She and four other students take rounds in surgery rooms and ICUs, recording post-treatment notations on the patients' health. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student at Boston Memorial Hospital. Coma was preceded in 1973 by Cook's lesser-known novel Year of the Intern. The characters and story are well-written and you feel for Brian throughout the story and the plight he goes through.Coma is Robin Cook's first commercially successful novel, published by Signet Book in 1977. It incorporates not only COVID but the whole US health care system, which needs a major overhaul to help out every American citizen.
“I love Robin Cook novels and this one is another good one. I enjoyed it and am eager to read another of Cook’s novels.”- Mystery and Suspense
"Well thought-out and the characters are interesting and relatable. But to get to the bottom of the predatory practices targeting his loved ones and countless others, he must uncover the dark side of an industry that has strayed drastically from its altruistic roots-and bring down the callous executives preying on the sick and defenseless before the virus can claim even more people . . . Forced to choose between the ongoing care of family and bills he can never pay, and furious at a shockingly indifferent healthcare system, Brian vows to seek justice. To add insult to injury, his health insurance company refuses to cover any of the cost, citing dubious clauses in Brian’s policy. Complicating the situation further, Brian and Emma’s young daughter then begins to exhibit alarming physical and behavioral symptoms, too.Įmma’s harrowing hospital stay becomes even more fraught when Brian receives a staggering hospital bill full of outrageous charges and murky language.
At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease seemingly caught during one of their evening cookouts. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. In this electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook, a family’s exposure to a rare yet deadly virus ensnares them in a growing danger to mankind-and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by profit and greed.
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