Coma
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4.3 • 48 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
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. They never woke up.
Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. 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.
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. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?
Customer Reviews
Great medical thriller
The story took a while to develop but it launched into some great suspense. Sometimes you felt as though most of the characters were so naive. How could they not think of a motive or reason for what is happening? Though it’s full of antiquated feminism vs. chauvinism ideologues it was still a thrilling novel.
Wish I hadn’t spent the money.
My daughters 10 yr old friend was a “deceased donor”. My husband received a kidney from a deceased donor. For different reasons our children could not donate. The movie “Coma” was actually pretty good. The book was very confusing..and not very realistic. July 2022
Quite possibly the creepiest medical thriller ever written!
WOW!!! I wanted to read this book because I was a huge fan of the movie! I still love the movie, but it barely does this exceptional book justice! Suspenseful, exciting, and too scary to imagine! It’s ridiculously easy to see why this book became such a gigantic classic, one that immediately established Robin Cook as a master of suspense!