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ER has become the most succesful television series in the world since CHARLIE'S ANGELS. Michael Crichton created the series from his own experiences as a medical doctor in the emergency rooms, operating rooms and wards of Massachusetts General Hospital. FIVE PATIENTS is Michael Crichton's true account of the real life dramas so vividly portrayed in ER. A construction worker is seriously injured in a scaffold collapse- a middle-aged despatcher is brought in suffering from a fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck; a young man nearly severs his hand in an accident; an airline traveller suffers chest pains; a mother of three is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease.

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Crichton writes superbly * Chicago Tribune *

Young Dr. Crichton (of The Andromeda Strain) uses five patients as a quod erat demonstrandum of procedures at Massachusetts General Hospital and as a work-up of the profession in general - the latter being what these enzymatic annals of applied medicine are generally about. The patients include a construction worker with a heart arrest; a man with a fever of 108 who for thirty days defies diagnosis but not the cure which nature effects; a man with a dangling hand; a woman on whom the new Tele-Diagnosis technique is used; and a victim of lupus erythematosus. Via these, Dr. Crichton ranges easily over problems of hospital costs (doubled in the last decade) and the A.M.A.'s anomie; the trend in which a facility such as this must cope with more and more acute emergencies (65,000 go through the Emergency Ward in a year); the newer rapprochement of surgery and medicine dealing as they do with the same tissue; the ward teaching system (and the medical student): the traditional passivity in the field and the exigencies of change: etc., etc. His book. as sharply, excitingly written as you might expect, is the best elective reading since Intern. (Kirkus Reviews)

Michael Crichton writes about true stories of life in the emergency rooms of Massachusetts General Hospital: a contruction worker is seriously injured in a scaffolding collapse; a young man nearly severs his hand; and three other true-life stories. (Kirkus UK)

Crichton writes superbly .<p>-- Chicago Tribune

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Michael Crichton remains one of the most popular writers in the world, best known as the author of the global phenomenon Jurassic Park. He sold more than 250 million copies of his books worldwide, which have been translated into forty languages and adapted into fifteen films. He wrote a number of global bestsellers, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, Airframe, and The Great Train Robbery. His influence and creativity extended far beyond books –he was the creator of the landmark television series ER, which ran for fifteen seasons, won twenty-three Primetime Emmy Awards, and received 124 Emmy nominations. He cowrote the screenplays of Jurassic Park and Twister and wrote and directed the film Westworld, which served as the basis for the HBO series. Crichton is the only writer in history to have a number one book, film, and television series at the same time, and he did it twice.

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