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Fatal Cure
Fatal Cure
Author: Robin Cook
With its state-of-the-art facility and peaceful Vermont setting, the Bartlet Community Hospital offered Drs. Angela and David Wilson a chance to work within an enlightened system of "managed care" and a perfect place to raise their daughter. Their dreams turn to nightmares when one by one, their patients inexplicably begin to die. — The most cont...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780399138799
ISBN-10: 039913879X
Publication Date: 1/12/1994
Pages: 447
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 63 ratings
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Readnmachine avatar reviewed Fatal Cure on + 1477 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Cook's medical thriller genre mires down in this offering as the author repeatedly drags in his soapbox to lecture the reader about the evils of managed care. There's a pretty good story here, but Cook won't get out of his own way and let it unfold. (He also needs to hire a copy editor who knows the difference between a shotgun and a rifle.)
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Helpful Score: 2
Very frightening book about the world of HMOs. Slow start, but picked up halfway through and went screechingly fast at the end.
roarlady avatar reviewed Fatal Cure on + 24 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Cook, bestselling medical suspense author does it again...healthcare reform, murder and deadly irradiation combine to propel you along the gruesome corridors of a community hospital with a horrific twist.
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Hard book to put down
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I am a huge Cook fan so I held out and made it through the beginning which was very slow. After that the plot does pick up pace but the characters are not well developed but overall the book was well written and it made for an easy read.
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A medical thriller about managed care
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Fatal Cure is Robin Cook's most controversial book ever written about the darker side of managed health care in America. A married couple start a hospital business where they can treat several patients in a day, including their daughter who suffers from crystic fibrosis. For awhile, it works until their patients begin to die and when a dead body is discovered is their basement, they begin to lose popularity. A very suspensful book, this could actually happen. Overall, a good book!
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I am a huge Cook fan so I held out and made it through the beginning which was very slow. After that the plot does pick up pace but the characters are not well developed but overall the book was well written and it made for an easy read.
jane1959 avatar reviewed Fatal Cure on + 24 more book reviews
With the state-of-art facility and peaceful Vermont setting, the Bartlet Community Hospital seems like a dream come true. It offered doctors David and Angela Wilson new career opportunities, a chance to work within an enlightened system of "managed care"- and a perfect place to raise their daughter, who suffers from cystic fibrosis. But then, one by one, their dreams turned to nightmares. And day by day, their patients begin to die.


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