When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who works continuously in the service of others, he endured grueling years of training and is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time with each one just to keep his office door open, he now provides the kind of medical care he is trained to do, lavishing twenty-four-hour availability and personalized attention on his handpicked patients. And at last, he is earning a significant income, no longer burdened by falling reimbursements from insurance companies.But this idyllic practice comes to a grinding halt one sunny afternoon-and gets much, much worse. Enter Dr. Jack Stapleton, a medical examiner in New York City and Bowman's brother-in-law: Jack's sister Alexis-now Craig's estranged wife-tearfully begs for his help as her husband's trial drags on. Jack agrees to travel to Boston to offer his forensic services and expert witness experience to Craig's beleaguered defense attorney. But when Jack's irreverent suggestion to exhume the corpse to disprove the alleged malpractice is taken seriously, he opens a Pandora's box of trouble. As Craig Bowman's life and career are put on the line, Jack is on the verge of making a most unwelcome discovery of tremendous legal and medical significance-and there are people who will do anything to keep him from learning the truth.
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Robin Cook
Médico e escritor, Robin Cook é largamente creditado como o introdutor do termo 'médico' como um gênero literário. Por isso, 20 anos depois do lançamento de seu primeiro livro, "Coma", ele continua a dominar a categoria que ele mesmo criou. Cook combinou com sucesso fatos médicos com fantasia para produzir uma sucessão de 'Best Sellers' do "The New York Times", incluindo: Mutação (1989), Sinais Vitais (1991), Cego (1992), Terminal (1993), Cura Fatal (1994), Contágio (1996), Cromossomo 6 (1997) e Toxina (1998). Em cada uma de suas obras, Robin Cook busca escrever sobre os bastidores da prática médica atual. Explorou, entre outras coisas, a doação de órgãos, engenharia genética, a fecundação in vitro, pesquisas sobre drogas e transplantes de órgãos. Em "Vetor", Cook explora um tema mui
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