Possible Clues:

• Robin Cook medical thriller
• Medically induced state, perhaps
• Result of going out?
• Prolonged unconsciousness leads to cessation of mental activity
• 1977 best seller set at Boston Memorial Hospital
• Mark loses heart in a state of stupor
• Michael Douglas film
• It may be hard to come out of
• Food ___ (post-feast feeling)
• Sleeper hit of 1978?