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Thriller · 2002 · PG-13

Do No Harm

by Gregg Hurwitz

The surgeon had a choice. Neither option was good.

Dr. David Spier, head of the ER at the UCLA Medical Center, is caught in a media frenzy when the man who assaulted two of Spier's colleagues becomes a patient.

For14+GenreThrillerLength384 pagesRead time~10 hours

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Violence

Some

Moderate; thriller violence with medical context

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

None

No sexual content

Substance Use

Barely any

Mild substance context; medical setting

Emotional Intensity

Some

Moderate; the impossible choices at the heart of the thriller

What this book is about

Gregg Hurwitz's standalone thriller follows Dr. David Spier — a trauma surgeon whose family is threatened by a man who forces him to choose between his medical oath and his loved ones. Hurwitz creates the kind of high-stakes moral thriller that works best when the protagonist is someone who could not ordinarily fight back, and has built a trap that closes around the reader and the doctor simultaneously.

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