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The Patient

by Michael Palmer
Michael Kramer
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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.

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  • Release date

    February 22, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415947715
      • File size: 311004 KB
      • Duration: 10:47:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 860
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Doctors, arch criminals, robotic surgeons, and rogue CIA agents--Michael Palmer's latest has it all. Gripping from its foreword to its final lines, the story follows a young neurosurgeon in her battle of wits and will with one of the world's most vicious terrorists, Claude Maloche, who demands her care. If she refuses or fails to save his life, Maloche promises that his criminal organization will exact revenge on her and thousands of Bostonians. Narrator Michael Kramer does a masterful job with the fast pace and with keeping the many characters clear in the listener's mind. Kramer moves easily from narrating Palmer's frantic action to plowing through the medical dialogue, all the time using his gentle cadence and strong voice to make for 12 hours of enthralling listening. J.B.B. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 3, 2000
      Palmer's ninth medical thriller (after Miracle Cure) probably isn't the book to be reading when you've got a slight headache. Early on, a star Olympic gymnast feels a small pain in her skull, and soon she's having a brain tumor zapped by a flashy new surgical robot. The author, who was a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine for 20 years, tells readers so much about the actual work of brain surgery that some might decide to skip over a few of the more agonizing moments, such as the frenzied operation on a young boy with a bullet wound. Yet these bloody and painful details put readers firmly inside the skin of Dr. Jessie Copeland, a neurosurgeon in her 40s with a combined undergraduate degree in biology and mechanical engineering. Now working under egomaniacal chief surgeon Carl Gilbride at a top Boston hospital, Jessie gets to try out ARTIE (Assisted Robotic Tissue Incision and Extraction) on cadavers, while Gilbride coaxes foundations to cough up millions for the revolutionary new procedure. Attracted by the media attention generated by ARTIE's use (too early, Jessie thinks) on the gymnast, shadowy terrorist Claude Malloche, known as "the Mist," who also has a brain tumor, comes to the hospital for treatment--and winds up holding patients and staff hostage in case the operation fails. It's finally up to Jessie and a rogue CIA agent to keep everyone healthy. This graft between medical and terrorist thriller has some rough edges, but the operation is a success. Agent, Jane Rotrosen Agency.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Dr. Jessie Copeland, respected neuro-surgeon, teams up with Artie, a robot, to revolutionize brain surgery. A heartless mercenary is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, exactly the type Artie was invented to treat. The mercenary and his co-horts hold hostage Dr. Copeland, the hospital and the city as she works to save him. Reader Harrow, who has a young voice with no trace of an accent, portrays Dr. Copeland's nightmare with precise mood swings and subtle tones of terror. Sloppy editing allows a ringing phone to mar one cassette. This is a good story for those who like action-adventure and technical details of medical procedures. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Take one assassin with an inoperable brain tumor. Add the latest in biotech robotics and its creator, the one neurosurgeon who might save him. Mix in a defrocked CIA agent with a grudge, and you have only a few of the ingredients in this delicious plot. Paul Hecht's powerful voice positively sizzles. Hypnotic in its intensity, his performance allows the nail-biting nightmare to unfold. Hecht delivers each complex character and intricate scene with confidence. With a final sequence somewhere between a video game and a roller coaster ride, Michael Palmer's ninth medical thriller leaves us gasping. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:860
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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