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    Miracle Cure
    Miracle Cure
    Miracle Cure
    Audiobook12 hours

    Miracle Cure

    Written by Michael Palmer

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    With each New York Times best-seller, ER physician turned author Michael Palmer sets a new standard for medical suspense. Packed with factual authenticity only a doctor could prescribe, this book is Palmer's most electrifying thriller yet. Dr. Brian Holbrook-former football star and disgraced chief of cardiology-is given the chance of a lifetime when he gets a call from the prestigious Boston Heart Institute. They need him to join an elite team testing the new miracle drug Vasclear. With his father suffering from a dangerous heart condition, Holbrook seizes the opportunity to save his reputation, and also his father's life. However, when patients start dying mysteriously, and colleagues begin to disappear, it's up to Holbrook to find the truth before it's too late. Ron McLarty's inspired narration will carry you spellbound from one audiotape to the next as greed and murder join forces in the shining halls of a world-renowned hospital.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 8, 2013
    ISBN9781490607832
    Miracle Cure
    Author

    Michael Palmer

    Michael Palmer (1942-2013) wrote internationally bestselling novels of medical suspense, including The First Patient, The Second Opinion, The Last Surgeon, A Heartbeat Away, Oath of Office and Political Suicide. His book Extreme Measures was adapted into a movie starring Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. Palmer earned his bachelor's degree at Wesleyan University, and he attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. He spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine. In addition to his writing, Palmer was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency. He lived in eastern Massachusetts.

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    • 5/5
      Very good book!! I was kept spellbound from the very beginning!
    • 3/5
      Brian Holbrook is a former cardiologist, who has now gotten a job at the Boston Heart Institute, and corresponding hospital. Because you need a job as a doctor, before you can have your license reinstated, this is a catch 22, because nobody will hire a doctor whose license has been yanked. He's been struggling to survive the last few years working at a car rental desk, and as a nightclub bouncer. But because he is consulted, while he's in the hospital with his father, by a former classmate of his from medical school, he ends up making a suggestion on an emergency, that saves the life of the woman in the ER. For this reason, the director of the hospital is impressed with him, and gives him a job.

      The character of This doctor is an idiot. He lost his license before, for stealing pain pills. Now he's got his license back, and he's stealing heart medication for his father, possibly jeopardizing the patient's health, he's stealing the medicine from, for his father.
      His father suffered horribly through recuperation from a botched bypass operation years before. So now, when his heart health has deteriorated, he is determined not to have another bypass. Instead, he's impressed by what he's heard about this drug called Vasclear, That is not yet approved by the FDA. However, it's undergoing clinical trials at the hospital that Brian is working at.
      "For the past week, Brian had encountered no difficulties in manipulating the reserve supply of beta Vasclear in the clinic refrigerator. In addition, he had exchanged saline for Vasclear once with each of two patients. Both were well into their second year of treatment. It seemed impossible that there could have been any harm done to either of them.

      If nothing else, I did learn a few things anatomically, in this book. One thing I learned something about, was catheterization. Not of penises, of the heart.
      The protagonist's father, though only 63 years old, has pronounced heart disease. It's not really explained why, but I can only assume that he drank a lot, maybe smoked a lot, and had a heavy meat diet.
      So in this one excerpt, his father, whose name is Jack, is undergoing a catheterization of his heart, to see to what extent his veins/arteries are blocked, and to what extent his previous bypass has deteriorated.
      Brian and his father had gone out for lunch to a local deli, and his father has suffered some kind of coronary event in the restaurant.
      "... The first step would involve local anesthesia to Jack's right groin and the 'blind' insertion through the skin of two long, thin, hollow catheters -- one into his femoral vein, then up the vena cava, and into the right atrium and ventricle of the heart; and the other right next to it, into his femoral artery, then up the aorta, and into the two corresponding Chambers on the left side of the heart. The separate catheters were necessary because, except in certain congenital and disease conditions, there was no direct connection between the right chambers, which pumped blood to the lungs, and the left, which received blood from the lungs and pumped it through the aorta to the coronary arteries and the rest of the body."
      Interesting.

      The Vasclear that Brian has managed to steal for his father, has not been working. In the end, his father ends up in the emergency room, under the knife of a brilliant cardiologist named Dr Laj Randa, who all this time has berated Brian for believing the stories of the "miracle drug Vasclear," saying that it's all hype, and that his father will only benefit from surgery. Brian and his father both, sadly suffer from Jack's determination not to undergo an additional bypass, when Dr Randa is unable to save him.

      When I worked as attendance secretary in a primary school front office, I had to sub for a nurse that we didn't have, when children came in with some sort of physical complaint. When a child came in with a nosebleed, as they very often did, I told them to hang their head over the sink in the nurse's office, turn on the water for them, and tell them to rinse themself off with water, as I could not bear to look at the sight of blood, without becoming nauseous.
      When I read this excerpt from this book, my queasiness at certain medical situations is reinforced:
      "Brian slipped on a rubber glove, worked his hand between the Man's legs and under his scrotum, and did a rapid rectal exam. Then he smeared a bit of stool on a chemically impregnated card and added a drop of developer to test for blood."
    • 3/5
      Dr Brian Holbrook has problems. He was a very successful heart surgeon until his prescription drug addiction got out of control and got him out of a job. He's now clean and trying very hard to get back into medicine. His father has an incident and he ends up in Boston's prestigious heart hospital and he Brian gets a chance at a new job.The hospital is working on a new drug. It seems to be a miracle cure for heart congestion. However some of the early patients are dying, Brian wants to know but its putting him in danger.It sometimes feels like when you read one novel about this topic you've read them all. While interesting it's pretty predictable.