Books : Thriller : English
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.Palmer claims he never wanted to be a writer. He didn't think he had much "flair" for it, even though he read in his spare time. In 1978 he read Dr. Robin Cook's medical thriller Coma. Palmer thought if Cook, also a Wesleyan graduate, could write a novel, then he could too.Before he began work on his first published novel, The Sisterhood, about euthanasia, Palmer was practicing treatment of drug addiction. His first book was rejected, but The Sisterhood, in which nurses aiming to end human suffering by killing the patient, made the New York Times bestseller list - something repeated by all his subsequent novels to this day.Side Effects, his second published work, was about the testing of unapproved drugs on a patient in Nazi Germany, but his most famous novel proved to be 1991's Extreme Measures, in which a promising young doctor is threatened by a hospital elite after discovering the body's criminal acts. Natural Causes (1994) is about a holistic doctor who prescribes medicine that actually kills patients, whilst Miracle Cure is about a drug for heart disease that actually is very dangerous because of its side effects.The 1996 thriller film Extreme Measures, starring Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker, is based on Palmer's book of the same name.