Michael Palmer "Side Effects"

Author: Michael Palmer Title: Side Effects Genre: Medical thriller Year of first publication: 1984 Description: A patient at a Boston hospital is diagnosed with unusual bleeding and ovarian degeneration. Despite attempts to save her, the woman dies. Shortly thereafter, a woman found on the street is brought to another hospital, where she dies from the same cause. A coincidence? A young pathologist, Dr. Kate Bennett, launches a private investigation. The case becomes more complicated when her friend is admitted to the hospital with similar symptoms. Will the young doctor manage to save her friend? Will she uncover a conspiracy? What do these events have in common with experiments conducted 40 years earlier in one of the concentration camps? This book provides the answers to these questions. I highly recommend it :)