Word: coma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coma" is a suspense novel about a third-year Harvard Medical student who discovers a plot among her superiors to reduce essentially healthy patients to comas in order to use their organs for research purposes...
...interview during the showing of the movie, Crichton said he was intrigued by the prospect of directing "Coma" because he "wanted to do a movie about a woman who wasn't a hooker or a housewife...
Crichton, a graduate of the Medical School, said he was able to draw on his experiences "to establish a tone, a political atmosphere," but added that the specific events in "Coma" were not ones he witnessed at the Medical School...
...relationship between real experience and fiction is complicated," Crichton said. "People who write books in which the characters f--- a lot are assumed to f--- a lot themselves, when in reality, people who write books in which the characters f--- a lot often aren't getting laid. 'Coma' isn't meant to be a documentary," he added...
Crichton is author of more than 17 novels and has directed several films before "Coma...