Robin Cook
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.87 | 46369 Users | 764 Reviews
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| Title | : | Coma |
| Author | : | Robin Cook |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | September 23rd 2014 by Mulholland Books (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Horror. Medical. Suspense |
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The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.
Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning.
Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?
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| Original Title: | Coma |
| ISBN: | 0316334464 (ISBN13: 9780316334464) |
| Setting: | Boston, Massachusetts(United States) |
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Robin Cook pretty much owned the medical thriller. Hmm, I wonder who owns the genre now? This was perhaps his best book.This book was a wild ride. I picked it almost at random because of the audiobook narrator (January LaVoy) and because medical thriller sounded interesting. If I hadn't read the synopsis (which spoils the whole book) I think I would have been a lot more engaged.The good: the time period feels so authentic, from nurse uniforms to pay phones to really aggressive sexism. Of course, I only saw the publication date of the audiobook (2014) and not the publication date of the actual book (1977) so all
Susan Wheeler manages to paradoxically make and break this novel. From the very beginning she is abrasive, overly emotional, over-ambitious, and even a tad conceited. She views herself as a rational individual, an intellectual - yet she responds to every confrontation or negative situation with an instant emotional knee-jerk reaction. In truth, despite my criticisms this served to draw me in more rather than repel me, it seemed like an honest interpretation of what people are really like. It's
I first read this in 1977 at age 18 when it first came out and was a Robin Cook fan thereafter. I decided to re-read it this month and compare what my 18 year old self thought with what my 53 year old self thinks. Third year medical student Susan Wheeler , along with 4 male medical school classmates, are assigned to Boston Memorial Hospital to begin learning first hand about surgery and patient care. There are some aspects of this book and about women in medicine that I really want to discuss.
This book takes dirty hospital politics to extreme levels of grotesque absurdity and thats what made it such a fun read. Some of the dialogue and character interactions come off as strange and stilted, but the book was written during a different time when politics and social issues were completely different than what we deal with now so thats to be expected to a certain degree. Its certainly a bit outdated in some areas, but the main thriller that serves as the center of the plot is still there
Good. Couldn't put it down.
"Coma" is a medical mystery/thriller by Robin Cook. It was the initial book that earned him the reputation as a successful author. It's a pretty good book. A little weird in places. And the main character has all the common sense of a doorknob.Susan is a third year medical student in Boston just starting her first day at Memorial hospital. She soon comes into contact with two patients who have inexplicably ended up in comas. For some reason, she immediately becomes obsessed with these comas and
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