Five Patients

Description for FIVE PATIENTS: THE HOSPITAL EXPLAINED by Michael Crichton:

Ralph Orlando - Construction worker in his fifties seriously injured in the collapse of a scaffold.

John O'Connor - Middle-aged railroad dispatcher with a high fever which makes him wildly delirious.

Peter Luchesi - Young worker's hand is nearly severed from his arm by an accident.

Sylvia Thompson - Woman traveling alone experiences chest pain on an airplane.

Edith Murphy - Mother of three suffers severe swelling in her and ankles.