Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer
Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D., was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. Some of his novels have made the New York Times Best Seller List and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures, was adopted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 October 1942
CitySpringfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
This is a unique program and a national model for being a very innovative program.
Our travel segment is growing two to three times faster than the travel industry as a whole, We're seeing more organized group tours during the spring break time, and a lot wider diversity of travel destinations.
Who wants to buy a beer from Brazil with a German name? What is that all about? The brand had no identity. It would be hard to convince people that a German beer from Brazil was worth an extra $20 a case.
We know that travel is essential to a complete education. Traveling abroad teaches understanding of other people, cultures and communities, and these types of experiences offer young people a greater ability to be successful in today's global society.
What you are seeing more often is 'I want to lie on the beach, but I also want to interview for an internship or share my knowledge.
You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.
Party trips to spring break destinations have been flat or declining since 2000.
I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'
Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc., to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.
Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-
You must have me confused with myself
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.
Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.