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by Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Hudson

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Robbins' Pathology and Surgical Anatomy

On his desk, next to copies of Robbins' Pathology and Surgical Anatomy, was a photograph of the two of them.

Who's Who

I didn't have to look him up in Who's Who to know that he lived someplace like Beverly Farms, that he had attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, that his wife had gone to Vassar and still wore pleated skirts, cashmere sweaters, and pearls, or that his children attended Groton and Concord.

Goodman and Gilman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

“Besides, remember Goodman and Gilman.”9 Goodman and Gilman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, the definitive text of pharmacology used by doctors. There is a discussion of the effects of marijuana on page 300 which has been widely quoted in recent legal proceedings.

DISCLOSURE

His more recent novels include DISCLOSURE and JURASSIC PARK.

JURASSIC PARK

His more recent novels include DISCLOSURE and JURASSIC PARK.

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Boston, Massachusetts
"Actually, Boston has some of the nicest cells in America. They have to: lots of famous people have spent time in those cells."
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"There are three major contenders: the General, the Brigham, and the Mem. Defenders of the Mem will tell you that the General is too large and the Brigham too small; and the General is too coldly clinical and the Brigham too coldly scientific; that the General neglects surgery at the expense of medicine and the Brigham the reverse."
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"There are three major contenders: the General, the Brigham, and the Mem. Defenders of the Mem will tell you that the General is too large and the Brigham too small; and the General is too coldly clinical and the Brigham too coldly scientific; that the General neglects surgery at the expense of medicine and the Brigham the reverse."
Boston Memorial Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"There are three major contenders: the General, the Brigham, and the Mem. Defenders of the Mem will tell you that the General is too large and the Brigham too small; and the General is too coldly clinical and the Brigham too coldly scientific; that the General neglects surgery at the expense of medicine and the Brigham the reverse."
Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"But on anybody's list of hospitals, the Boston City comes near the bottom."
Prudential Center, Boston, Massachusetts
"I drove toward it, passing the Prudential Center, the proudest monument to what the politicians call the New Boston."
Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts
"The red‐light district lies on the outskirts of the Negro slums of Roxbury, as does the Boston City."
Lincoln Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"I told them I had made evening rounds at the Lincoln and then taken a walk in the park."
Vermont, United States
"Judith was raised on a farm in Vermont, and is hardheaded, as pretty girls go."
Combat Zone, Boston, Massachusetts
"THREE BLOCKS FROM THE HOSPITAL, I passed through the Combat Zone at the corner of Mass and Columbus avenues. At night it teems with whores, pimps, addicts, and pushers; it got its name because doctors at the City see so many stabbings and shootings from this area they regard it as the location of a limited war."
Mass Avenue, Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
"THREE BLOCKS FROM THE HOSPITAL, I passed through the Combat Zone at the corner of Mass and Columbus avenues."
Scollay Square, Boston, Massachusetts
"Formerly the most violent area in Boston was Scollay Square, but it was demolished five years ago to make way for government buildings. Some consider that an improvement; some a step backward."
Charleston Street, Boston, Massachusetts
"Gaffen said, 'They found her in the gutter,' 'On Charleston Street, two blocks from the Combat Zone."
Boston Lying-in Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"When I walked into his lab in one wing of the BLI I found it filled with apples. There were apples in the refrigerators, on the reagent benches, on desks as paperweights."
Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"The Boston City itself is an immense complex of buildings sprawling over three city blocks. It has more than 1,350 beds, mostly filled with alcoholics and derelicts. Within the Boston medical establishment, the City is known as the Boston Shitty because of its clientele."
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
"roger whiting, m.d., lived near the hospital in a third-floor walk-up on the sleazy side of Beacon Hill, where they dump the garbage from Louisburg Square."
Louisburg Square, Boston, Massachusetts
"roger whiting, m.d., lived near the hospital in a third-floor walk-up on the sleazy side of Beacon Hill, where they dump the garbage from Louisburg Square."
Lincoln Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"my route from whiting to the medical school took me past the Lincoln Hospital."
Boston, Massachusetts
"In a Boston court, the jury is likely to be more than half Catholic. They'll convict him on general principles."
San Francisco, California
"San Francisco cannot quite shake off its booming, crude, gold‑rush spirit to become a genteel Eastern town."
Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts
"a city that still cherishes the Old North Church and Bunker Hill."
Northampton, Massachusetts
"Saturday. She came in from Northampton on the bus, and I picked her up at the terminal after lunch."
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Over to Harvard. She had some friends in the college."
Provincetown, Massachusetts
"In theory, Karen was on the Cape, working in an art gallery in Provincetown."
The Bahamas, Caribbean
"That was last spring, in the Bahamas. For once the whole family managed to get a week off together."
Versailles, France
"The furniture looked as if it had been bought at a Versailles auction."
Tokyo, Japan
"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."
Switzerland, Europe
"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."
Los Angeles, California
"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."
San Juan, Puerto Rico
"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."
New York, New York
"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
"smith college, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2,200 girls getting an exclusive education in the middle of nowhere. It was two hours on the turnpike to the Holyoke exit; another half‐hour on small roads until I passed under the train tracks and came into the town."
Northampton, Massachusetts
"I've never liked Northampton. It has a peculiarly repressed atmosphere for a college town."
Holyoke, Massachusetts
"It was two hours on the turnpike to the Holyoke exit; another half‐hour on small roads until I passed under the train tracks and came into the town."
Wilbur Street, Northampton, Massachusetts
"I was given a map of the campus and set out for her dorm, Henley Hall. It turned out to be a white frame house on Wilbur Street."
Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
"the Trafalgar club is located in a small, dilapidated house on Beacon Street, just down from the Hill."
Trafalgar club, Boston, Massachusetts
"the Trafalgar club is located in a small, dilapidated house on Beacon Street, just down from the Hill. Unlike the professional clubs of larger cities, the Trafalgar is so quiet that few Bostonians even know of its existence."
Boston, Massachusetts
"The trial will be held in Boston."
New England, United States
"From the outside, the Lee house is brick, massive, New England, and old, like all the other houses on the street."
Beverly Farms, Beverly, Massachusetts
"I didn't have to look him up in Who's Who to know that he lived someplace like Beverly Farms, that he had attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, that his wife had gone to Vassar and still wore pleated skirts, cashmere sweaters, and pearls, or that his children attended Groton and Concord."
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"I didn't have to look him up in Who's Who to know that he lived someplace like Beverly Farms, that he had attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, that his wife had gone to Vassar..."
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
"I didn't have to look him up in Who's Who to know that he lived someplace like Beverly Farms, that he had attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, that his wife had gone to Vassar and still wore pleated skirts, cashmere sweaters, and pearls..."
Groton, Massachusetts
"I didn't have to look him up in Who's Who to know that he lived someplace like Beverly Farms... or that his children attended Groton and Concord."
Lincoln Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"The telephone rang. It was Sanderson, head of the path labs at the Lincoln."
Peru, South America
"The patient was American, a doctor working for the Public Health Service in Peru. He was taking a Peruvian drug for asthma, and one day he began to get sick."
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
"Some people said she was addicted to amphetamines, but I don't know if that was true. A lot of people on the Cape had been stung by her, and there were lots of nasty stories. They used to say that Karen Randall would go up on anything, and down on everything."
London, England
"I have a friend in London who sent me one—he swears by it—but it was always getting clogged with fur."
Cambridge City Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"I parked on a quiet residential block in Cambridge not far from the Cambridge City Hospital."
San Francisco, California
"Hammond comes from San Francisco, from what he calls 'a long line of shipping.' He looks like a walking advertisement for the California life—tall, blond, tanned, and handsome."
1334 Langdon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
"I found the address in the phone book: Samuel F. Archer, 1334 Langdon Street. I dialed the number."
Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California
"a city that still cherishes the Old North Church and Bunker Hill."
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
"I didn't have to look him up in Who's Who to know that he lived someplace like Beverly Farms... or that his children attended Groton and Concord."
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
"The apartment was located on a steep hill on the east slope of Beacon Hill, in a battered apartment building."
Brookline High, Brookline, Massachusetts
"I took the sitter home. She was a short, pert girl named Sally, a cheerleader at Brookline High."
Boston, Massachusetts
"Once a month, the Lord takes pity on the Cradle of Liberty and lets the sun shine on Boston. Today was that day: cool, bright and clear, with an autumn crispness in the air."
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
"If you are going to live anywhere in Boston, you have to live on Beacon Hill."
Chestnut Street, Boston, Massachusetts
"I opened the phone book and looked up the address of Angela Harding. She was living on Chestnut Street, a very good address. I went over to see her. chestnut street IS off Charles, near the bottom of the Hill. It's a very quiet area of town houses, antique shops, quaint restaurants, and small grocery stores; most of the people who live here are young professionals—doctors and lawyers and bankers— who want a good address but can't yet afford to move out to Newton or Wellesley."
Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts
"chestnut street IS off Charles, near the bottom of the Hill."
Newton, Massachusetts
"most of the people who live here are young professionals—doctors and lawyers and bankers— who want a good address but can't yet afford to move out to Newton or Wellesley."
Wellesley, Massachusetts
"most of the people who live here are young professionals—doctors and lawyers and bankers— who want a good address but can't yet afford to move out to Newton or Wellesley."
Lincoln Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"But as I entered the lobby of the Lincoln Hospital, the first person I saw was Harry Fallon."
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"He had once rowed stroke for the Harvard heavyweights."
Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
"Fritz Werner lived in a town house on Beacon Street. The ground floor was given over to his office—an anteroom and a large, comfortable room with desk, chair, and couch—and to his library."
Boston, Massachusetts
"Art Lee was a circumspect and cautious man. He was hardly a household word among the pregnant women of Boston. He was known to a few physicians and a relatively small number of patients."
Lincoln Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
"Twice a week. A rendezvous in the intimate, sexually charged atmosphere of the Lincoln Hospital cafeteria."
Helsinki, Finland
"I said, 'I'd like to talk with this Signe.' 'Impossible. Signe returned to Helsinki six months ago."
Rhode Island, United States
"She comes from a good family, you know—a Rhode Island family—but they sent her to a Swiss school."
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
"My father was a preacher. In Raleigh, North Carolina. He was the only educated man in the community."
India, South Asia
"If you will remember," Fritz said, "J. D. spent the months of November and December in India last year working for the State Department. Some kind of goodwill tour, or public health thing."
Cohasset, Massachusetts
"On the way back, I turned off the expressway at the Cohasset exit."
Marshfield, Massachusetts
"The road narrowed at Marshfield, becoming two lanes instead of three."
Hyannis, Massachusetts
"We passed Plymouth, then Hyannis, and out toward Provincetown."
Provincetown, Massachusetts
"We passed Plymouth, then Hyannis, and out toward Provincetown."
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
"I recognized the place. It was the east side of the Cape, where there was a long, one-hundred‐foot sandy drop to the sea."
South Shore, Massachusetts
"As we drove toward the South Shore and the Randall house, Wilson said, "What made you change your mind?"
Newton, Massachusetts
"TWO PETER RANDALL LIVED WEST OF NEWTON, in a modem house."
Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"South of the Boston Commons, the character of the town changes abruptly."
Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"Along the Commons, on Tremont Street, there are elegant shops and high-class theaters."
Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"Washington Street is one block over, and it's a little sleazier: there are bars and tarts and nude movie houses."
State House, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"working his way around the Commons and the State House."
Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
"The days when white boys could go to the Apollo in Harlem."
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
"…I was almost certain that it had been Roman, I thought. He was the only logical one. Roman had been heading for Beacon Hill. And there was only one logical reason for that, too."
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
"I directed her across Beacon Hill, to Angela Harding's street. A police car was parked in front of her apartment."
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
"MICHAEL CRICHTON graduated from Harvard Medical School and served his internship before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing."
Japan, Asia
"Proponents regard abortion on demand as a highly effective form of birth control and point to its success in Japan, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere."
Hungary, Europe
"Proponents regard abortion on demand as a highly effective form of birth control and point to its success in Japan, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere."
Czechoslovakia, Europe
"Proponents regard abortion on demand as a highly effective form of birth control and point to its success in Japan, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere."
Kalahari Desert, Southern Africa
"Usually examples are drawn from marginal societies, living in a harsh environment, such as the African Pygmies or Bushmen of the Kalahari."
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
"It took me awhile to realize that he was heading for Beacon Hill."
State House, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"“Where does he live?” … “Over behind the State House somewhere. In a basement.”"
Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
"The cars continue south, past Plymouth, down toward the Cape."
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"outside, cold autumnal sun splashed over the bare branches of the skeletal trees along Massachusetts Avenue."
Washington, D.C., United States
"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."
Boston, Massachusetts
"Judith said, "I think I want to leave Boston. And never come back."
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"I didn't have to look him up in Who's Who to know that he lived someplace like Beverly Farms, that he had attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, that his wife had gone to Vassar..."