Medical Fiction

Edmund Harkins has gone missing. Few in Bampton liked him, knowing him to be a wife-beater and distinctly unsavory character, so when some hungry pigs unearth his corpse from a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief. As bailiff, it is Hugh de Singleton’s duty to bring Edmund’s killer to justice. But where is he to start investigating when almost everyone in the village has a motive? And when everyone is pleased to see the scoundrel dead, who knows how far they might go to help someone get away with murder?

Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital. Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, as she and her fellow trainees deal with the common and the bizarre, the hilarious and the tragic, the treatable and the confronting.

At one of the most advanced hospitals in the country, a revolutionary AI system called VARIANT is changing the face of radiology. Trained on vast troves of clinical data, it promises near-perfect diagnoses, lower costs, and faster care. To hospital leadership, it’s a miracle. To the public, it’s the future. But beneath the surface, something isn’t right. A veteran radiology technician begins noticing discrepancies—scans that don’t match symptoms, metadata that doesn’t line up, patients who deteriorate despite clean reports.

Having shown courage and strength on the battlefield, Will and Grace are back in the UK and working at the cutting edge of modern medicine. At every turn, they see a country in flux. The postwar years are heady and unpredictable. Many of their contemporaries are following serious paths, committing to causes of the day—workers' rights, votes for women, an independent Ireland. Others seek refuge in more earthly and bohemian pleasures. But as young parents and practising medics, they have—more than anything—duties of care and compassion that cannot be ignored.

Повесть "Раковый корпус" была задумана А.И. Солженицыным в 1954 году, в Ташкенте, где он проходил лечение в онкологическом отделении больницы. Однако замысел ждал своего воплощения почти десять лет.

When 18-year-old Kelly decides to fulfill her secret fantasy and tempt the gorgeous Dr. Daniel into giving her a deeply intimate medical exam, little does she know that the sexy, older doctor is hiding forbidden desires of his own. He’s a dominant Daddy and having her ripe, juicy body strapped to his examination table is temptation beyond measure and he can’t control himself.

It’s a long way from a basement apartment in a Montréal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that’s the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing listeners with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where he’ll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day.

New Orleans has been quarantined, an unknown virus sweeping the city, killing 100 percent of those infected. The Center for Disease Control, desperate to find a cure, is approached by BioDyne Pharma who reveal a former employee has turned a cutting-edge medical treatment capable of targeting specific genetic sequences into a weapon, and released it.

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling...

Am I crazy for agreeing to an arranged marriage with two older men in this remote Pioneer Town? I’m nineteen and inexperienced and yet when my new Daddy doms use strict domestic discipline and the dominant Doctor gives me a humiliating medical examination—I can't help begging for more.

Monday, Kierk wakes up. Once a rising star in neuroscience, Kierk Suren is now homeless and broken by his all-consuming quest to find a scientific theory of consciousness. When he’s offered a spot in a prestigious postdoctoral program, he decides to rejoin society and vows not to self-destruct again. Instead of focusing on his work, however, Kierk becomes obsessed with another project—investigating the sudden and suspicious death of a colleague.

Best friends from college. Plus-ones since med school. A chance for something new... Jace Crawford heals hearts for a living. More than that, medicine is his life. To become the leading cardiothoracic surgeon on the West Coast, he’s made sacrifices. No social life. He barely has time to sleep. Love? Forget about it. But when everything goes horribly wrong on his table, and he unexpectedly loses a patient, Jace is suspended from work. When a man has nothing but his job, what does he do when that’s gone?

New nurse Elizabeth Fletcher is excited to be finally following the career of her dreams, even if it will only be for a few months. When she begins work at the Corrine Ann Pettrone Medical Center (CAPMED) in Chicago, she quickly realizes that she jumped in too deep. She loves the hospital environment, but things start to feel too real, too fast. Dating Chad Hawthorne, her wealthy boyfriend of five years, Liz always believed she could have love and a career. Yet, when she accepts Chad’s marriage proposal, all bets are off.

The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See). Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes...

She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Cat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Cat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman without mercy or apparent motive. The police are sceptical. The mayor won't listen. And Cat's chief suspect is one of the city's most prominent citizens.

Nurse Maggie Southerland is devastated when her husband is found dead in their home. At first, it appears to be an overdose, but the autopsy reveals a darker story. He was killed with a potent paralytic drug used in surgery – one that leaves victims conscious yet unable to move, slowly suffocating them in silence.

Судмедэксперт Сергей Саблин – человек кристально честный, бескомпромиссный, но, при этом, слишком прямолинейный – многим кажется грубым, с тяжелым характером.

En sygeplejerske bliver fundet død på togskinnerne, efter at hun har sagt op på hospitalet. Mange tvivler på, at Lotta skulle have begået selvmord. Hun virkede altid så glad, elskede sit job og var vellidt af sine kolleger. Rygterne svirrer på hospitalet, og snart er Lottas død ikke den eneste mærkelige død. Andreas føler sig stadig mere presset på arbejdet, og risikoen for alvorlige medicinske fejl øges. Da ulykken endelig sker, får den fatale konsekvenser.

Судмедэксперт Сергей Саблин решился на переезд в Северогорск, где ему обещано место в отделении судебно-гистологической экспертизы Бюро СМЭ. Саблин осваивается на новом месте, знакомится с коллегами и приходит в ужас от того, насколько не налажена работа его отделения: несколько месяцев подряд заключения передавались в суд без результатов гистологии! Конечно, это привело к экспертным и судебным ошибкам… Сумеет ли Сергей закрыть глаза на вопиющие нарушения в работе северогорского Бюро?

Cuando Carlos Manso, magnate de la comunicación y símbolo del poder mediático en España, muere en circunstancias escandalosas, se desata una tormenta que salpica a periodistas, jueces, forenses, sus herederas y figuras clave del poder en España. Lo que comienza como una muerte trágica y sensacionalista pronto revela una compleja red de secretos, chantajes, abusos y encubrimientos. En medio de ese maremoto, el carismático y asocial forense Santi Munárriz se enfrenta a uno de los momentos más complicados de su carrera… y de su vida.