The Patient, Michael Palmer
The Patient, Michael Palmer
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The Patient

Author: Michael Palmer

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/22/2005


Synopsis

His name is ARTIE, a miracle of bio-engineering that is about to transform the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Jessie Copeland knows him better than anyone else at Eastern Mass Medical Center- and knows it's too soon to be using the tiny robot on a living patient's brain. But, Jessie's department chief is too busy to worry about such ethics. And neither of them has any idea that ARTIE will attract a patient from their worst nightmares.
Claude Malloche is a master assassin, more rumor than man, for whom murder is an art. No one can identity his face. Now Malloche has a deadly brain tumor, and he intends to have the best neurosurgeon in the world operate on it.
To ensure Jessie's cooperation, Malloche has devised a plan of intimidation that puts at risk her life and the lives of hundreds of innocent people. Neurosurgery requires nerves of steel, but in coming up with a scheme to fulfill her oath as a doctor while thwarting a diabolical killer, Jessie will be performing the most complex surgery of her career- on a knife-edge of terror.

About The Author

Michael Palmer, MD, (1942–2013) was the author of Miracle CureCritical JudgmentSilent TreatmentNatural CausesExtreme MeasuresFlashbackSide Effects, and The Sisterhood. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and served as an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program.Michael Kramer is an actor, director, and narrator. He has recorded more than 100 audiobooks, as well as titles for the Library of Congress Talking Books program. Among the recognition he has garnered for his narration are AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award and the Torgi Award. Mr. Kramer lives in Washington, DC, where he is active in the area’s theater scene, and has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater J.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Sue on 2009-05-24 15:52:09

Loved this book. So up to date.

AudiobooksNow review by Sherri on 2010-12-01 09:00:35

I very much enjoyed this book, and have added Michael Palmer to my Favorite Authors list. It is fast paced with lots of twists and turns. I thought I had it figured out, but there is a surprize at the end. He reminds be a bit of John Grisham.I was a bit disappointed with a section near the end of the book. It looks like the author changed the ending a bit, and the editor missed a pretty obvious mistake. While frustrating and a bit of a distraction, the overall story is very well written.

Goodreads review by Paul on February 20, 2024

Terrorism in the operating room! In THE PATIENT, Palmer has hypothesized ARTIE (Assisted Robotic Tissue Incision and Extraction), a technology that will assist surgeons in the removal of previously inoperable tumors and crafted a high voltage suspense thriller set in the arena of the neurosurgery op......more

Goodreads review by Mercedes on July 07, 2021

3,5......more


Quotes

“[A] rip-roaring page-turner.”—New York Post

The Patient might be [Palmer’s] most riveting book yet, leaving hardly enough time to take a breath.”—Denver Post

The Patient is what Die Hard movies are made of: brilliantly nasty terrorists hectoring innocent folks, with only a wisecracking lone wolf to forestall.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel