Description In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career...
He lived in eastern Massachusetts..
In addition to his writing, Palmer was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency.
He spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine.
He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals.
Palmer earned his bachelor\'s degree at Wesleyan University, and he attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University.
His books have been translated into thirty-five languages.
His book Extreme Measures was adapted into a movie starring Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman.
Three seemingly disconnected lives, surging unrelentingly toward one another-- and linked forever by THE Fifth Vial About the author Michael Palmer (1942-2013) wrote internationally bestselling novels of medical suspense, including The First Patient , The Second Opinion , The Last Surgeon , A Heartbeat Away , Oath of Office and Political Suicide .
In Chicago, a disillusioned detective is hired to determine the identity of a John Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body.
In a hospital four thousand miles away, a reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives--and bring others inestimable wealth...
Description In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career..
