+Michael Palmer Connection

This page is for those who love Michael Palmer books. Palmer's medical thrillers keep you on the edge of your seat!

Michael Palmer books

About Michael Palmer

You must have this five-star thriller: Extreme Measures

Critical Judgment
Flashback
Miracle Cure
Natural Causes
Side Effects
Silent Treatment
The Sisterhood

Michael Palmer didn't start out as an author. When he was a pre-med major at Wesleyan University (CT), his first English class paper got a failing grade. However, those who read his books give him very high marks, indeed. In fact, his nine novels have all made the New York Times Best Seller List. Small wonder, to those of us who have started reading them.

Palmer went to medical school at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland). He did his Internal Medicine training at Boston City General Hospital and and Massachusetts General Hospital. Like other interns, he found this stressful.

So, he found solace in the fiction on such outstanding writers as Eric Ambler, John D. MacDonald, Robert Ludlum, and Alistair McLean. You can see their influence in his writing.

Another author who influenced him was medical thriller author Robin Cook. In fact, the year before Star Wars came out, Palmer read Robin Cook's breakthrough thriller Coma. This got him to thinking about writing novels in the same genre. So, he wrote a book called "The Corey Prescription," based on an event that actually happened in his medical career. The book itself was a writing disaster, but through it he demonstrated his knowledge of the dramatic. That book has never been published in English, but it has been published in a few other languages.

One thing led to another, and he gained Jane Rotrosen as his agent. That led to the writing of The Sisterhood in 1982. That book has come out in nearly 40 printing runs, and is in over 30 languages. If you read it, you understand why....

In addition to writing these nail-biters, Palmer now works part-time for the Massachusetts Medical Society as an Associate Director of their physician health program. In this role, he helps doctors overcome their own problems with mental illness, physical illness, or substance abuse.

Palmer plays duplicate bridge to keep his mind sharp. To keep his body conditioned, he trains four or five days per week. He likes to watch martial arts movies, and he is devoted to his three sons.