Michael Palmer, MD,(1942-2013) was the author ofMiracle Cure,Critical Judgment,Silent Treatment,Natural Causes,Extreme Measures,Flashback,Side Effects, andThe Sisterhood. His books have been translated into thirty-five 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 served as an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program.