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Holiday Reads


© Michael Woo-Ming

Well, even during my third year of residency, you do get some time off. I am currently starting my Christmas vacation, and one of the great things I like doing is curling up with a good book. In keeping with the theme of this topic, I have selected some good medical thrillers. So in between reading Harrison's Internal Medicine (yeah, right!) here's some exciting novels by authors I've enjoyed. Check out Amazon.com for where to purchase.

Robin Cook is perhaps the inventor of the medical book genre. Coma and Outbreak are just a few of his classics. Although some may argue he may have slipped with his latest reads, he is still one of the masters of the physician turned author.

Psychologic thrillers are usually great, but sometimes difficult to convey on paper, and Jonathan Kellerman has put out some great ones. I've enjoyed Bad Love and the Clinic. Survival of the Fittest is his most recent best seller. Can't get enough of Dr. Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis!

I'm just halfway through "All That Remains", but so far I'm hooked. Go to the unofficial Patricia Cornwell Web Site for more info and the author and the beloved Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

Michael Palmer wrote Desperate Measures that starred Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman. Try Critical Judgment, a story about an ER doc in a small rural town that is as not what it seems.

Don't forget about Michael Crichton, Leonard Goldberg, and Tess Gerritsen among others! Happy Holidays!

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