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Summary: Harvest Revisted ... but a good read none-the-less
Review: I enjoyed this story of Dr. Toby Harper ... even if it did remind me a bit too much of Harvest, one of Gerritsen's first books. Highly successful women doctors. Everyone turns against them. Their medical careers are going to be ruined. Yadda Yadda.
But, it's still a good story. Toby sees a series of weird elderly patients with unusual symptoms ... and in trying to get to the bottom of it, annoys some pretty powerful people - both at her hospital and at an elitist retirement community. We watch Toby investigating what's going on around her - see friends and family turn against her as she is falsely accused of abusing her alzheimers-suffering mother. What exactly is going on with this retirement community? Why have so many of their members met with death recently?
Only Dr. Toby Harper can find the truth ... but will it be in time?
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Summary: Held my attention from beginning to end
Review: I am reviewing this book in its ABRIDGED format of only two tapes. This abridged recording begins when an underage prostitute is delivered to her client. She's immediately put off by the sleazy location but plays along entering a white walled room filled only with a bright light and what appears to be a doctor's examination table. She hops up on the table as instructed but is soon sucking in noxious fumes and knocked unconscious . . . Next we meet Dr. Toby Harper who works the graveyard shift in the emergency room. One night an old man appears in the ER with no apparent illness besides a penchant for stripping off his clothes in public and a bit of disorientation. As Toby goes about examining him his leg starts to twitch. She's called out on another call and when she returns he has disappeared and Toby is held responsible. Soon another old man arrives (who was, coincidentally, living in the same fancy retirement community as the first mystery man) with similar symptoms but this man dies. Toby is suspicious, orders an autopsy and does some snooping around on her own when she is met with unreasonable resistance to her questions. It seems that some experimentation with prolonging life has been going on at the retirement home with frightening side effects. When Toby eventually discovers a bit of what has been going on her own life becomes endangered. This was an interesting medical thriller with an engaging protagonist but once Tape 2 begins the abridgement becomes very apparent. Events begin to happen fast and furiously and characterization is minimal. For the most part, the cuts necessary for this abridgement are smooth but I did find myself left a bit confused on more than one occasion and would've loved to have gotten to know all of the players a bit better. If I stumble across an uncut version of "Life Support" I'll definitely check it out to read all that I missed.
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Summary: good medical thriller
Review: If you enjoy medical thrillers, then you should like this book. Dr. Toby Harper works the ER night shift and admits a patient who is delirious and has tremors that are uncontrollable. She is interrupted by another emergency and when she returns to her patient he is gone. Then other patients turn up with similar symptoms and deaths and Toby is worried there is an epidemic starting, but when she tries to investigate, she is blocked, and then problems at home arise with the health of her mother who has alzheimers disease. It looks like her mother was being poisened. She is put on the police's suspect list. Keeps you interested till the end.
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Summary: Full of Suspense
Review: This is a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time. Dr. Toby Harper starts to see a pattern of elderly patients all showing the same type of symptoms.. They're all acting as if they have Alzheimers even though their families swear that they were in the best of health in the previous week. Once she realizes what is going on, everyone begins to turn against her and she finds herself running from the law. If you have read any Robin Cook books, you notice that this one is very, very similar to one of his books. It was a good read nonetheless.
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