Five Patients

About “Five Patients”

Five Patients is a true account by Michael Crichton detailing five real-life medical cases he encountered during his time as a medical doctor in emergency rooms and hospital wards. The book describes a construction worker injured in a scaffold collapse, a middle-aged dispatcher suffering from a high fever, a young man who nearly severs his hand in an accident, an airline traveler experiencing chest pains, and a mother of three diagnosed with a life-threatening disease.