Publication

1989-01-13 - Ballantine Books

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Physical Format

Mass Market Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100345354648
  • ISBN-139780345354648
  • Goodreads7681
  • Open LibraryOL9757980M

Description

ER is the most successful television series ever. Michael Chrichton created the series from his own experiences as a medical doctor in the emergency rooms and wards of Massachusetts General Hospital. Five Patients is Michael Chrichton’s true account of the real life dramas so vividly portrayed in ER. A construction worker is seriously injured in a scaffold collapse; a middle-aged dispatcher is brought in suffering from a fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck; a young man nearly severs his hand in an accident; an airline traveller suffers chest pains; a mother of three is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease.Written with the same honesty, suspense, technological detail and excitement that have made Jurassic Park and Airframe No.1 bestsellers worldwide, Five Patients is an unputdownable account of life as it really is in a hospital.

First Sentence

IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING, THE Massachussets General Hospital was notified by Harvard University that some students, at that time occupying a university building in protest of ROTC, might be brought to the hospital for treatment of injuries after their forcible removal from the building.

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