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Three stars may seem like a harsh review but if you know anything about Zebra s horror library then you know something scoring three stars is like a breath ofwell if not fresh air than at least slightly fetid air someone s attempted to scrub with Febreze or some other odor neutralizer. Fatal analysis reporting system I wouldn t honestly call Fatal Analysis horror Though it deals with a very disturbing idea a doctor providing false cancer readings to innocent patients thus ensuring a mastectomy the way it s presented is far in line with the Thriller label To be fair it was written in the late 80 s where Medical Thriller was at the apex of its genre power thanks to Robin Cook so I suppose by that definition it would be Horror It s just got so little in common with contemporary books in the genre that defining it as Horror now will ensure it doesn t find the appropriate audience in the 21st Century. Fatal analysis reporting system Cliff Patton and Leah Temple are medical professionals or at least they were at the time this book was published he a medical doctor and she a registered nurse so they re not only comfortable handling the terminology but also the characterization of the doctors nurses and residents on staff at the Palm Beach Institute for the Breast What s they re good at not over explaining things either I ve zero background in medicine save what I ve personally experienced in a few decades worth of doctor visits but there wasn t a single thing in here I found incomprehensible to the layman Either the terminology was explained if it was somehow esoteric or the meaning could be derived through context There s nothing annoying in medical thrillers than two doctors standing around explaining things to one another that the reader is well aware they both know and shouldn t need to be reminding one another Patton and Temple pull this off smoothly and I give them plenty of credit for this because it s the kind of thing you either know or you don t It s the sort of writing that editors can only muck up not enhance Top marks for this. Fatal analysis reporting system My only real complaint about the book is its stereotypical romance novel sub plot The main character is a beautiful young woman entering her surgical residency at a top notch specialty center and she quickly finds herself caught up in a love triangle between Hank the good ol Texan in cowboy boots who wields a scalpel like Da Vinci flicked paintbrushes and Gordo the guy with the surfer good looks and puppy dog eyes who s the real ladies man around the office I don t mind romance in a horror book but it s got to be deftly handled than this Here it s clumsy and overwrought and axing it could easily save a solid 50 pages with no great loss to the overall narrative. Fatal analysis reporting system Otherwise the rest of the story is solid Office politics make for a decent part of the horror involving the rest of the characters being unconvinced of what Carlsie suspects because they ve worked there so long a scandal of that magnitude is unthinkable It isn t until people start questioning what Carlsie has to gain from her accusations that they start seeing the forest for the trees and wondering if maybe she isn t right about their chief pathologist. Fatal analysis reporting system Fatal Analysis isn t something I d recommend to anyone unless they are particularly enad of the medical thriller It s got some disturbing ideas but while the bite is strong the teeth themselves are weak and draw very little blood so gore hounds won t be impressed Likewise people looking for a strong suspense plot won t appreciate the thickly applied love triangle sub plot Romance readers likely aren t looking for fiction involving a serial breast mutilator It s a slow burn with a decent enough payoff for a Zebra publication and if you read it prior to undergoing any sort of breast biopsy it ll likely keep you awake right up until they put the mask over your face but if you give it a pass you aren t missing much. Fatal analysis reporting system Best Scene Carlsie and Oscar the pathologist square off in a pretty brutal battle in the Institute s basement towards the end of the story where all the specimen tissue from the mastectomies are stored which means you just know at some point they re going to be fighting amidst a plethora of broken glass and formaldahyded boobs I d pay money to see the movie version of this fight for that reason alone but there s some pretty savage hand to hand stuff involving scalpels and eye gouging too These aren t enough to quench the blood thirst in readers looking for gore but no matter the outcome neither Carlsie nor Oscar are going to look like themselves in the aftermath English
| Fatal Analysis By Cliff Patton |
| 0821723510 |
| 9780821723517 |
| English |
| 384 |
| Mass Market Paperback |
.. Fatal analysis reporting system This is also a Zebra publication though so again I ve only myself to blame for picking it up