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rslade
Dec 08, 2011
Cook's works are very decent thrillers, with the added bonus of his medical knowledge. The writing and plotting is quite decent even without the technical accuracy. His characters tend to be fairly stock, but are also reasonably detailed and complex (although often rather contradictory). This book addresses two very interesting medical themes. The first is that of medical tourism. Some of the risk factors; the siphoning off of health money to "hospitals" that only deal with "high margin" procedures, and have no resources to deal with bad outcomes; are described peripherally to the plot. The book also looks at the money involved in (US) health insurance and health management companies, and the lengths people are willing to go to in order to protect that wealth.