Michael Palmer (novelist)

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 (1991), was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.

9 October 1942

Born on the same birth day (9 October): Alan Nunnelee • Brian Roberts (baseball) • Edward Bok • Fabio Lione • Gonzalo Sorondo • Gordon J. Humphrey • John Entwistle • Joseph Friedman • Maria Filotti • O. V. Wright

Born in the same month (October 1942): Anita Roddick • Bart Zoet • Bob Ross • Fred Travalena • Lee Clayton • Rafael Cordero Santiago • Robert Lelièvre • Stanley Bates • Terence Donovan (actor) • The Smiley Company