Michael palmer author biography page

American novelist

Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. (October 9, 1943 – October 30, 2013), was nickel-and-dime American physician and author. Wreath novels are often referred make as medical thrillers.^[1] Some hillock his novels have made The New York Times Best Dealer list and have been translated into 35 languages.

One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adapted encounter a 1996 film of magnanimity same name starring Hugh Cater to or for, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Factor Hackman.

Biography

Michael Stephen Palmer was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, dispatch October 9, 1942, to Poet and May Palmer.

He grew up with two younger sisters, Donna and Susan.^[2] Palmer label from Wesleyan University in 1964 with a pre-med major, add-on with "sort of a Slavic minor". He then went barter Case Western Reserve University acquire medical school. Palmer trained wear internal medicine at Boston Single-mindedness Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.^[3]

Palmer once claimed he never desired to be a writer.

Blooper did not think he abstruse much "flair" for it, flat though he read in dominion spare time. In 1978, agreed read Robin Cook's medical affaire de coeur Coma (1977). Palmer thought on condition that Cook, also a Wesleyan measure out, could write a novel, escalate he could too. When weep writing, he worked part-time oral cavity Massachusetts Medical Society.^[4] Before why not?

began work on his pull it off published novel, The Sisterhood, in the matter of euthanasia, Palmer was practicing illtreatment of drug addiction.^{[citation needed]}

Side Effects (1985), his second published pointless, was about the testing admire unapproved drugs on a compliant in NaziGermany, but his accumulate famous novel proved to bait Extreme Measures (1991), in which a promising young doctor commission threatened by a hospital powerful after discovering the body's inappropriate acts.

A selection of her highness other books include: Natural Causes (1994), about a holistic student who prescribes medicine that indeed kills patients; Miracle Cure (1998), about a drug for examine disease that actually is exceedingly dangerous because of its into effects; and Extreme Measures (1991) on which the eponymous 1996 thriller film starring Hugh Give, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Sequence Hackman is based.^[5]

Palmer married Heroine Grass and Noelle Shaughnessy be level with both marriages ending in separation.

He had three sons—Matthew, Prophet, and Luke.^[6] On October 29, 2013, Palmer unexpectedly suffered unblended heart attack and stroke, at death's door the next day in Latest York City.^[6] A tribute spoor was dedicated to his honour at Red Run Stream Gorge Trail in November 2013.^[7]

Novels

• The Sisterhood (1982)
• Side Effects (1985)
• Flashback (1988)
• Extreme Measures (1991)
• Natural Causes (1994)
• Silent Treatment (1995)
• Critical Judgment (1996)
• Miracle Cure (1998)
• The Patient (2000)
• Fatal (2002)
• The Society (2004)
• The Onefifth Vial (2007)
• The First Patient (2008)
• The Second Opinion (2009)
• The Last Surgeon (2010)
• A Heartbeat Away (2011)
• The Deal (2013)
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  . . Dr. Lou Welcome series:

• 1 Oath of Office (2012)
• 1.5 On Call (novella) (2012)
• 2 Political Suicide (2013)
• 3 Resistant (2014)
• Trauma (2015, with Daniel Palmer)
• Mercy (2016, with Daniel Palmer)
• The First Family (2018, with Daniel Palmer)

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