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Coma is the breakthrough novel from author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.
It began with two patients undergoing routine 'minor surgery' in Boston's greatest hospital 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.
They never regained consciousness.
Up against the scorn of the medics and the hostility of the establishment, one girl medical student starts to probe the coma cases, steadily uncovering something unbelievably hideous . . .
It began with two patients undergoing routine 'minor surgery' in Boston's greatest hospital 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.
They never regained consciousness.
Up against the scorn of the medics and the hostility of the establishment, one girl medical student starts to probe the coma cases, steadily uncovering something unbelievably hideous . . .
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4.1
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Venkataswamy Harish
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December 6, 2016
Best medical thriller. I would love to read quite often
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Dr. SUNIL JADHAV
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September 7, 2014
One the best from Robin Cook
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Rafael Moreno Esteban
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August 17, 2018
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About the author
Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word ‘medical’ to the thriller genre and, decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Robin Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce more than thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak, Terminal and Contagion.
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