Dr. Peter Brown is having a rough day -- he's fighting to keep a patient alive long enough for someone competent to diagnose him properly -- he's also fighting to get someone to diagnose him properly. And he's a got a new patient that recognizes him from his past life, who makes a threat -- keep him...
Josh Bazell, the author of Beat the Reaper, is a medical resident at UC San Francisco. His hero, Peter Brown, nee Pietro Brnwa, aka the Bearclaw, is also a medical resident, at the fictional Manhattan Catholic Hospital. There, one would hope, the similarities end. Pete Brown is not a very good do...
I finished listening to Josh Bazell's debut mystery Beat the Reaper. Bazell wrote this medical thriller while he was doing his medical residency at UCSF. If Bazell's description of what happens behind the scenes in a hospital is true, then we all better start taking our vitamins, because you do not ...
I think I'd give this one a B-/3.5 stars(I REALLY wish half-stars were an option!) For those not familiar with the book, it's a thriller of sorts with a hero who was once a mob hitman and who is now an intern at a truly terrible hospital in New York. His past and present lives collide when he discov...
Reminds me of "Making of a Surgeon" from many years ago. Entertaining, lots of action, putting together the dysfunctional culture of medicine and mobsters, mordant humour, and more. I read this after Peter Brown #2, and enjoyed this enormously, although unlike some of the other reviewers, I enjoye...
The ratings for this book were all over the place, so when I saw it at a book sale I thought I’d pick it up. I should have dropped it like a hot potato.What little exists in the way of a plot involves a doctor and one of his patients. There’s nothing wrong with some cuss words but the characters swe...
A smashing debut, hopped up on the fumes of too many loooooong days as a medical resident mixed with the gasoline-esque kick of a mafia tale. Our main character, Pietro Brnwa/Peter Brown, is a mix between Daniel Craig and Dr. House. He's smart, he's savvy, he's a hell of a fighter, and he's funny ...
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