Coma (novel)

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**Coma**
Author	Robin Cook
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Thriller, novel
Publisher
Released	1977
Media Type	Print (paperback and hardback)
ISBN	ISBN
Preceded by	Year of the Intern
Followed by	Sphinx

Coma is Robin Cook's first published novel written in 1977. The book was a New York Times best seller and was also voted as the number one thriller of the year by the New York Times.

It was made into a highly successful film Coma by Michael Crichton in 1978.

1 Synopsis
2 Characters
3 Editions
4 Reference

[edit] Synopsis

Susan Wheeler, a third year medical student and a new intern at Boston's Memorial Hospital, discovers many mysterious cases in which at Boston's Memorial Hospital patients are comatose after surgery. After discovering that the reason for coma appears to be brain damage, Dr. Wheeler uncovers the startling mystery why.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Susan Wheeler

She is the main character of the novel. She was a 23 year-old medical student on medical training in the Boston Memorial Hospital.

[edit] Dr Mark Bellows

Mark Bellows is a surgery resident in Memorial hospital and he is also the instructor of Susan Wheeler and four other students who are assigned to him. This group of 5 students (George Niles, Harvey Goldberg, Susan Wheeler, Geoffrey Fairweather III, and Paul Carpin) is to be taken to rounds in surgery rooms and ICUs.

[edit] Victims

Nancy Greenly and Sean Berman are two patients who went into coma immediately after their operations in Memorial Hospital because of complications in their surgery due to anesthesia.