

The Second Opinion
Author: Michael Palmer
Narrator: Franette Liebow
Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 02/17/2009
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Michael Palmer
Narrator: Franette Liebow
Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 02/17/2009
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Michael Palmer (1942-2013) wrote internationally bestselling novels of medical suspense, including The First Patient, The Second Opinion, The Last Surgeon, A Heartbeat Away, Oath of Office and Political Suicide. His book Extreme Measures was adapted into a movie starring Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. Palmer earned his bachelor's degree at Wesleyan University, and he attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. He spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine. In addition to his writing, Palmer was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency. He lived in eastern Massachusetts.
I received this book in audio book form and enjoyed it very much. It was a very good medical thriller that had some nice twists and turns that I found interesting. I liked Palmer's heroine, Thea Sperelakis, a medical Dr who has Asperger Syndrome. When Thea's father is severely injured in an accident......more
Türkçe çıkmış bütün kitapları kitaplığımda olmasına rağmen bir türlü okuyamadığım bir yazardı En son çıkmış kitabından başladım ve de sevdim kitabı Aspergers Sendromu olan Doktor kızımız Thea'nın bakış açısıyla ilerleyen bu kitapta bu hastalık çok iyi açıklanmıştı kızımız kendini çok iyi geliştirmiş......more
In The Second Opinion, Dr. Thea Sperelakis, a brilliant doctor with Asperger’s Syndrome returns from the Congo to find her equally brilliant father in the hospital in critical condition. The more time Thea spends at the hospital, the more she realizes that “accident” that injured her father was no a......more
this book had an awesome start out of the gate. there was lots of medical jargon and occurrences, it was almost like ER or Chicago Hope (tv medical dramas). then it happened, the main character met a man and started to fall in love, which turned her into a ball of marshmallow fluff (i am using that......more
I am becoming a Michael Palmer fan. His books have fleshed-out characters with whom you can empathize, interesting premises, and (almost) believable plot lines. However in this book, like in Natural Causes, he puts in one plot twist too many at the end, taking the story from engrossing to prepostero......more