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Violence
Some
Medical procedures and hospital violence; a conspiracy with real victims; some deaths
Language
Barely any
Clean language; medical and procedural prose
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The paranoia of discovering that the institution meant to heal you is doing something else; sustained institutional dread
What this book is about
Medical student Susan Wheeler becomes suspicious when a series of healthy patients at her hospital slip into comas during routine procedures—and her investigation leads her toward a conspiracy that puts her own life at risk. Robin Cook's debut thriller invented the medical thriller genre and remains the template for everything that followed.
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