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Harvest
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I can't believe I read this in less than 24 hours. All 344 pages! This story was so good and so fast-paced, I couldn't stop.
Tess Gerritsen, like another favorite of mine Robin Cook, is a physician so writing a medical mystery comes natural to her.
Dr. Abby DiMatteo is a second year resident at Boston's Bayside Hospital. After 4 years of college and 4 years of medical school, she is finally getting to do what she longed to do since losing her beloved little brother as a child- surgery. She is also living with forty-something surgeon Mark Hodell who also works at Bayside.
I really liked the character of Abby. She is the kind of person you'd like to have as your doctor and your friend. Ditto for Dr.Vivian Chao . Dr. Chao works in the 5th year residency with clinic patients who are uninsured and while she's not the openly warm and fuzzy type, you can see her heart for the poor and uninsured. She is smart as a whip and has very fast hands in surgery. These two women are great characters.
Problems erupt when a woman who is AB positive is left brain dead after an accident where a drunken idiot crashes head on into her while driving down the wrong side of the road. The heart really should go to the person at the top of the transplant list which is a teen boy under Dr. Chao's care. Instead, a rich and vindictive SOB named Victor Voss tries to purchase the heart right out from under the boy for his dying 46 year old wife Nina Voss (the only person on the planet who can stand him and not that much!).
The hospital admin is going along with the sale . Vivian is watching the boy code over and over. Finally, she transfers him to Mass General. She sends Abby to the husband of the woman who the heart is being harvested from to sign a directed donation giving the heart to the boy. The man signs and then Abby is sent in an ambulance to courier the heart to the other hospital. The hospital director tries to get the ambulance back but she gets there and the heart is implanted and the boy is saved.
Meanwhile, the hospital administrator, the transplant director, the lawyer, and the head of the residency program are royally pissed and Abby must face them. Vivian has been fired but since she has already done her residency, she can just get a job in a practice. Abby is just a second year resident and barely manages to hold on to her job.
A furious Victor Voss wants to see heads roll. The main head he wants to see roll is Abby's and as the 14th richest man in America, he can afford to see it happen. First, he has a Russian boy murdered for his heart for Nina then takes out in a reign of terror after Abby. When Abby finds her fiance Mark is involved and the Russian Mafia are transporting orphans to murder to harvest for body parts, she hooks up with the detective investigating her- Detective Katzka- for the ride of her life.
Tess Gerritsen, like another favorite of mine Robin Cook, is a physician so writing a medical mystery comes natural to her.
Dr. Abby DiMatteo is a second year resident at Boston's Bayside Hospital. After 4 years of college and 4 years of medical school, she is finally getting to do what she longed to do since losing her beloved little brother as a child- surgery. She is also living with forty-something surgeon Mark Hodell who also works at Bayside.
I really liked the character of Abby. She is the kind of person you'd like to have as your doctor and your friend. Ditto for Dr.Vivian Chao . Dr. Chao works in the 5th year residency with clinic patients who are uninsured and while she's not the openly warm and fuzzy type, you can see her heart for the poor and uninsured. She is smart as a whip and has very fast hands in surgery. These two women are great characters.
Problems erupt when a woman who is AB positive is left brain dead after an accident where a drunken idiot crashes head on into her while driving down the wrong side of the road. The heart really should go to the person at the top of the transplant list which is a teen boy under Dr. Chao's care. Instead, a rich and vindictive SOB named Victor Voss tries to purchase the heart right out from under the boy for his dying 46 year old wife Nina Voss (the only person on the planet who can stand him and not that much!).
The hospital admin is going along with the sale . Vivian is watching the boy code over and over. Finally, she transfers him to Mass General. She sends Abby to the husband of the woman who the heart is being harvested from to sign a directed donation giving the heart to the boy. The man signs and then Abby is sent in an ambulance to courier the heart to the other hospital. The hospital director tries to get the ambulance back but she gets there and the heart is implanted and the boy is saved.
Meanwhile, the hospital administrator, the transplant director, the lawyer, and the head of the residency program are royally pissed and Abby must face them. Vivian has been fired but since she has already done her residency, she can just get a job in a practice. Abby is just a second year resident and barely manages to hold on to her job.
A furious Victor Voss wants to see heads roll. The main head he wants to see roll is Abby's and as the 14th richest man in America, he can afford to see it happen. First, he has a Russian boy murdered for his heart for Nina then takes out in a reign of terror after Abby. When Abby finds her fiance Mark is involved and the Russian Mafia are transporting orphans to murder to harvest for body parts, she hooks up with the detective investigating her- Detective Katzka- for the ride of her life.
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Reading Progress
July 4, 2012
– Shelved
August 5, 2012
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Started Reading
August 5, 2012
– Shelved as:
fiction
August 5, 2012
– Shelved as:
mystery-suspense-thrillers
August 6, 2012
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Finished Reading
