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Critical conditions

When an emergency call brings Dr. Alan Gregory to an ICU, he finds fifteen-year-old Merritt Strait recovering from a suicide attempt. Her stepsister, Chaney, already lies near death - after her managed care provider turned down an experimental treatment that could save her life. When a wealthy executive with the family's HMO is shot to death, Alan discovers shocking evidence linking Merritt to his killing.

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  • "When an emergency call brings Dr. Alan Gregory to an ICU, he finds fifteen-year-old Merritt Strait recovering from a suicide attempt. Her stepsister, Chaney, already lies near death - after her managed care provider turned down an experimental treatment that could save her life. When a wealthy executive with the family's HMO is shot to death, Alan discovers shocking evidence linking Merritt to his killing."@en
  • "Merritt Strait, a beautiful fifteen-year-old, lies in a hospital, survivor of a suicide attempt. Gregory, clinical psychologist and amateur sleuth, befriends the girl."
  • "Summoned to the hospital to learn the motives behind a teenage girl's suicide attempt, Alan discovers that the girl's young stepsister lies near death in another hospital with a heart disease. Denied an experimental new treatment that could save her life by her parent's managed-care provider, the stepsister has become a symbol of a health care system more concerned with costs than with the lives of its patients. And when a wealthy executive of the family's HMO is found dead, Alan and Denver detective Sam Purdy uncover the truth that links the teenage girl to his death, and the truth behind a family willing to kill in the name of love, and revenge."
  • "Alan works alone to discover the mystery surrounding the attempted suicide of a teenager whose younger sister has been refused experimental medical treatment by a health care provider, one of whose executives is later found dead."@en
  • "Alan Gregory is called to the ICU before anyone knows the patient's name or what drove her to attempt suicide. But Merritt is no ordinary teenager, her stepsister is at the heart of a medical tragedy in the making. Lives will be destroyed before Alan uncovers a shattering truth about how far people will go in the name of revenge ... and love."@en
  • "Alan Gregory is called to the ICU before anyone knows the patient's name or what drove her to attempt suicide. But Merritt is no ordinary teenager, her stepsister is at the heart of a medical tragedy in the making. Lives will be destroyed before Alan uncovers a shattering truth about how far people will go in the name of revenge ... and love."
  • "An HMO in Boulder, Colorado, refuses to pay for experimental treatment which might save a little girl with a heart ailment. When the HMO's director is murdered, suspicion falls on the girl's sister. Psychologist Alan Gregory investigates."@en
  • "Alan Gregory is called to the ICU before anyone knows what drove the patient to attempt suicide. But Merritt is no ordinary teenager-- her stepsister is at the heart of a medical tragedy."
  • "Summoned to the hospital to learn the motives behind a teenage girl's suicide attempt, Alan discovers that the girl's young stepsister lies near death in another hospital with a heart disease. Denied an experimental new treatment that could save her life by her parent's managed-care provider, the stepsister has become a symbol of a health care system more concerned with costs than with the lives of its patients. And when a wealthy executive of the family's HMO is found dead, Alan and Denver detective Sam Purdy uncover the truth that links the teenage girl to his death, and the truth behind a family willing to kill in the name of love...and revenge."
  • "Alan Gregory is called to the ICU before anyone knows the patient's name or what drove her to attempt suicide. But Merritt is no ordinary teenager, her stepsister is at the heart of a medical tragedy in the making. Lives will be destroyed before Alan uncovers a shattering truth about how far people will go in the name of revenge... and love."@en
  • "Psychologist Alan Gregory befriends a suicidal fifteen-year-old girl and her ill little sister, and when a high-level associate of the HMO that denied the child treatment with an experimental drug is murdered, he realizes that his patient is somehow involved."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Medical novels"
  • "Medical novels"@en
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  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Psychological fiction"
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  • "Critical Conditions"
  • "Critical conditions"
  • "Critical conditions"@en
  • "Critical conditions [MP3-talking book CD]"@en

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