"Heartpounding suspense," hailed Entertainment Weekly of Peter
Clement's first medical thriller, Lethal Practice. Now the former
ER physician has done it again--combining his technical expertise
with a page-burning plot to create a chillingly plausible novel of
suspense.
With authentic detail and a surgeon's precision, Clement captures
the tense, electrifying atmosphere of a big city hospital turned
into a flash point. For in Fatal Medicine, one threat is more
dangerous than contagion: the threat of human beings deciding who
should live and who should die. . . .
Death is a daily, sometimes hourly, occurrence at St. Vincent's
Hospital in Buffalo, New York. Now, in his pressure cooker career,
Dr. Earl Garnet has broken the cardinal rule of modern medicine: he
publicly blames a powerful HMO for practicing "no-fault murder" in
the death of an eighteen-month-old baby. The HMO swiftly strikes
back, igniting a debilitating boycott of the hospital. But after
several accidents nearly cost patients their lives, the true
bloodletting begins. A doctor is found sprawled out in the parking
lot, his throat cut ear to ear.
Blamed for instigating the chaos, Earl Garnet knows that he faces
more than a deadly power play. The doctor may have uncovered a
conspiracy reaching from the halls of one of the nation's most
influential HMOs to a small, experimental clinic in Mexico, where
yet another of his patients went for treatment and disappeared. To
find answers, Garnet must wade deep into the murky, surreal
workings of today's health care industry.
Smart, tough, crackling with suspense, and vivid in its hospital
setting, this visionary novel instantly places Peter Clement in the
distinguished company of Michael Palmer and Robin Cook. Make no
mistake: The Procedure is the work of a first-rate physician and an
absolutely brilliant storyteller.
"From the Paperback edition."
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