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Tess Gerritsen's HARVEST --- a well-paced medical thriller --- satisfies the need
"ER" initiated for more, more, more medical insider
knowledge. Gerritsen, a former internist, is the right person to deliver the
behind-the-scenes info, and she does it with satisfying speed and detail.
The basics: transplant surgeons at a Boston hospital are giving donor organs to wealthy
private patients instead of going through the proper channels and giving them to the
patients most in need. Where these organs are coming from is not too difficult
to determine --- the truth is absolutely horrifying.
The heroine is Abby DiMatteo, a second-year surgical resident at the fictional Bayside
Hospital. She's tapped by the hospital's cardiac transplant team (of which her
boyfriend is a member) as a potential recruit, even though she knows that the chief
resident, Vivian Chao, is considered the best.
But, she's told, Dr. Chao doesn't know how to play on a team --- she's too
independent. And supporting the team is of the utmost importance.
When Abby goes against the team by helping Dr. Chao get a car crash victim's healthy heart
to a dying teenage boy instead of the wife of a wealthy and powerful man, her career is in
jeopardy. And when she starts asking questions about a new heart that has
miraculously appeared for the wealthy patient, trouble pours down on Abby.
For a medical scare that forces you to consider ethics, money, power and trust, turn to
HARVEST.
--- Reviewed by Jennifer Levitsky
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