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108 Days.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: Small Press Bookwatch
Date: Saturday, April 1 2006

108 Days

Lisa Lindell

March 5 Publishing

PO Box 57491, Webster, TX 77598

0976767309 $24.95 www.108days.com

108 Days is a true story of the tragically unnecessary struggle for survival of a critical injury patient at the hands of an arrogant medical staff and the patronizing treatment endured from a hostile hospital administration told from the perspective of the patient Curtis Lindell's wife Lisa. Readers will be appalled as they learn how Curtis' fire accident injuries escalates to a coma and infecti

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