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Book Review of Life Support

Life Support
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ER doctor Toby Harper's life revolves around her night shift at the hospital and days devoted to caring for her mother who has Altzheimers disease. After she treats two elderly men who come to the ER within days of each other, one mysteriously disappears and the other dies. Both men had lived in a very posh new nursing home where they had received youth-restoring harmone therapy. Dr. Harper begins to learn some frightening facts about what may have killed the men, and with the help of a new doctor on staff at the nursing home uncovers the fact that there have been other suspicious deaths. The county medical examiner, an attractive widower a few years older that Toby, gets involved in the mystery, which turns deadly for the new nursing home doctor and is almost fatal for Dr. Toby Harper. A little slow at first, this book turns into a real page-turner.