Former romance author and medical doctor Tess Gerritsen is writing in a new genre: medical suspense. Advertised as her "first novel," Harvestread full description
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Jan 26, 2012
Büşra
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Tess benim olmazsa olmaz yazarlarımdan,hani ne yazsa okurum,konuya bile bakmam dediklerimden.Bu kitabı gene güzeldi,gene birkaç saatte bitti.Belki çabuk bittiğindendir bilmiyorum ama şuan pek etkili gelmedi bana.Zaten Tess'in seri kitaplarını daha çok seviyorum sanırım,ordaki karakterlere alıştığımdan belki,yeni karakterlerine pek ısınamıyorum.
Tess güzel bir konu seçmiş,güzel de işlemiş.Gene birkaç hikaye üzerinden gitmiş ki bu kadının en sevdiğim yönlerinden biri bu, Siyahi bir doktor More...
Tess güzel bir konu seçmiş,güzel de işlemiş.Gene birkaç hikaye üzerinden gitmiş ki bu kadının en sevdiğim yönlerinden biri bu, Siyahi bir doktor More...
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Jun 26, 2011
Life Support, by Tess Gerritsen, b-plus, narrated by George Guidall, produced by Simon and Schuster Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
Audible.com has started the republishing of early mysteries by famous authors. This book is one of the early ones written by Gerritsen before she started her famous series. These books are usually still medical thrillers and feature a woman physician. In this book, Toby Harper is emergency room doctor on the night shift. A series of odd events and More...
Audible.com has started the republishing of early mysteries by famous authors. This book is one of the early ones written by Gerritsen before she started her famous series. These books are usually still medical thrillers and feature a woman physician. In this book, Toby Harper is emergency room doctor on the night shift. A series of odd events and More...
Nov 20, 2010
Jane
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I always appreciate medical thrillers written by real MD's. The medical references and scenarios are accurate. Toby Harper is an overworked MD. Her personal life includes a solitary existence with the exception of her mother with Alzheimers living in her home. Toby's world begins to unravel when she treats an elderly man admitted with strange symptoms. The patient mysteriously disappears while under Toby's care and she feels her life beginning to spiral out of her control as she fights her
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Dec 14, 2009
BarkLessWagMore
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This abridged recording begins when an underage prostitute is delivered to her client. She’s immediately put off by the sleazy location but plays along entering a white walled room filled only with a bright light and what appears to be a doctor’s examination table. She hops up on the table as instructed but is soon sucking in noxious fumes and knocked unconscious . . .
Next we meet Dr. Toby Harper who works the graveyard shift in the emergency room. One night an old man appears in the E More...
Next we meet Dr. Toby Harper who works the graveyard shift in the emergency room. One night an old man appears in the E More...
Oct 31, 2011
Marianne
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Life Support is the 10th stand-alone novel by Tess Gerritsen. Springer Hospital’s night-shift ER doctor, Toby Harper, finds her job is on the line when she literally loses a patient. The elderly man presents with confusion and apparent seizures, but while the ER staff are dealing with another emergency, the patient disappears. When another patient with identical symptoms, from the same exclusive residential community, with the same doctor, dies in the hospital, Toby wants to investigate further,
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Jun 15, 2011
Danni
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Gerritsen tells a captivating and thrilling story about an ER doctor caught in the middle of an experiment gone wrong in her novel Life Support. Toby Harper's life revolves around her late night ER shifts and looking after her mother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. While her life may not be going exactly to plan, she is on a clear path...until a patient is brought naked into her ER, confused and having isolated tremors...a patient that was completely lucid only a few weeks before. U
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Jun 07, 2009
Donna
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This was a fast paced medical thriller which I enjoyed.
When I first started reading it I wasn't sure because it seemed as if the author was just showing off their knowledge of medical procedures, but this doesn't carry on and the thriller aspect kicks in.
Basically there are very rich, elderly residents of a retirement home volunteering for experiments to prolong their lives, and at first this seems to be working, until they start dying of strange symptoms. It turns out that the do More...
When I first started reading it I wasn't sure because it seemed as if the author was just showing off their knowledge of medical procedures, but this doesn't carry on and the thriller aspect kicks in.
Basically there are very rich, elderly residents of a retirement home volunteering for experiments to prolong their lives, and at first this seems to be working, until they start dying of strange symptoms. It turns out that the do More...
Oct 23, 2011
Yas
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I've read 3 books so far by Gerritsen. Her other stand-alone 'Harvest' and the first of her Rizzoli & Isles series 'The surgeon' and can honestly say this book is not on par with them at all in terms of enjoyability/ likeable characters/ plot.
I hasten to add, it is a good book and deserving of 3 stars but just that. A 'good' book only. Nothing as gripping or fabulous as the other 2 I have read which I rated much higher (both 5 stars).
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I hasten to add, it is a good book and deserving of 3 stars but just that. A 'good' book only. Nothing as gripping or fabulous as the other 2 I have read which I rated much higher (both 5 stars).
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Aug 22, 2011
Michelle♥
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This was horrible for me.
I understand that this was a stand alone and was quite different from the Rizzoli & Isles series, but this was by far the worst I've read by her.
If I would have read this first and not the other series, I would have never picked any of her books up!
I hated the plot, the story itself, the characters were flat and dull, the ending was horrible, and just everything altogether for me was total yuck!
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I understand that this was a stand alone and was quite different from the Rizzoli & Isles series, but this was by far the worst I've read by her.
If I would have read this first and not the other series, I would have never picked any of her books up!
I hated the plot, the story itself, the characters were flat and dull, the ending was horrible, and just everything altogether for me was total yuck!
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Jan 28, 2012
Den
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This is a brilliant book that kept me up reading until late at night - so wish I hadn't got work the next day or I would have read through the night.
A patient comes into Dr Toby Harper's emergency room, then disappears as she is busy elsewhere. When another patient comes in displaying similar symptoms she begins to dig around and finds they comes from the same nursing complex. She is a busy woman as well as trying to work out the connection between these two old men she has to care for her More...
A patient comes into Dr Toby Harper's emergency room, then disappears as she is busy elsewhere. When another patient comes in displaying similar symptoms she begins to dig around and finds they comes from the same nursing complex. She is a busy woman as well as trying to work out the connection between these two old men she has to care for her More...
Jul 12, 2011
Thom
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I just finished Life Support and Tess Gerritsen has impressed me again with her knowledge of yet another aspect of medicine; geriatrics. She is a master at making the elevated world of medicine and doctors understandable to the masses. Her ability to create new characters and bring them to life is equaled with few and bettered by none. If I could voice one criticism it would be that she leaves her characters with their lives unresolved (no happily-ever-after endings) and leave it to the reader’s
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May 10, 2011
Aunty Janet
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'Life Support' is a fast moving medical thriller that stars Dr Toby Harper, a (female) doctor working in a small community hospital. When one of Dr Harper's patients vanishes mysteriously from the hospital and another dies of an unusual viral disease, she sets out to try and find out exactly what is going on. However, someone doesn't want Toby to find out the truth, and will do anything in their power to stop her.
The book is gripping and a real page turner. It is also horribly gruesome! I More...
The book is gripping and a real page turner. It is also horribly gruesome! I More...
Sep 06, 2009
Bob
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A medical thriller with night shift ER Dr. Toby Harper facing caring for her mother with Altzheimers and growing discontent at work. There is another DR. who is trying to discredit her , a patient disappears from the ER while she is drawn to an more dire trauma and her growing suspicions that all is not right with a DR and his patients from a care facility for the super rich. Her investigations create more problems for her and threaten her job. I will leave the rest up to you to read about in
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Jul 30, 2011
This book ended up as a decent read, although it was far from my favorite Gerritsen book. It started out very slow, and for a while I just couldn't figure out where it was going. The ending brought everything together even though the climax was a bit lackluster. All in all, I did like the book and I thought the characters were well flushed out. A good medical thriller with a plot that left me wondering if it could indeed actually happen. Not my favorite from Gerritsen, but certainly worth t
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May 26, 2011
Anne
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Actually, I didn't read it. I started it, but I couldn't finish it. I'm going to have to write to the Goodreads people and ask them to make a new shelf for books like this one. I tried. I did. Usually, I like Tess Gerritsen books. But this one had too many things in it that I couldn't stand: graphic descriptions (too graphic) of things such as surgeries, a rape, and human genitalia; weird/unnatural science; I could go on. But I won't. The long and short of it is that I won't try this boo
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Oct 18, 2011
Seif
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if the heroine from Harvest could meet the star of Life Support for a cup of coffee. Picture them together, the amazed looks on their faces as they realize how much they have in common! Both are talented female hospital based physicians who find out that an evil cabal of doctors is wreaking havoc on the health of patients. And, in both cases our protagonists digging into their affairs do not amuse the dastardly doctors.
Toby and her new found friend discover that a f More...
Toby and her new found friend discover that a f More...
Dec 26, 2011
Marjolein
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READ IN DUTCH
I had heard a lot about Tess Gerritsen, but I had never read anything written by her before I read 'Harvest / Life Support'. It was also the first time I read a 'medical thriller', a genre which made me curious.
First Harvest. Abby gets a job by a very important transplantteam but she fell into disstatisfaction by the others when she decides to give a new heart to an uninsured boy instead of an insured woman. Then suddenly there is a new heart available for the w More...
I had heard a lot about Tess Gerritsen, but I had never read anything written by her before I read 'Harvest / Life Support'. It was also the first time I read a 'medical thriller', a genre which made me curious.
First Harvest. Abby gets a job by a very important transplantteam but she fell into disstatisfaction by the others when she decides to give a new heart to an uninsured boy instead of an insured woman. Then suddenly there is a new heart available for the w More...
Aug 26, 2009
Allison
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Gerritsen's second book, a stand alone story. A mystery with the right amount of suspense. It's probably not intended in the book, but it reaffirms my desire to stay way the heck away from hospitals or any medical procedure that is not truly life or death. And the ending was a little too heroine-gets-rescued-just-in-the-nick-of-time not real life but still satisfying. I also like how Gerritsen is so obviously comfortable with medical language (which she should be as she's an MD) and uses it
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Jan 21, 2009
Stacy
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I picked up this book at a library sale as I had read one or two by the author before and enjoyed them. They are a good change of pace from the light, Christian or women's fiction I normally read.
I am going to count this book towards one of my reading challenges - the What's in a Name 2 challenge, I am going to use this book for the "Medical Condition" entry.
This book follows Dr. Toby Harper, a suburban Boston ER doctor. She gets an ER visit from an elderly man More...
I am going to count this book towards one of my reading challenges - the What's in a Name 2 challenge, I am going to use this book for the "Medical Condition" entry.
This book follows Dr. Toby Harper, a suburban Boston ER doctor. She gets an ER visit from an elderly man More...
Mar 09, 2009
LJ
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LIFE SUPPORT (Med. Thriller-Toby Harper-Boston-cont) - Ex
Gerritsen, Tess - Standalone
From Fantastic Fiction: When an elderly patient with a critical, viral infection of the brain mysteriously vanishes from the emergency room, ER resident Toby Harper finds her job and home life coming under intense scrutiny, while her research for the missing patient uncovers a frightening epidemic and nightmarish conspiracy.
1997 Honorable Mention- Great suspense, medically creepy.
Gerritsen, Tess - Standalone
From Fantastic Fiction: When an elderly patient with a critical, viral infection of the brain mysteriously vanishes from the emergency room, ER resident Toby Harper finds her job and home life coming under intense scrutiny, while her research for the missing patient uncovers a frightening epidemic and nightmarish conspiracy.
1997 Honorable Mention- Great suspense, medically creepy.
Nov 14, 2011
Everybookhasasoul
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Tess Gerritsen is one of my favourite authors within this genre. I seem to go through every emotion when I am reading one of her novels. I have had to stop books before as I was in the house myself and the house started to creak.
I love how she brings her medical knowledge to her books and I find this makes them unique and stand out in a genre where a lot of books are published. The medical references and scenes within the novel as brought to life through this medical knowledge and I More...
I love how she brings her medical knowledge to her books and I find this makes them unique and stand out in a genre where a lot of books are published. The medical references and scenes within the novel as brought to life through this medical knowledge and I More...
Oct 11, 2010
Jenny
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I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Last night I went to bed at 2am and couldn't wait to finish listening to this story. Tess Gerritsen has written a wonderful story entwining seemlingly unrelated characters to have it all blend together at the end to where the clarity made all the pieces fall into place. This was a dreadful recording, where I had the 'tape' drop out many times, probably about 150 times in all, so I thought that perhaps the unrelated aspects weren't even from the same book, but it
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Jan 11, 2011
Heather
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I like Tess Gerritsen a lot. I like that her books are factual because of her medical background, yet still readable with good storylines. I just read in the synopsis of the book that this is considered a "romance" novel. I would not categorize it that way. There is some sort of romance trying to happen throughout the book, but is very anticlimatic when all is said and done.
I heart medical mysteries. The end.
I heart medical mysteries. The end.
May 14, 2011
Tracy
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This novel, to me, was slow at first but didn't take a long time to pick up the pace. I started reading one day and two days later I was finished. Toby was a fascinating, anoying and head strong character. At times you wanted to tell her to just give up that it wasn't any of her concern anyway but what if everyone did that. You will have to read the book to know what I am talking about. A very easy read.
Feb 21, 2011
Gooddeeds
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This is a great book, a quick read because I wanted to know what happened!
I really felt Toby's frustration when everything was turning against her and pretty soon no-one gave her the benefit of the doubt. And you really want to smack the smug bad guys! We knew she'd be proved right at the end of course but it still gets you turning the pages.
donated to the British Heart Foundation in South Shields.
I really felt Toby's frustration when everything was turning against her and pretty soon no-one gave her the benefit of the doubt. And you really want to smack the smug bad guys! We knew she'd be proved right at the end of course but it still gets you turning the pages.
donated to the British Heart Foundation in South Shields.
Nov 30, 2007
Lain
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If you reach for a Tess Gerritsen novel, you know what you're going to get -- a psychological thriller cloaked in enough medical terminology to have you sounding like an ER doc, with some graphic blood-and-guts scenes thrown in for good measure. While Gerritsen's books are not for the faint of heart, they are well-plotted and well-written, with strong characters and plenty of action. Because they're all written from that recipe, they do tend to run together, and "Life Support" is anoth
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Dec 23, 2011
Sarah
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This book did not near meet what I was hoping for. I was expecting a medical thriller like Gerritsen's other book Harvest. This book really fell short which is a shame bc Gerritsen is a great medical writer. I read to page 360 and could not finish the book because i found it to be such a bunch of malarky. (the book finishes on page 369, and i highly doubt that i missed very much)
Nov 06, 2011
Sandy
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With respect to showing us the pitfalls (and potential benefits) of medical breakthroughs, Tess Gerritsen's books remind me of Robin Cooks'. I like being able to see the references in the back of the book for some of the research this author read prior to the writing of this book. Great story. I was lost at first switching back and forth and then it all made sense. Thought-provoking.
Jan 13, 2012
Kate
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I'm a huge fan of Gerritsen, and I don't know if it's because this was one of her earlier books, or if I just didn't connect with the main character, but I didn't really love it. It could be that I read this mostly while waiting around my Mom's hospital bed, and it deals with shady doctors and horrific medical experiments. Life Support is just not the book I would suggest to a first time Gerritsen reader, but I will gladly work my way through her body of work.
