Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. (born October 9, 1942, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States), is the author of 12 novels, often called the Medical thrillers series. October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Nickname: City of Homes Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Hampden County Settled 1636 Incorporated 1636 Government type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Charles Ryan (D) Area    - City  33. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...

He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program. Before he began work on his first published novel The Sisterhood, about euthanasia, Palmer was practicing treatment of drug addiction. His first book was rejected, but The Sisterhood, in which nurses aiming to end human suffering kill the patient, made the New York Times bestseller list - something repeated by all his subsequent novels to this day. For the program to kill people with disabilities in Nazi Germany, see Action T4. ... Drug addiction, or dependency is the compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Side Effects, his second published work, was about the testing of unapproved drugs on a patient in Nazi Germany, but his most famous novel proved to be 1991's Extreme Measures, in which a promising young doctor is threated by ahospital elite after discovering the body's criminal acts. Natural Causes (1994) is about a holistic doctor who prescribes medicine that actually kills patients, whilst Miracle Cure is about a drug for heart disease that actually is very dangerous because of its side effects. National Socialism redirects here. ... Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases which affect the heart. ...

Novels

1. The Sisterhood (1982)
2. Side Effects (1985)
3. Flashback (1988)
4. Extreme Measures (1991)
5. Natural Causes (1994)
6. Silent Treatment (1995)
7. Critical Judgment (1996)
8. Miracle Cure (1998)
9. The Patient (2000)
10. Fatal (2002)
11. The Society (2004)
12. The Fifth Vial (februrary 2007)

Extreme Measures is a 1996 thriller film about the ethics of how far we are willing to go, and how much we are willing to sacrifice, in order to cure the worlds ills. ...

External links

• michaelpalmerbooks.com