Critical conditions

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