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The Second Opinion By Michael Palmer

The Second Opinion

by Michael Palmer

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The Second Opinion

In The Second Opinion, Michael Palmer checks readers into a medical facility where it pays to question everything…for the alternative might cost you your life.

Dr. Thea Sperelakis has always been an outsider. A brilliant physician with Asperger’s syndrome, her difficulty in dealing with the pressure-cooker medicine and money-driven politics of a major academic hospital led her to go to work for the poor, besieged patients of Doctors Without Borders. It was a decision that deeply disappointed her powerful father, Petros, one of the world’s premier internal medicine specialists and founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston’s ultramodern Beaumont Clinic.

Now Petros has been severely injured by a hit-and-run driver and left in a deep coma. No one at the Beaumont ICU thinks he will survive, and Thea must return home to battle two of her siblings, both physicians, who demand that treatment for their father be withheld.

As Thea uncovers the facts surrounding the incident, it seems more and more to be no accident. Who would want Petros dead? The answers are trapped in his brain…until he sees Thea and begins to blink a terrifying message.

Hardcover: 384 pages

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, LLC ( January 29, 2009 )

Item #: 96-2665

ISBN: 9780312343552

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.92 inches

Product Weight: 15.0 ounces

Loved It!!
February 25, 2010

I liked the fact that the main character had Asperger's Syndrome and rallied against all it's challenges to become a brilliant doctor. I found her and the book totally facinating and the supense wonderful. I truly did not want this book to end. I am amazed to think that anyone would find it boring, but I guess everyone is entitled to their opionions. I read continuously and love to find a book that just becomes part of my world for a while. This was such a book. If you like mysteries with a medical background, you should read it. Great.

Reviewer: Sue M

Boring
November 04, 2009

This is the first book of his I have read. It was quite boring. It just dragged on & on. Spent to much time on Aspergers it simply wasnt necessary to keep referring back to it. I didnt like it @ all.

Reviewer: Gw

Interesting story
September 21, 2009

Liked the combination of medicine and crime! Asperger's Syndrome is near to my heart, so I liked seeing it incorporated in the story. A truly surprise ending.

Reviewer: Linda

A DECENT READ
May 30, 2009

Although not Palmer's best book, it held my interest long enough to finish reading it. I'll still look forward to his other books as I think he is really a good author.

Reviewer: margetj

Good Read
May 24, 2009

Perhaps not as entertaining as some of his other novels, but still it was interesting.

Reviewer: Mary T

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