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Lethal Practice

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I am a lover of medical thrillers and this one was okay. It wasn't the worst medical thriller I have ever read, but it certainly wasn't the best either. Earl Garnet is an ER physician, whose wife is pregnant and also a physician. Earl is plunged into the middle of trouble when he is called to the chief admisistrators office to find the man dead. He also discovers a cardiac needle has been broken off in the murder victims chest. There are only a handfull of doctors who are skilled enough to know how to use a cardiac needle, and Dr. Garnet is among them. This fact quickly makes him a suspect.

Garnet, struggling to identify the real killer and clear his own name, soon becomes the killer's next target.

The story started out just fine and had enough action and suspense to keep you wanting to read through dinner and past your bedtime. There is enough medical jargon to make it interesting, but Clement doesn't over do it. He gives a brief explanation so any layman can keep up with the story. Clement trys to give the story a twist at the end that is lame and out of the blue. It was not well done, but all in all, the story is a good one and worth your time. Hopefully Clement will get a little better with plot organization for his next effort.

Peter Clement has captured facts from real life in an emergency department setting ... and melted them into a simply wonderful thriller. As an ED nurse ... I found his twist on the facts to be very creative yet within the realm of possibility. I couldn't put this book down!

I was so excited to pick up this book due to my love of medical based thrillers. However, I found this book to be one of those that's "hard to get into".

The first half of the book was just OK and I found myself making myself read it. The main character seemed to be on the outside looking in rather than invovled in the story. Things just weren't happening to him like you would expect in a "thriller". Finally at page 153 things started happening and after that I was liking the book a little more.

The ending was well written and a great salvage to what I thought would be a downer of a book. I just wish the book would have grabbed me a little sooner than halfway through.

Great Thrilling book. I am a novice reader and found this book difficult to put down. Highly Recommended.

Dr. Earl Garnet is the Chief of the ER in St. Paul's Hospital in Buffalo New York. St. Paul's is suffering money problems, then the Chief Administrator is murdered in the hospital. The first half of this book drags a bit. Too much time is spent on Dr. Garnet's internal angst. He is worried about being a suspect/target. He is worried one of his staff is a murderer. And he goes over these thoughts again and again. Then the story comes together and moves along at rapid, action filled pace. The ending is a real corker. Worth the effort.

This is a book that you can't put down once you have started reading it. Get ready to lose sleep because you will want to read through the night until you finish it.

I thought this book was GREAT!! It kept me in suspense from the beginning to the end, never knew who was responsible until the very end. Full of suspense, adventure, heart stopping moments. I can't wait for his next novel.

This book contains the standard medical plot-- this time, murder by cardiac needle and a full list of arrogant, stupid, or criminally inept doctors. It's unbelievable sometimes-- would a hospital really axe 100 hospital beds just to "save on water and laundry costs" without even knowing what those costs are? The really scary part of this medical thriller is... what if some of its plotline about emergency room treatment is really true? After all, the author is an EM doc and should know. Patients on "managed care" denied emergency treatment, shoved off on a gurney in a hall somewhere and left to die from lack of attention... one, lone resident guarding an ICU unit at night... ambulances continuing to drop off patients for whom there is no room... The medical plot might be chilling, but the ER itself will freeze you down to your bones. Don't go to a big-city ER room unless you've got "pay for service" care and a lot of courage.

Clement takes the reader into a world that they may only have a passing relation to: the Emergency Room. With his excellent writing skills, Clement unfolds a scary story of betrayal, murder, and suspense. The story races to an exciting, and surprising finish. I highly recommend this book.

This book was great. The only problem I would find with this book if you do not have any medical knowledge it could be a little wordy.