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Contagion

When a series of rare, virulent and lethal illnesses all break out in clinics and hospitals controlled by the same for-profit health care corporation, Dr. John Stapleton fears sinister sabotage. He teams up with an unlikely colleague; an art director from a hot advertising firm, to uncover the motive behind the killings.

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  • "When a series of rare, virulent and lethal illnesses all break out in clinics and hospitals controlled by the same for-profit health care corporation, Dr. John Stapleton fears sinister sabotage. He teams up with an unlikely colleague; an art director from a hot advertising firm, to uncover the motive behind the killings."
  • "When a series of rare, virulent and lethal illnesses all break out in clinics and hospitals controlled by the same for-profit health care corporation, Dr. John Stapleton fears sinister sabotage. He teams up with an unlikely colleague; an art director from a hot advertising firm, to uncover the motive behind the killings."@en
  • "A NY pathologist smells a conspiracy when three rare and deadly diseases break out. Is he any match for a giant HMO?"@en
  • "After losing his Midwestern ophthalmology practice to a for-profit medical giant, and then his family to a commuter airline tragedy, Dr. John Stapleton's life is in ashes."@en
  • "Contagion anticiptes some of the uncharted consequences of managed health care, in an age when even the wariest consumer may be at risk. It is a terrifying cautionary tale for the millenium, as health care giants collide."@en
  • "Dr. John Stapleton loses his opthalmology practice to a giant HMO and his family in a plane crash. He starts over, in the anonymity of New York City, retraining in forensic pathology and buries himself in work. But when a deadly, rare flu wipes out hosts of people, he can't ignore his suspicions. Is that HMO behind a plot to kill off its more costly subscribers?"@en

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Medical novels"@en
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  • "Contagion"
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