His books have been bestsellers on the 'New York Times' Bestseller List with several at #1.

He is best known for being the author who created the medical-thriller genre by combining medical writing with the thriller genre of writing.

Robin Cook (born in New York City, New York) is an American doctor / novelist who writes about medicine, biotechnology, and topics affecting public health. Librarian Note: Not to be confused with British novelist Robin Cook a pseudonym of Robert William Arthur Cook.ĭr. Is she a participant in-or a victim of-a large-scale black market dealing in human organs? Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. They called it 'minor surgery,' but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others-all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures-were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. Urn:oclc:433383613 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120204061314 Scanner blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre-the medical thriller-is now available in trade paperback for the first time.

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Coma by robin cook