By Peter Clement
ISBN-10: 0449006220
ISBN-13: 9780449006221
"Heartpounding suspense," hailed leisure Weekly of Peter Clement's first clinical mystery, deadly perform. Now the previous ER general practitioner has performed it again--combining his technical services with a page-burning plot to create a chillingly believable novel of suspense.With real aspect and a surgeon's precision, Clement captures the stressful, electrifying surroundings of a large urban sanatorium changed into a flash element. For in deadly medication, one chance is extra harmful than contagion: the specter of people determining who may still reside and who should still die. . . .Death is an everyday, occasionally hourly, incidence at St. Vincent's clinic in Buffalo, manhattan. Now, in his strain cooker profession, Dr. Earl Garnet has damaged the cardinal rule of contemporary drugs: he publicly blames a strong HMO for training "no-fault homicide" within the dying of an eighteen-month-old child. The HMO rapidly moves again, igniting a debilitating boycott of the health center. yet after a number of injuries approximately price sufferers their lives, the real bloodletting starts. a physician is located sprawled out within the parking zone, his throat lower ear to ear.Blamed for instigating the chaos, Earl Garnet is familiar with that he faces greater than a perilous energy play. The general practitioner can have exposed a conspiracy attaining from the halls of 1 of the nation's such a lot influential HMOs to a small, experimental sanatorium in Mexico, the place another of his sufferers went for remedy and disappeared. to discover solutions, Garnet needs to wade deep into the murky, surreal workings of cutting-edge well-being care industry.Smart, tricky, crackling with suspense, and shiny in its sanatorium atmosphere, this visionary novel immediately locations Peter Clement within the distinctive corporation of Michael Palmer and Robin cook dinner. Make no mistake: The technique is the paintings of a major health care provider and a fully impressive storyteller.
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According to this usual spiel of theirs, the delay was then her doing. Reminding her of company policy regarding trivial visits, and their refusing to pre authorize payment of costly tests, was simply standard procedure, not a violation of any law. The fact that she second-guessed her initial impulse to get the child help after hearing the reminder made it her responsibility, not theirs. And legally, they're right. " Only the first-year rookies let out exclamations of disgust and surprise. Everyone else in the room was well used to how the deadly game for profit was played.
Seventy," a distant voice said. I sensed I was finished. Even if I survived this, if they discovered I was an impostor, they'd kill me anyway. The plan I'd made before coming here had gone so wrong--I'd stumbled into so much more than I'd prepared for. I felt the anesthetist roughly extend my head and flex my neck, as though forcing me to sniff a flower. I still could feel enough to know he'd plopped the mask onto my face, covering my nose and mouth. Then, from even farther away, I heard him mutter what I feared would be my epitaph.
Even if I survived this, if they discovered I was an impostor, they'd kill me anyway. The plan I'd made before coming here had gone so wrong--I'd stumbled into so much more than I'd prepared for. I felt the anesthetist roughly extend my head and flex my neck, as though forcing me to sniff a flower. I still could feel enough to know he'd plopped the mask onto my face, covering my nose and mouth. Then, from even farther away, I heard him mutter what I feared would be my epitaph. "Shit! " Chapter 1 Five weeks earlier: Tuesday, October 12, 7:00 am.