This book is seemingly one of so many medical thrillers. Unfortunately, to me, this book seemed like a rip-off of other books so that the plot, the characters, and the literary tricks were old and boring. I thought that the overall pace of the book was very uneven and that the characters were so matter-of-factly presented, that this seemed less like a novel and more like some sort of high school report. The medical aspects were never properly developed and, after spending a lot of time at the start of the book about it, the ending seemed horribly short and unjustified--did the author simply get tired of writing?