Helpful Score: 6
I enjoy Robin Cook's books, but did not care for this one. There's at least as much courtroom drama in this one as there is medical, so be warned. There are huge plot holes. Someone you think is a bad guy just kind of goes away at the end. Oh, and the end? Rushed and contrived. Big letdown after Marker.
awesome! read "marker" before "crisis" -- Jack and Laurie saga. Will keep you guessing!!!
Another good book by Robin Cook! -- Oh, look, I made a poem! :)
Not my favorite of Cook's. but still a good read.
Typical Robin Cook: plasticene prose, stilted dialogue, and a riveting medical mystery. Cook's writing will challenge nearly every vocabulary, causing even a voracious reader and writer like me to run to the dictionary on more than one occasion. I'm also pretty sure that Cook has never had a conversation with an actual person. Real people just don't talk like his characters do. The one saving grace, and the only reason I keep reading Cook's books, is that his plots are always interesting and the themes timely in terms of the issues facing the medical profession. Clearly he knows what he's talking about. The challenge, often, is trying to figure it out.
Great read just like all his books.
Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical negligence. He's shocked, outraged, and humiliated--especially now that he has landed his dream job and is able to help others and earn a fabulous income without compromise. His idyllic situation comes to grinding halt, and the situation is about to get much worse as he becomes the fall guy for his employer, an incredible conceirge medical practice.
Wrongly brought into a malpractice suit, a physician and his family fight for their lives.
Not his best. Started slow, but over all I liked it.
The story is sort of interesting, but the book doesn't move at the frenetic pace of some of Cook's other stories. It certainly isn't scary or edge-of-your-seat. But it does offer an interesting look into the recently developed idea of "concierge" medicine and the potential pitfalls thereof.
Robin Cook, the inventor of the medical thriller shows the profession's twisted side of the current medical malpractice crisis.
Good book-surprise ending
loved it
