Miracle Cure

by Michael Palmer

The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well....

After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he's been chosen to join the medical team testing a new miracle drug. The initial results are so promising that Brian pushes to get his father--who suffers from a dangerous heart condition--accepted into the study.

But Brian is beginning to suspect his superiors are hiding something. Why are crucial records disappearing? Why did a patient making startling progress suddenly die? Is the miracle drug a prescription for death? The answers could cost Brian more than his career. For at Boston Heart Institute, knowing too much is the quickest way to the morgue.

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Medical, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime

431 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 2, 1998

About the author

Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D., was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adopted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.

Reviews

[Austin George · Rating 3 out of 5]

Miracle Cure is my first ever book by Michael Palmer. I gave him a try as I couldn't find any medical thriller books by Robin Cook and Tess Gerritsen at the library. Though not a masterpiece it was engrossing enough to turn the pages. Having recently come across quality writing by Rabindranath Tagore and Orhan Pamuk, Michael Palmer's writing fades away in comparison. It was Okayish. But he more than made up for his shortcomings in the quality of writing with an engaging medical story.

The story basically revolves around Vasclear, a miracle cardiac drug. The book took me into the world of cardiology. Learnt many things about the human heart, apart from the things learnt at school I mean. Heart surgeries performed in the story were interesting. I didn't understand everything completely but at least I got some idea how they are done. The working of the FDA in the US was also good to know. How medical drugs are approved by them for general public use, that kind of stuff. Only boring moments in the book were the Russian mafia part and some action scenes. Author should have focused on his medical writing instead of mafia which he doesn't know how to write.

[Julia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not very well written, but a good narrative. Palmer's medical thrillers need more factual science in order to get around the often ridiculous (yet chilling and on some level eerily logical) premise. This character in particular took way too long to do something.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Robin Cook...... you have company. In the medical thriller great author club! Maybe Michael Palmer is your pen name? This book was an incredible read. Very scary if it is in fact the truth of how drugs are approved in the US! I could not stop reading this one! A true page turner. Happy reading!

[Jay Pruitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

What would it be worth to discover the cure for heart disease? What dollar value could be placed on the possession of such knowledge? With billions of dollars at stake, those who would stand to benefit will go to great extents to insure nothing gets in the way of FDA approvals for such a miracle drug... potentially even murder. This thriller will really make you start to wonder about what goes on behind the scenes and whether we're all just a bunch of lab rats used as pawns by the medical community.

[Lynn Pembroke · Rating 4 out of 5]

My third Palmer medical thriller. I've loved them all. Can't wait to read another. It's refreshing to read good stories without having to have foul language and explicit sex scenes. Less is more. This book has twist all the way through to the epilogue.

[Katherine · Rating 1 out of 5]

boring, predictable...

[Pablo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuando a Brian Holbrook, médico de Boston que perdió la matrícula por abuso de sustancias se le presenta la oportunidad de volver a trabajar, no lo piensa dos veces. Se integra a la clínica Vasclear, llamada así por un medicamento experimental homónimo que promete ser la cura para la arterioesclerosis. Pero cuando Brian comienza a ver ciertas irregularidades en el programa, su instinto le dice que en su trabajo no todo es lo que parece...
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Comencé a leer a Michael Palmer hace un tiempo y a pesar de que no es Robin Cook (Maestro y creador del thriller médico) logra entretener al lector con sus novelas a su vez que le va nutriendo de una infinidad de conceptos médicos (En este sentido es más técnico que Cook).
La historia en si me ha gustado bastante. A veces hay momentos en los que la trama se estanca pero eso se puede atribuir a que Palmer se extiende sobremanera en la parte técnica de la medicina en vez de avanzar con el contenido referido a la ficción; en la segunda mitad del libro es que uno se da cuenta de que todos esos detalles terminan siendo importantes para el desenlace que vendrá luego. Con respecto a los personajes, están logrados correctamente pero en la medida justa puesto que los hay muchos y cada uno tiene un aporte significativo.
Creo que lo que plantea Palmer es una dura crítica a las farmacéuticas acerca de hasta donde son capaces de llegar con tal de que se les apruebe un medicamento nuevo y que es lo que están dispuestos a hacer para lograrlo.
En fin, recomendado para aquellos que estén interesados en el género, a los que les gustan los dramas médicos o a los que prefieren pasar un buen rato con una novela de doctores más dramática que Grey's Anatomy😜

[Keri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brian Holbrook felt he was on the fast track to no where, as he was now a man with a checkered past. When he was a big shot heart doctor, he managed to get hooked on prescription medication, got busted and lost his license. In the process, he lost his wife and two daughters to divorce. But after saving a life with an off the wall diagnosis, he was given another chance to be a doctor.

Once he gets on board at Boston Heart Hospital, he realizes that the hospital involved in a medical trial using a medicine that is on the cusp of getting approved through the FDA. Which would of course mean millions of dollars for some savvy doctors.

But Brian begins to notice that patients that have been on the drug awhile are having a strange reaction. Is this just a symptom of something else or is this directly related to the new miracle medication. Once Brian begins to dig deeper into past patients lives, things start getting a bit more sinister in his. Once his best friend turns up missing, he realizes that he is in over his head. How will he get of of this nightmare now and who is going to believe an ex-junkie like him?

No one writes a great medical thriller like Michael Palmer does and this one was no exception. The only slight problem I had is an incident that Brian started the first week he was at the hospital and that led me to believe he wasn't as rehabilitated as he appeared. No he didn't ingest anymore drugs, but it was something that took me awhile to get around. In the end Brian did the right thing, but I don't know if two wrongs made a right in this case. You will have to read to see what I mean and see how you feel about it.

Happy Reading.

[Reet · Rating 3 out of 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."
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The doctor who discovered and helped develop Vasclear, supposedly discovered it while on a trip to the Amazon River basin in colombia.
The tribe members he came across were primitive meat eaters that chewed on the boiled bark of some sort of tree every day and live to be a hundred or more with no sign of hardening of the arteries.
However, he had no money to "analyze the contents of the bark, isolate the bioactive substance, synthesize it, and test it.... wanted to retain as much control and profit as possible," so he "made a deal with the devil," the Chechen Mafia.
So that was the story behind the Newberry Lab, the company that developed a Vasclear.
Now they see this doctor, Brian Holbrook, digging into the history of testing on patients with Vasclear, and they're determined not to let him find out the truth about it.

I enjoyed this book for what I found out about heart conditions. My father had congestive heart failure when he died, but nobody else in my family had heart disease. Thus, I know little about it.
But, I did not like the "romantic part" of the book. I had to skip over some parts where the doctor and somebody involved in the FDA, got together, and had sex.
Blech. Triggering for me.

[Sorcha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found in the back of the cupboard (ahem!)[return]

Run of the mill story of a Doctor, struck off for stealing drugs, finally getting back to work, only to get involved with a new cardio drug being trialled and rushed through FDA.

So-So read, started getting bored and skimming 2/3rds of the way through

[Stephanie Bruce · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the first book I read by Michael Palmer. I wanted to start with one of his earliest books and go forward. The first two thirds of the book was enough to keep my interest and continue reading and then it got great. The last third was excitement and twists that made this book a great read. I will continue to read many if not all the books by this author.

[Ronald B. Lind · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read Realistic medical descriptions

As a heart bypass patient I found the medical descriptions informative and interesting.
Good pace of writing and held interest through out.

[Betty Burkman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read to the very end

Well developed plot. It holds the readers attention to the last page. I enjoyed it so much that I didn't want the story to end..if you like medical mysteries this is definitely a 5 star read!

[Lysergius · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tedious in the extreme.

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well constructed medical thriller with likeable characters especially the protagonist. Not for those who suffer from hypochondria.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is Michael Palmer in his prime, a gripping medical thriller set in a hospital that left me guessing until the end. Dr. Brian Holbrook was an accomplished cardiologist until a drug problem that plagued him since a bad injury on the college football field escalated out of his control. Having lost his career and his wife, Holbrook finds himself back living with his father, Jack, an ex-coach whose extensive cardiac history, including a complicated bypass surgery that leaves him vowing to never go under the knife again, troubles Brian, who finds himself powerless to do anything to improve his father's situation. When Jack has a heart attack during a trip to Boston with Brian, he is taken to the Boston Heart Institute for treatment, which is where one of Brian's friends from medical school now practices. Although a different doctor takes care of Jack, Brian's friend is working in the ER too that day with a patient who is in the middle of a critical event and Brian's opinion is sought when nothing seems to be working. Brian's 'catch' of the true cause of the patient's symptoms earns him a job interview with BHI, but even more appealing, BHI is in the midst of a drug trial for Vasaclear, a treatment for heart disease that could render bypass surgery a thing of the past, and results thus far tout it as a miracle drug. Knowing his father's reluctance for another surgery, Brian hopes that getting on the staff at BHI could also earn his father a spot in the drug trial, especially when he learns that the job opening includes monitoring of patients in the trial.
However, as Brian begins seeing patients at the Vasaclear clinic, the results aren't as wonderful as he was led to believe, yet all efforts to try to piece what he's seeing together with the patient histories gets thwarted. He knows he is on thin ice to begin with because of his drug history, and not only would his job be in jeopardy, but also any chance of getting Jack on Vasaclear, but he just can't silence the feeling that things aren't all they seem. Meanwhile, there is pressure on BHI and the FDA to expedite the Vasaclear trials, because heart disease is the #1 killer in the country and every day the 'miracle drug' is not on shelves equals thousands of potentially preventable deaths.
Overall, I really enjoyed the book, and it's interesting reading the sections about the FDA and fast-tracking a new treatment, as we got a real-life experience of that this year with the COVID-19 vaccinations, though hopefully the vaccine rollout goes smoother than the Vasaclear one did.

[Corielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

As I believe I've mentioned before, my best friend in the whole wide world and I bonded initially over books in 6th grade. One of the things that she introduced me to was the concept of a medical thriller. She was a huge fan of Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, and Michael Cordy. In the years since I initially devoured those books en masse, I have revisited them occasionally -- and found myself to be disappointed pretty much every time. Not only at the writing of the books themselves, but also in my very bad taste at the time. But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop rereading them, especially since I keep finding them at garage sales for a quarter each.

This particular book, written sometime in the late 1990s (in fact, late enough that I don't think I've read this one before), stars a cardiologist named Brian Holbrook. He's trying to get his life back on track after a painkiller addiction derailed his marriage and his career. Meanwhile, his extremely stubborn father is suffering from heart disease. Holbrook gets a job at a hospital in Boston (it's always Boston), where a trial has started on new drug for cardiac patients. Determined to get his father on the trial, he breaks all sorts of rules (like, SO CASUALLY), and in the process discovers a deep dark secret about the drug itself (of course).

I will admit that the twist at the end of the story was pretty good -- that is, what Brian finds out is the real truth about this drug (not the betrayal -- the betrayal can be seen a mile away). But the characters are so poorly written. There's this one nurse who exists solely to press her breast up against Brian's upper arm. I think it happens three or four times. All of the women are incredibly gorgeous and also...kind of smart. It's the sort of book that you can plow through in a couple evenings (in fact, I read most of it in a waiting room at the doctor's office on Monday), shaking your head at the horribleness but unable to put it down.

[Alex of Yoe · Rating 3 out of 5]

So I've learned that medical thrillers are not my thing. I'm pretty squeamish when it comes to medical stuff, and while this wasn't too bad in that area, it was still uncomfortable at parts, especially in the detailed descriptions of medical procedures.

This book is about a cardiologist who lost everything to a drug addiction but gets a second chance working at an esteemed Boston heart institute. While there, he learns about a miracle drug that could instantly unclog arteries, but then gains subtle clues about a cover-up just as the drug is about to be approved for public use. It's a mystery that soon turns into a fast paced run-for-your-life story!

The book was ok. The characters were fairly one dimensional. The romance was poorly written. I wasn't sure how realistic parts of it were, and the technology is definitely dated. But after about halfway it got very action-packed (though the stock villains had me groaning), and the twist at the end did surprise me! I'm interested in how much of this is based off a typical doctor experience especially in the experimental drug and FDA category. Since the author is a doctor, it could have some basis in fact. Overall, it's not a bad book, but it's not stellar.

Mild-language and mild sexual themes throughout. I'm not a mystery fan or a thriller fan and medical things make me squeamish, so this was bound to disappoint. Still, an easy read and an intriguing plot. If you like these sorts of books, you'll probably like this one. It's just not for me.

[Ricardo García Sánchez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mi nota es un 6,5/10.
Muerte súbita de Michael Palmer es un thriller médico que sigue la tradición de novelas cargadas de tensión, intriga y giros inesperados, pero que en mi opinión, no llega a destacar por completo dentro del género. Si bien la trama tiene un enfoque atractivo —explorando los peligros ocultos del mundo médico y los dilemas éticos que rodean el uso de tecnología experimental— la ejecución deja algunos aspectos que me impidieron disfrutarlo plenamente.

La historia sigue a un cardiólogo que se ve envuelto en un oscuro entramado de corrupción médica y conspiración, lo que en principio suena prometedor. El autor, siendo médico, logra transmitir con mucha precisión y detalle los procedimientos clínicos y el ambiente hospitalario, lo que es sin duda uno de los puntos fuertes del libro. La autenticidad de las escenas médicas es innegable y agrega un nivel de realismo a la trama.
La trama es entretenida y consigue mantener el interés durante la mayor parte del libro, pero algunos giros se sienten algo forzados o demasiado previsibles, lo que resta un poco de la tensión que se supone debería haber en este tipo de novela. Además, algunas de las situaciones al final me parecieron un tanto inverosímiles, lo que me sacó un poco de la inmersión.

En resumen, Muerte súbita es una novela entretenida y con una premisa sólida, pero no sobresale dentro de su género. Ofrece una lectura rápida y con momentos emocionantes, pero no es el tipo de libro que se quede contigo después de pasar la última página.

[Socrate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deşi era sleită de puteri, Sylvia Vitorelli reuşi să mai împingă şi a treia pernă la spate. Acum stătea aproape drept pe pat. Şi totuşi se simţea rău în continuare, se sufoca. Probabil din cauza igrasiei şi a mucegaiului, îşi spuse ea. Dacă ar fi acum în apartamentul ei din Boston şi nu la ferma fiului său situată în zona rurală a New York-ului, nimic din toate astea nu i s-ar întâmpla. Nu că respiraţia ei ar fi fost mai uşoară în Boston. De luni de zile avea gleznele şi degetele de la mâini teribil de umflate. Iar acum, în ultimele săptămâni, începuse să aibă probleme cu respiraţia, nemaiputând să tragă aer în piept, în special când stătea culcată. Sylvia înjură încet. N-ar fi trebuit să fie niciodată de acord cu venirea ei la Fullbrook. Ar fi trebuit să-i spună lui Ricky că nu se simte în stare. Dar voia neapărat să vină aici. Spiritul soţului său, Angelo, întrista atmosfera apartamentului în care locuiseră. Iar praful şi zgomotul făcut de şantierul de pe artera principală a Bostonului transformase cartierul lor din North End într-un loc nu tocmai plăcut. În plus, chiar nora ei, care se comportase întotdeauna de parcă vizitele ei ar fi picat prost, sunase şi o invitase să petreacă departe de oraş vreo două săptămâni. Copiii întreabă de tine tot timpul, mamă, spusese ea. Iar toamna este atât de frumoasă pe la noi.

[Megr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Palmer is a fun medical fiction writer! I love the intricate detail of his novels. The storyline is so/so, but he keeps it interesting throughout. Down on his luck (b/c of a recently kicked opioid addiction) Dr. Brian Holbrook has stumbled on a chance at redemption wrapped in a mysterious set of circumstances surrounding a brand new potentially life-saving drug. The drug, Vasclear, has hopes of erasing years of cardiac buildup that generally is the cause of heart disease. As Brian is looking into the benefits for his dying father, he starts to see anomalies in the records of Vasclear and begins his own investigation which puts him and everyone he cares for in increasing danger. Not everyone makes it out of this story alive.
Palmer keeps the intensity up and action exciting until the end. A very short, but sweet epilogue wraps up the main stories in a satisfying bow.
Definitely recommend to medical, murder-mystery fans.

[Crosby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Palmer’s background as a well respected physician lends credence to his medical related novels. The Miracle Cure covers a wide range of medical procedures including lab testing, imaging technology, open heart surgery, emergency medicine, etc as it weaves a tale about the latest miracle medication about to be approved by the government for use in clearing veins and arteries of life threatening plaque. One junior physician starts to suspect that not all the evidence supporting its approval is above board. He begins to investigate and very quickly is enmeshed in a web of secrecy, deceit and ultimately violence. The chapters are numerous and short yet each comes with new reasons to keep turning pages. It is a good medical action story that does not pretend to be classic literature. Good entertainment with enough little unexpected turns to keep a reader interested as to the outcome.

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had this book in a cupboard for ages. I heard that it was a good book, and kept putting off reading it. I had read another book by the same author in the past, so I had an idea of what the book would be like. Overall, it was a good book, good story, good idea. My issue with the book is that the first two-thirds, almost, was just a lot of information readers don’t need to know in all the details. I felt it just dragged. At one point, I thought about stopping it, as it wasn’t really a thriller as much as it was a medical story. Eventually, after sticking through the slow parts, it did speed up and the ending was good.

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

EXCELLENT READ! Michael Palmer never disappoints. His books are thrilling, tense, unpredictable, and riveting. Our hero is Dr. Brian Holbrook, a recovering pain killer addict who was at the right place at the right time to save a cardiac patient in the emergency room at the same time as his father was in the emergency room. Dr. Holbrook is soon offered a position at the famous Boston Heart Institute in its medical testing team. It doesn't take long before Dr. Holbrook suspects the miracle drug being tested isn't quite what it is being promoted to be. Add big pharmacy, mafia, bribery, and you've got a great good versus evil story.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow!!
Brian Holbrook ex-quarterback gets a second chance to be a cardiologist. He begins working on a drug trial and quickly realized things are amiss.

This is my first Michael Palmer book and I loved it. I can’t wait to read another one. Though it was written over 20 years ago, it slides perfectly into today.

I enjoyed the main character, I’m sad that he isn’t featured in any other books. I enjoyed the medical field information and the mix of action thriller. I cannot wait to start another one of his books.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Miracle Cure focuses on a drug called Vasclear, coming up for FDA approval, which supposedly reverses the effects of arteriosclerosis. However, Dr. Brian Holbrook, cardiologist at Boston Heart Institute, is becoming skeptical of the trial results when some of the initial patients die violent deaths.

(I did not anticipate the surprise twist in Epilogue Two.)

Dr. Palmer specialized in writing intricately plotted medical thrillers. I've read several, and so far they have all garnered four- or five-star ratings.

[Iina Allonen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boomer-kirjallisuutta. Huono käännös tai onneton lähtöteksti; kirjoitustyyli on kiusallisen huono ja vaivaannuttava. Paikoin teksti kulkee luontevasti, mutta suurimman osan aikaa homma on amerikkalaisen tervan juontia. Leikkausasiat selostetaan tarkasti, mutta siihen kirjan hyvinkirjoitetut osat sitten melkein rajautuvatkin.

Juoni on sentään ansioitunut vaikkakin ennalta-arvattava. Vihjeitä annetaan kunnon salapoliisiromaanin tavoin pitkin kirjaa, joten suurin osa lukijoista voi varmasti onnitella itseään ns.lopun lähestyessä.

[Sandi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I fully realize this book was published almost 20 years ago. The fact is, it was on my shelf and I had never read it before last week. I pulled out the battered paperback and started reading.

OK - you can tell its dated. The good guy is in trouble and he doesn't reach for his trusty cell phone! I'll give you that up front. But a good story is a good story, regardless of how old it may be. I truly enjoyed the book and I'm glad I finally read it.

[Ali Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gut Instinct Rating: 4
Characters: 4
Believability: 5
Uniqueness: 4
Writing Style: 5
Excitement Factor: 4
Story Line: 5
Title Relevance: 5
Artwork Relevance: 4
Audiobook Narration: 4.25
Overall: 4.43🏳️‍🌈
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CW: Crime Story Line, Hospital Story Line,
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Review: This one wasn’t as great as some of his other books have been. It was still enjoyable and entertaining, but just not an overwhelmingly great read.

[Angel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got interested in Palmer's books a few weeks back when I picked up Resistant; Miracle Cure, although anachronistically placed in my Palmer journey, definitely did not disappoint. His raw depiction of the MD life (albeit with far more political drama) just is beautifully executed. This is action done right, and the science he adds in elevates his writing far beyond your normal crime thriller.