Malloche amenaza la vida de Jessie y de cientos de inocentes para asegurar su cooperación, obligándola a realizar la cirugía más compleja de su carrera bajo una inmensa presión.

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.