Coma
Book description
The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the…
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3 authors picked Coma as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Robin Cook is the Grandaddy of medical thriller writers, and I read this not long after it first came out. It is the chilling story of a medical student who investigates why normally fit and healthy patients are suddenly lapsing into coma.
There is a strong and intelligent female protagonist, which is important to me. Yes, she can cry and even fall into the arms of a man, but she needs to be intelligent and stay strong, and Susan does that here. At the time, I was impressed by the level of authenticity but didn’t believe that anyone in the…
From Annie's list on medical thrillers featuring doctors and nurses behaving very, very badly.
Coma was probably the first medical mystery I read.
Robin Cook parlayed his medical expertise into a medical thriller. Little did I know that when I read this as a high school student in the late 1970s, someday I would write my own mystery novel based on my medical expertise as a forensic pathologist.
From A.L.'s list on authors who parlayed their professions into a book.
I began medical school a year after Coma’s publication, and soon it was the rave among my classmates. Through a unique and imaginative plotline, Mr. Cook explored the possibility of what we as medical students feared becoming vulnerable to: the thought a physician could invoke god-like powers by means of advance medical knowledge and an idolizing patient population.
From Carlos' list on science fiction revealing tragic human emotion.
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