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B&N Overview
Dr. Thea Sperelakis has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind and a remarkable ability to recall details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts has led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of a hospital and to embrace working with the poor. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated internal medicine specialists in the world and the founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston’s sprawling, powerful Beaumont Clinic.
When Petros is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver, no one thinks he will survive. Two of Petros’s other children, both physicians, battle Thea and their eccentric brother, Dimitri, by demanding that treatment for their father be withheld. Meanwhile, Petros lingers in the Beaumont Clinic’s intensive care unit, where Thea is his only advocate.
As Thea uncovers the facts surrounding the disaster, it seems more and more to be no accident. Petros himself is the only witness. Who would want him dead? The answers are trapped in his brain...until he looks at Thea and begins to slowly blink a terrifying message.

In The Second Opinion, Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test. With unforgettable characters and twists and betrayals that come from the most unlikely places, The Second Opinion will keep you guessing...and looking over your shoulder.

Releasing to BigJohnLefty's Another Audiobookbox

Selected from the audio box.
This is an abridged version, 5 CDs.

Good story but wish the reading were better.

I am putting into Booklady331's box to swap out something else to listen to.

Arrived home in my CD only bookbox. I am going to keep this one to listen to. I'll pass it on after I listen to it.

Enjoy! lending to my non-bookcrossing friend

Back home with me.

Found the book interesting with the use of an heroine having Asperger Syndrome. I work with a few students with Aspergers. It was fairly predictable, but enjoyable.

Enjoy! KTM book being released into BigJohnLefty's audio bookbox. Trust this book finds a new home.

I picked this out of BigJohnLefty's Another CD-Only Audiobook box. Thanks for sharing!

I enjoyed this book very much. It was a very good medical thriller that had some nice twists and turns that I found interesting. I liked Palmer's heroine, Thea Sperelakis, a medical Dr who has Asperger Syndrome. When Thea's father is severely injured in an accident, she comes to his aid, only to discover that what landed him in the hospital and in a comatose state may not have been an accident after all. Relying on her smarts and attention to details, Thea is resolved to discover who done it and why. Because of her Aspergers, Thea finds she is at a disadvantage in some aspects of her investigation such as being able to tell little lies in order to get to the truth, blurting out exactly what her thoughts are, or being able to read other people's emotions.... who can or should she trust? I thought it was an excellent ear-listening experience.

Sending this off to tostle who picked it off of iwillrejoice's Audiobook VBB list. Happy Travels! Happy listening!

Thank you for sharing this book!

This was a good book. This was a medical drama...a bit hard to believe, but it was good.

This book is going into HI77's Audio Bookbox.
Enjoy!

Waving one's scalpel around,

might impress a hospital
but it scares everyone else.

This lucky little audiobook has become part of HI77's Audio BookBox #2!

https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/573907

Hopefully it will find many new readers to enjoy it! ;)

Looks like this one's been passed around a bit. I'll bite as well!

Dr. Thea Sperelakis, who has been working outside the country after seeking a change, returns to the Boston area when her father (also a physician) is involved in a hit-and-run and is hospitalized and in a coma. Though the rest of her siblings (a twin brother and sister, also doctors, and another brother who mostly stays at home as a genius recluse) feel there is not much hope, Thea is not quite ready to give up hope, especially when she believes her father is communicating with her from his hospital bed via eye blinks. Soon Thea is convinced that something evil underlies his accident, that it was indeed no accident, and she seeks to discover who and why someone would want to see her father dead.

It has been a while since I've read a medical thriller. This was an abridged audio and as abridgments go, it was fair, though somewhat choppy at times with abrupt transitions, etc. But the meat of the story was there. I enjoyed it well enough, though found that it stretched the edges of realism a few times, which thrillers tend to do. Thea was characterized as having Asperger Syndrome, which seemed mostly realistic, although I felt that the audiobook reader roboticized the voicing of her character a bit too much. Overall, a decent read, though not one that's particularly likely to stick with me for very long.

Sending off to PBS member. Enjoy! :')

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