Natural Causes: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, Jan 5, 2011 - Fiction - 496 pages
“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal

Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed are the only thing these women have in common.

Soon Sarah is fighting to save her career, her reputation—her life. For she's certain there must be some unknown factor linking these women, and as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that someone will do anything—even murder—to keep a devastating secret.

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About the author (2011)

Michael Palmer, MD, (1942–2013) was the author of Miracle CureCritical JudgmentSilent TreatmentNatural CausesExtreme MeasuresFlashbackSide Effects, and The Sisterhood. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and served as an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program.

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