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Angela Dawson, M.D., climb to the top was rough, but she returns to school to earn an MBA and starts a company, Angels Healthcare. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in New York City and plans for others, Angela's future looks very bright.Then a surge of drug-resist...

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Main Author:	Cook, Robin, 1940-
Format:	Books Print Book Large Print
Language:	English
Published:	Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2007.
Series:	Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series ; 7.
Subjects:	Hospital administrators > Fiction. Nosocomial infections > Fiction. Staphylococcal infections > Fiction. Drug resistance in microorganisms > Fiction. Medical examiners (Law) > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. Medical fiction. Suspense fiction. Large print books.

Summary:	Angela Dawson, M.D., climb to the top was rough, but she returns to school to earn an MBA and starts a company, Angels Healthcare. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in New York City and plans for others, Angela's future looks very bright.Then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela's carefully constructed world.
Item Description:	"Thorndike Press large print basic."
Physical Description:	641 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780786294466 0786294469
Author Notes:	Robin (Robert William Arthur) Cook, the master of the medical thriller novel, was born to Edgar Lee Cook, a commercial artist and businessman, and Audrey (Koons) Cook on May 4, 1940, in New York City. Cook spent his childhood in Leonia, New Jersey, and decided to become a doctor after seeing a football injury at his high school. He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1962, his M.D. from Columbia University in 1966, and completed postgraduate training at Harvard before joining the U.S. Navy. Cook began his first novel, The Year of the Intern, while serving on a submarine, basing it on his experiences as a surgical resident. In 1979, Cook wed Barbara Ellen Mougin, on whom the character Denise Sanger in Brain is based. When Year of the Intern did not do particularly well, Cook began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. He decided to focus on suspenseful medical mysteries, mixing intricately plotted murder and intrigue with medical technology, as a way to bring controversial ethical and social issues affecting the medical profession to the attention of the general public. His subjects include organ transplants, genetic engineering, experimentation with fetal tissue, cancer research and treatment, and deadly viruses. Cook put this format to work very successfully in his next books, Coma and Sphinx, which not only became bestsellers, but were eventually adapted for film. Three others, Terminal, Mortal Fear, and Virus, and Cook's first science- fiction work, Invasion, have been television movies. In 2014 her title, Cell made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography)

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