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The Second Opinion (Hardcover)

By: Michael Palmer (Author)


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"Michael Palmer has become a master of the medical thriller....THE SECOND OPINION is briskly paced, providing just enough suspense to keep readers happily turning the pages."

"The novel is not merely a thriller but also an exploration of its central character's unique gifts...Another winner from a consistently fine writer."

Publisher's note

Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated internal medicine specialists in the world, and the founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston's sprawling, powerful Beaumont Clinic.

Thea's rewarding life in Africa is turned upside-down when Petros is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver. He is in the Beaumont ICU, in a deep coma. No one thinks he will survive. Thea must return home. Two of Petros' other children, both physicians, battle Thea and her eccentric brother, Dimitri, by demanding that treatment for their father be withheld.

As Thea uncovers the facts surrounding the disaster, it seems more and more to be no accident. Petros, himself, is the only witness. Who would want him dead? The answers are trapped in his brain . . . until he looks at Thea and begins slowly to blink a terrifying message.

In "The Second Opinion," Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test. With sympathetic characters and twists and betrayals that come from the most unlikely places, "The Second Opinion" will make you question...everything.

Possessing a brilliant mind for medicine in spite of her inability to comprehend the interpersonal conflicts and money-driven dynamics of traditional medicine, Asperger's patient and doctor Thea Sperelakis is baffled when her siblings refuse care to their hit-and-run victim father, whom Thea gradually realizes was deliberately targeted. 250,000 first printing.

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Michael Palmer constructs his medical thriller around his heroine, Dr. Thea Sperelakis, a brilliant, mildly obsessive, and rather socially klutzy woman with Asperger's syndrome. But when her father is critically injured in an accident--one that quickly begins to seem suspiciously intentional and connected to other recent deaths--Thea must rally against uncooperative siblings and conspiratorial doctors to save her father's life and prevent further violence.



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