Fatal Cure

by Robin Cook

Book Overview

Public health care is one of the most important issues in America today. Now Robin Cook, the bestselling master of medical suspense, confronts this controversial subject with an all-too-possible... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425145638
• ISBN13: 9780425145630
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Good and Silly Suspenseful

Some of the actions of the characters are ridiculous. The book was also predictable, I found myself wanting to write "duh" in the margin and "why????".

Fatal Cure- A Long Book But A Quick Read

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!

absorbing thriller

Dr David Wilson and his wife Angela Wilson(also a doctor) seek employment at Bartlet Community Hospital,Bartlet desiring to live a quiet and peaceful life in the countryside away from the hustle and bustle of Boston only to find out later that Bartlet is not the mini-heaven they had made it out to be.For Bartlet Community Hospital is a place where people are actually killed by radiation ! This time Cook has truely constructed a horrifying piece of fiction which seems easily possible in reality,considering the technological progress made by this world.Gawd !! I would be real scared to be hospitalized after reading this book.

I loved this book!

This was the first book by Robin Cook I ever read. I have Cystic Fibrosis, so I was immediately drawn to that as part of the subject, and decided to give this "new" (to me) author a chance! I have enjoyed reading Robin Cook ever since, and I am now on Sphinx... which unfortunately is the last one unread for me! Hurry up and write more, Dr. Cook! :-)

Hauntingly possible

As a healthcare professional for nearly 28 years, I find Cook's portrayal of the modern day HMO very scary, yet real. I have seen what 'cost containment' can do in real life and this scenario is not beyond the realm of possibility. Cook keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the book. I could not put it down

Chilling insight of healthcare, reminds me of "1984".

As a healthcare professional, Robin Cook's books are chillingly realistic. Throughout the book I kept telling myself,"this could never happen". As we recall how bizarre and unrealistic George Orwell's "1984" seemed initially and now realize we are living very similar with little more than a nod of oddity.