Five Patients
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 239pp. Early Book Club Edition printing. from front flap: "Five patients, five actual cases of men and women in urgent need of medical help rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital in the past year--To witness their treatment, to see how hospital practice is changing in the age of the science-technology explosion, the reader is taken into Mass. General, into the receiving room, into the emergency ward, into the operating theater, on surgical rounds, into private rooms and wards, as every kind of diagnostic or therapeutic equipment is put into action, as residents, interns, and senior staff diagnose, consult with each other, prescribe, and treat the cases of: RALPH ORLANDO [. . .] JOHN O'CONNOR [. . .] PETER LUCHESI [. . .] SLYVIA THOMPSON [. . .] EDITH MURPHY"
Crichton's first book under his own name. very good: name on FFEP, else clean, tight, square. top edge text block grey stain / very good: shelf/age wear, NOT clipped. Item #1048
#01124.
Price: $10.00