Mortality Rate

Not quite up there with Michael Palmer and Robin Cook but definitely in the style and enjoyable for lovers of medical thrillers like myself!

It is an honor for six medical students to be allowed to participate in Professor Arthur Law's twice monthly ethics seminar. At each session, a student discusses a case that he is involved with that either the cost in resources or time questions keeping the patient alive. The students debate the ethics surrounding each case and seek a consensus on how to resolve the debate. One of the attending students is Mac McCall, who slowly concludes that being a subject of these discussions might be hazardous to the life of the individual. Mac has noticed that every recent patient discussed has died. he wonders if one of the group members is behind the sudden rash of deaths. When one of his peers, who was investigating the deaths, dies from an apparent suicide, Mac believes that a deliberate killer is on the loose. When someone tries to run him down, Mac knows beyond a shadow of doubt that his suspicions are real and he better do something about them if he wants to stay alive long enough to graduate. Fans of medical thrillers will want to read Jack Chase's MORTALITY RATE. Although it is obvious from the beginning what is happening to the patients, it is the who and how that makes the novel extremely interesting. The answers are very frightening at what could potentially occur at a hospital as Mr. Chase gets the audience to question the ethics and practices of the medical establishment. Harriet Klausner