Title: Critical conditions
First published: 1998
Description: Summoned to the hospital to learn the motives behind a teenage girl's suicide attempt, psychologist Alan Gregory 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Teenage girls, Suicidal behavior, Managed care plans (Medical care), Alan Gregory (Fictitious character), Sisters, Forensic psychology, Clinical psychologists, Psychologists, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Colorado, fiction, Gregory, alan (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, medical, Boulder (colo.), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Sisters, fiction
Places: Boulder, Boulder (Colo.), Colorado