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Disease Books > Coma > Item 6
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COMA
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Hardcover
by Robin Cook
Sales Rank: 404780
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$54.38
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on 11-20-2011.
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Features
Mass Market Paperback: 381 pages
Publisher: Signet; 25 Anv edition November 5, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451207394
ISBN-13: 978-0451207395
Product Dimensions:
6.8 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
The book "Coma" by Robin Cook is about four medical students entering the freighting world of medicine. The time is February of 1976. Three of the medical students are male and one is female. During this time it was very hard for a female to succeed as a doctor. It is even harder for Dr. Susan Wheeler to succeed when she uncovers a horrifying deception. The deception she uncovers is that a select group of senior doctors at Memorial Hospital are taking patients into minor surgery and making sure they do not ever wake up. The patients are not dead; they are in a comatose state. Susan discovers they are harvesting the patients' body parts. She is out to uncover the truth even if it means risking her own life. "Coma" is very well-written. It has a lot of great description of the characters and their surroundings. The author also gave very vivid description to the operations and procedures performed in a hospital atmosphere. Although the book was very well-written and the author did a great job of putting the reader in the scene, to read this book one must have a fair amount of learned medical terminology. The author uses a lot of very highly technical medical terms, which makes the reading very hard if one is not sure what is going on. Other than this the book is very suspenseful and great reading.
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COMA
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Price: $54.38
Updated on 11-20-2011.
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