Mindbend (novel)

Mindbend
Author(s)	Robin Cook
Cover artist	Lionel Jeans
Language	English
Genre(s)	Thriller novel
Publisher	Macmillan London Limited
Publication date	1985
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	254 pp
ISBN	0-330-29165-3
OCLC Number	14905727
Preceded by	Godplayer
Followed by	Outbreak

Mindbend is a novel by the novelist Robin Cook, first published in 1985. The current paperback edition is available with ISBN 0-451-14108-3.

Arolen is a giant pharma company, expanding at rapid pace and bringing more and more doctors into its clutches. Once doctors go on CME on board a cruise organised by Arolen, they come back totally changed, in personality and opinions. Strangely many of them opt for job in Julian Clinic, even at the cost of leaving their lucrative private practices. Incidentally, the number of therapeutic abortions at the Julian Clinic are also rising. Hero of the novel, Adam Schoneberg, a third year medical student, has to leave his medical education midway for want of money as his wife becomes pregnant and later on trapped in the clutches of unethical medical practice. Adam finally succeeds in unravelling the mystery behind Arolem pharmaceuticals. They used to drug the docs and later perform psychological surgery on them aboard the ship(Fjord) which made them opt for the Julian Clinic. The Julian Clinic, CME on cruise and Arolen's research lab at Puerto Rico and rapid and unexplained surge in sells of Arolen drugs.