Foreign Body by Robin Cook 2008 First Ed HC DJ
Thriller about the timely subject of medical tourism, the trend in which U.S. citizens seek to save costs on expensive surgery through treatment overseas. At the center of the drama is Jennifer Hernandez, a fourth-year medical student at UCLA, whose grandmother has died in a New Delhi hospital following hip replacement surgery.
Suspicious about the circumstances, Hernandez immediately flies to India to investigate. There she not only discovers a number of similar deaths of U.S. citizens but also runs into the one-two punch of a desperate Indian medical industry struggling to block all publicity about the deaths and a huge American HMO that wants nothing more than the widest exposure of the apparent medical missteps in the Third World.
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult; 1st Edition (August 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780399155024
ISBN-13: 9780399155024
Condition: Excellent, binding straight tight, ink initials inside cover page, otherwise clean white pages. Looks New. Dust jacket also excellent, glossy finish (does not show on scans) almost no wear. Scans of actual book
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