The Terminal Man

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton was about the neuropsychiatry section of a hospital doing a breakthrough surgery to help reverse the effects of psychomotor epilepsy. The patient's name was Harry Benson.

Harry Benson had psychomotor epilepsy because he hit his head in a car accident and it resulted in brain damage. Harry was a good subject for the operation because he was brilliant, being a computer programmer with top-level government security clearance. The type of epilepsy that he had caused him to black out for periods of time and during his blackouts he would become extremely violent and when he woke up he remembered nothing. The operation would involve the inserting of two electrodes into the brain along with a microcomputer in his neck and a plutonium power pack located under his shoulder.

Harry had his operation soon after he was admitted to the hospital. The operation took roughly three hours and in that time they drilled......

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Title: The Terminal Man
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