
Cell
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · December 2, 2014
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- Who it’s for
- A medical thriller where a promising technology makes care—and trust—feel newly precarious.
- Genres
- Medical Thrillers, Tech Thrillers, Medical Fiction
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, December 2, 2014
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A doctor's life gets turned upside by a dangerous new technology in this thought-provoking medical thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere.
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The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. George’s initial collision with this incredible innovation is devastating. He awakens one morning to find his fiancée dead in bed alongside him, not long after she participated in an iDoc beta test. Then several of his patients die after undergoing imaging procedures. All of them had been part of the same beta test. Is it possible that iDoc is being subverted by hackers—and that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up? Despite threats to both his career and his freedom, George relentlessly seeks the truth, knowing that if he’s right, the consequences could be lethal.
Medicine Meets Code
A medical thriller where a promising technology makes care—and trust—feel newly precarious.
Come here for
- A doctor caught between clinical practice and a radical new tool
- Technology, medical risk, and questions of institutional trust
Expect
- Serious thriller tension rooted in medicine and emerging technology
- A sustained search for truth under mounting personal and professional pressure
Where it sits
| Medical Thrillers | 96% |
|---|---|
| Tech Thrillers | 70% |
| Medical Fiction | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Thrillers
- Medical Thrillers
- Medical Fiction
- Authors
- George Guidall, Robin Cook, Penguin Audio
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- December 2, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Thrillers