| View Larger Image | Mortality Rate | Paperbackby Jack Chase (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Signet | | Page Count: | 384 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 01, 1997 | | Sales Rank: | 1,972,705st |
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Product Description
A young medical student notices that an exceptionally high number of terminally ill patients are dying of strikingly similar causes at the university hospital. When he launches his own investigation, he quickly finds his own credibility under fire--and his list of suspects growing. With a web of violence closing in around him, he must race to uncover the truth before his own life ends prematurely. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 3 reviews)
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Interesting Medical Thriller by A. Vegan (Ontario Canada)  3 Stars
January 16, 2004
A young medical student notices that an excessively high number of terminally ill patients are dying of exceedingly similar causes at the University hospital. When he starts his own investigation, he quickly finds his credibility under fire and his list of suspects growing. With a web of violence closing in around him, he must race to uncover the truth before his own life ends prematurely. This wasn't a great medical thriller but it wasn't a bad book either.
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Pretty Good! by Tracy Shapiro (Burke, VA USA)  4 Stars
June 01, 2003
Not quite up there with Michael Palmer and Robin Cook but definitely in the style and enjoyable for lovers of medical thrillers like myself!
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Good thriller 4 Stars
September 03, 1997
It is an honor for six medical students to be allowed to participate
in Professor Arthur Law's twice monthly ethics seminar. At each session, a
student discusses a case that he is involved with that either the cost in
resources or time questions keeping the patient alive. The students debate
the ethics surrounding each case and seek a consensus on how to resolve the
debate. One of the attending students is Mac McCall, who slowly concludes
that being a subject of these discussions might be hazardous to the life of
the individual.
Mac has noticed that every recent patient discussed has died. he
wonders if one of the group members is behind the sudden rash of deaths.
When one of his peers, who was investigating the deaths, dies from an
apparent suicide, Mac believes that a deliberate killer is on the loose.
When someone tries to run him down, Mac knows beyond a shadow of doubt that
his suspicions are real and he better do something about them if he wants
to stay alive long enough to graduate.
Fans of medical thrillers will want to read Jack Chase's MORTALITY
RATE. Although it is obvious from the beginning what is happening to the
patients, it is the who and how that makes the novel extremely interesting.
The answers are very frightening at what could potentially occur at a
hospital as Mr. Chase gets the audience to question the ethics and
practices of the medical establishment.
Harriet Klausner
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