East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Host, Robin Cook

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Robin Cook

Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina's Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has everything figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death. Devastated by Carl's condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, she uses all her resources at the university--including her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender--to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice. What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals that are associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and serious and terminal illness contracted in the wake of routine hospital admissions. When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they're into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare and its partner, Sidereal Pharmaceuticals, can put a stop to their efforts once and for all

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