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Michael Palmer – An Introduction

Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. was born October 9, 1942, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is the author of 13 novels, often called the Medical thrillers series. He graduated from Wesleyan University and trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts...

Michael Palmer – The First Patient

Michael Palmer wears two hats – bestelling author and doctor (he is associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program).  While a premed major at Wesleyan University, he got a “G” on his first freshman English...

Michael Palmer – The Second Opinion

(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 8 ) In this routine medical thriller from bestseller Palmer (The First Patient), Dr. Thea Sperelakis, an idealist who’s been working for Doctors Without Borders in the Congo, rushes back to Boston after learning her physician...