by Michael Palmer · Bantam · tapa dura · ISBN 9780553109832
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«The Patient» is Michael Palmer's medical thriller novel, published by Bantam in hardcover (324 pages, in English).
Neurosurgeon Jessie Copeland develops ARTIE, a robot capable of removing brain tumors considered inoperable. When her hospital captures worldwide attention for using it ahead of schedule, mercenary Claude Malloche, ill with a deadly tumor, forces her to operate on him and endangers the lives of Jessie and hundreds of innocents.
It was originally published in 2000 by Bantam; its author, Michael Palmer, was an emergency physician in the United States.
For fans of medical thrillers and clinical suspense, with a hospital setting.
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.
