Robin Cook: Coma (USA 1977)

From the Publisher:
"A CHILLING, FAST-MOVING, SUSPENSE THRILLER... UN-PUT-DOWNABLE!" -- BOSTON GLOBE
They call it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for routine procedures, are victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never wake up again.

Some traceless error in anesthesia has caused irreversible brain death, leaving each of them in a hopeless coma.
Something is very wrong here. And Susan Wheeler, a beautiful young medical student, hazards her life to uncover the horrifying explanation -- a plot so ghastly, so far-reaching, so terrifyingly incredible, yet so nightmarishly possible it will leave you suspended in a state of fear... .

COMA

"UNNERVING... WILL LOWER YOUR TEMPERATURE!" -- NEWSWEEK
"STRIKES A DEAFENING CHORD OF TERROR!" -- WASHINGTON POST
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Robin Cook: Coma. New American Library, Signet Book #E7881 (December, 1977), 308 p., $2.50.

Robin Cook: Coma (USA 1977)

From the Publisher:
The surgery was routine, the kind performed many times a day at Boston's greatest hospital.
And the teams that worked in OR #8 were among the best in their field.
But even their proficient skills fell useless as something terrifying began to happen.
Certain patients never regained consciousness:
first Nancy Greenly,
then Sean Berman.
And a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for minor surgery -- all victims of the same inexplicable, hideous accident on the operating table.

Their brains had been destroyed... .

COMA
the spine-chilling shocker about a crime beyond imagining and the young woman medical student who commits herself to solving it.

"Wonderfully exciting, a real medical cliffhanger." -- Publishers Weekly

Robin Cook was born in New York City and graduated from Wesleyan University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. His writings have appeared in Newsweek. He is the author of The Year of the Intern and numerous scientific publications, many of which deal with medical phenomena pertaining to a favorite sport, scuba diving. Dr. Cook lives in Boston and is a practicing ophthalmologist and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Robin Cook: Coma. A Novel. Little, Brown, ISBN: 0316155101 (March, 1977), 306 p., $8.95.