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A Case of Need
A Case of Need
Author: Michael Crichton
Intensely timely and ranking with the most gripping and powerful writting that Michael Crichton has producrd, this classic spellbinding thriller of medical scandal and murder combines breathtaking suspence with a penetrating examination of America,s medical establishment.
ISBN: 144241
Publication Date: 7/1969
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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jenasmiles avatar reviewed A Case of Need on + 110 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
This was a great book. I LOVED the details he included about the medical situations. You can tell it was an earlier book but it had all the essentials including the twists we all love.
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Helpful Score: 6
As always, Michael Crighton keeps you wanting to read just a few more pages befor you plan to put it down. Then before you realize it, it's three in the morning and you have to be to work by seven.
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Helpful Score: 4
This is Chrichton's first novel and it's a very good one at that. The book is set pre-Roe v. Wade and deals with the ethics of abortion from the perspective of those in the medical community. A great read.
sarah5775 avatar reviewed A Case of Need on + 386 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This book will keep you guessing until the mystery is revealed.

In the 1960's, a doctor is accused of performing an illegal abortion that led to the death of a patient, the daughter of a respected surgeon from a prominent family. His best friend, a pathologist, tries to clear his name. Who performed the abortion, and is there a conspiracy to hide the truth? This is an excellent mystery and I highly recommend it. It is very readable and you will be hooked early on.
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Helpful Score: 3
I am a nurse so I loved this book. A doctor tries to find what killed a young girl. A good medical mystery. Fascinating writer.
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boomerbooklover avatar reviewed A Case of Need on + 431 more book reviews
Excellent medical mystery.
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Unfortunately, I felt this book was one of Crichton's least entertaining. It also is a bit dated in many of the medical data. I feel it is a book that you read when you have exhuasted many of the oter great Crichton books.
emeraldfire avatar reviewed A Case of Need on
When a young woman dies mysteriously on the operating table and her physician is charged with murder, his colleague is drawn into a world of sex and drugs in order to clear his name. I liked this story although the ending was a little hard to follow. I give it a B+!
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ok read
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If you like medical mysteries and lots of medical terminology this is a great book to read! I really enjoyed reading this and actually learned alot at the same time.
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Good book!
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great medical thriller.Could not put the book down.


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