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Surgeon Marcus Ford's trauma unit at the Willowbrook Medical Center is on the front line, fighting diseases that rage through South Central, L.A.'s violent, poverty-stricken inner city. But suddenly Ford finds himself battling an insidious new enemy. Patients brought in to the emergency room begin to develop routine infections, which suddenly bloom out of control. None of the drugs in the vast arsenal of modern medicine can check the symptoms...or prevent the bacteria from multiplying. As more and more cases appear, and infected patients throughout L.A. start to die, Ford knows he is witnessing the onset of a mass epidemic--a modern-day plague. Then the horror strikes home. Ford's thirteen-year-old daughter contracts the life-threatening infection. Her only hope of survival is Omega, a radical, genetically engineered antibiotic that is only rumored to exist. As Ford's search for the phantom drug becomes a frantic race against time, his sole ally is Helen Wray, a pharmaceutical executive who wants to find Omega for reasons of her own. But when Ford becomes a prime suspect in a series of suspicious deaths, he realizes that he can trust no one...not his fellow doctors, not a government seeking to regulate the use of antibiotics, not even the enigmatic Helen. Caught in the middle of a war where powerful men play God and greed can determine who lives and who dies, Ford knows that the only way to save his daughter--and countless others--is to take on the health-care industry itself. What he uncovers is more horrifying than he could ever have imagined. Meticulously researched, unrelentingly suspenseful, bestselling author Patrick Lynch gives us a gripping and unsettling medical thriller that brings our most frightening health care nightmares as close as tomorrow's headlines. Highlights of Campbell Scott's career include the films The Sheltering Sky, Dead Again, Singles, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Big Night, which he co-directed, and Daytrippers. He has also starred on Broadway in an acclaimed production of Long Day's Journey Into Night. He can also be heard on the audio production of The Burning Man, also available on BDD Audiocassette.… (meer)
Omega is a medical thriller and like most medical thrillers there is a lot of medical jargon. It uses words like sternocleidomastoid and cricothyroidotomy and I have no idea what they mean. But that doesn’t matter. You can always understand the context well enough. Some of the terms and procedures are even explained for you right in the text which I found rather interesting. Marcus Ford turns into a bit of a tragic figure. When things start to go wrong for him they go wrong in a big way. You feel bad for him as he gets blamed for things that are beyond his control and his whole world seems to be falling apart and you want things to turn around for him but you know that they won’t and you wait with anticipation for the next horrible tragedy. You can understand his disbelief, outrage and helplessness as people die and no one will listen to him or let him help and the answers stay just out of his reach. Lynch does a great job of making the reader feel the desperation, fear, and urgency as things start to spiral out of control. It all starts out so small and builds until you can imagine it having disastrous and far reaching consequences. The story pulls you along as you follow Marcus as time and all his options run out. He doesn’t know who to trust, where to turn, what to do, or even what is right. It is suspenseful, engrossing, fast paced and an entertaining read. ( )
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If we go on abusing antibiotics as we now do, we are faced with a return to a medical dark age, in which antibiotics no longer work against a vast range of infections, some created by antibiotics, some perhaps epidemic and deadly... Idealists who seek to alert us to the damage done are opposed by an unholy alliance of those who supply and those who demand. -- Professor Graham Dukes, Professor of Drug Policy Studies, University of Groningen
The global pharmaceuticals business is worth at least $270 billion a year. -- Vikram Sahu, Credit Suisse First Boston
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
This book is dedicated to the staff of the King/Drew Medical Center in South Central Los Angeles.
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Dzilla was at the corner of La Salle and Florence reading his mail-order catalogue when he saw the Shark coming along the heat-buckled sidewalk, a package under his left arm.
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Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
One year after the interview was published, the first Ribomax clones became available over-the-counter from unlicensed traders in Shanghai and Hangzhou...
Surgeon Marcus Ford's trauma unit at the Willowbrook Medical Center is on the front line, fighting diseases that rage through South Central, L.A.'s violent, poverty-stricken inner city. But suddenly Ford finds himself battling an insidious new enemy. Patients brought in to the emergency room begin to develop routine infections, which suddenly bloom out of control. None of the drugs in the vast arsenal of modern medicine can check the symptoms...or prevent the bacteria from multiplying. As more and more cases appear, and infected patients throughout L.A. start to die, Ford knows he is witnessing the onset of a mass epidemic--a modern-day plague. Then the horror strikes home. Ford's thirteen-year-old daughter contracts the life-threatening infection. Her only hope of survival is Omega, a radical, genetically engineered antibiotic that is only rumored to exist. As Ford's search for the phantom drug becomes a frantic race against time, his sole ally is Helen Wray, a pharmaceutical executive who wants to find Omega for reasons of her own. But when Ford becomes a prime suspect in a series of suspicious deaths, he realizes that he can trust no one...not his fellow doctors, not a government seeking to regulate the use of antibiotics, not even the enigmatic Helen. Caught in the middle of a war where powerful men play God and greed can determine who lives and who dies, Ford knows that the only way to save his daughter--and countless others--is to take on the health-care industry itself. What he uncovers is more horrifying than he could ever have imagined. Meticulously researched, unrelentingly suspenseful, bestselling author Patrick Lynch gives us a gripping and unsettling medical thriller that brings our most frightening health care nightmares as close as tomorrow's headlines. Highlights of Campbell Scott's career include the films The Sheltering Sky, Dead Again, Singles, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Big Night, which he co-directed, and Daytrippers. He has also starred on Broadway in an acclaimed production of Long Day's Journey Into Night. He can also be heard on the audio production of The Burning Man, also available on BDD Audiocassette.
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