Michael Palmer, M.D., is the author of Miracle Cure,Critical Judgment,Silent Treatment,Natural Causes,Extreme Measures,Flashback,Side Effects, andThe Sisterhood . His books have been translated into thirty languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals,...

Michael Palmer, M.D., is the author of Miracle Cure,Critical Judgment,Silent Treatment,Natural Causes,Extreme Measures,Flashback,Side Effects, andThe Sisterhood . His books have been translated into thirty languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program.