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Title: This One Just Never Got off the Ground!
Review: After reading Neil Ravin's Informed Consent, my first question is, where was the editor? Generic drugs are capitalized, trade names are not, medical slang is misspelled. This tale of a doctor in a research-oriented university hospital has many promising elements, but they just aren't developed well enough to make a good book. The subplot involving the investigative reporter could have been intriguing but instead is ho-hum; why tell us the contents of her well-stocked medicine cabinet without disclosing her need for the many heavy-duty psychotropics? Unlike the characters in Ravin's earlier M.D., these doctors are poorly defined and sort of blur into each other. The noncompliant, hospital-hating patient does get our sympathy, and the details of the medical detective work involved in identifying his disease are interesting, but I found the book to limp along without the spark and freshness of M.D.
