Medical Fiction

El prestigioso neurocirujano David Evans se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Para el Dr. Evans se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás cuando descubre que el paciente que debe morir para que su hija pueda vivir no es otro que el presidente de Los Estados Unidos. Con su maestría habitual en la literatura de intriga, Juan Gómez-Jurado atrapa al oyente irremediablemente.

Plunged into a free for all lifestyle with survival of the fittest the only law, it would be easy for Cole Evans and his family to remain in short-term survival mode, living in the moment. But, Cole refuses to lose his conscience - his humanity - and won't stop fighting for a better future.

The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue. With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the...

Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s New York. It is a ground's-eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, the bad cops, the unhinged medics, the hopeless patients, the dark humor in bizarre circumstances, and one medic's struggle to balance his desire to help against his own growing callousness. This story features lives that hang in the balance, including a single job with a misdiagnosed newborn that sends Cross and his partner into a life-changing struggle between good and evil.

Einem Team von Wissenschaftlern um den Milliardär John Hammond ist Sensationelles gelungen: Sie habe 15 Saurierarten neu gezüchtet...

A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Wade gets called to a murder scene that shares uncanny similarities to those of the late Michael Rhodes. Other similar killings happen around Seattle, and Wade seems to be the only person still alive who knows enough about Michael Rhodes’s murders to be able to replicate them. When evidence found at one of the crime scenes points to Wade as the killer, he races to find the real culprit before it’s too late to clear his own name.

When tragedy strikes, some lives are changed forever—but others are given a chance to fight.

An ICU doctor in one of Seattle's most respected hospitals, Dr. Charlotte Reese is used to listening for the chop of the Medvac helicopter and preparing for the worst. But when a Jane hurtles through the doors of Beacon Hospital with tubes keeping her alive, Charlotte's stoic resolve begins to fail her and she becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery of her patient's identity to solve what is looking more and more like an attempted murder.

Nineteen-year-old innocent Laura is becoming more productive as she transforms into a hucow, and she’s about to find out that nothing is off-limits as she satisfies all the Dominant Doctor's deviant urges—and her own.

Dr. Jack Wyatt is renowned for solving the unsolvable. When a colleague approaches him about a dangerous new malady affecting only Leukemia patients at a prestigious oncology hospital, the mysterious case is too intriguing to pass up. So he and the brilliant Dr. Madison Shaw, a physician who shares not only his expertise but also his devotion to medicine, embark in a race against time to save the children as cases mount. Within the hospital walls, they confront a labyrinth of medical conundrums, hostile colleagues guarding their territory, and a web of political intrigue.

A gorgeous bodyguard to protect me. Only problem is, I'm a Little.... Pop star Carter Lawson is about to go on the biggest tour of her career when disaster strikes - she gets a threat from a stalker. Her management company hire Angel Kennedy, a brooding, tattooed, alpha, who just happens to be the best bodyguard in the business. Angel's got to keep that hot bod of his close to Carter all day and all night. She's terrified that Angel's going to discover her secret - that she wears diapers 24/7.

George est radiologue, spécialité qu'il a choisie car il n'aime pas particulièrement le contact avec ses patients. Il a contribué à la création de l'iDoc, un smartphone qui permet d'ausculter en direct le patient, 24 heures sur 24, et de lui délivrer diagnostics et ordonnances. Un petit bijou, qui permettrait de réduire les coûts de santé aux USA de façon spectaculaire. Mais c'est trop beau pour être vrai. Quand, après sa petite amie, c'est son meilleur ami qui meurt sans raison, il se pose des questions.

2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist For readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman’s role in preserving—or destroying—her famous father’s legacy. In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me. He...

A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation. Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he...

Après avoir écrit sur le système de santé, la mort et sur la médecine elle-même, le docteur Alain Vadeboncœur a eu envie de relaxer un peu et de partager les moments étranges et cocasses qui ponctuent sa vie à l'urgence. Avec la sensibilité qu'on lui connaît, il raconte les petits travers des gens du métier (et les siens !), les rencontres loufoques, les contrastes étonnants entre certains drames et leurs répercussions insolites... et même comment son préfacier, le comédien et réalisateur Simon Olivier Fecteau, a un jour tenté de le tuer.

A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains. The chief surgeon performs a C-section and delivers a catastrophically malformed foetus that is somehow alive.... Sewage engineer Gemma is plunged into a ghostly darkness in the tunnel where she works. She escapes, but her boss goes missing in the chaos. He is later found alive...but his legs have been severed and his eyes pulled out.

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo hopes an extended cruise on the Indian Ocean with his girlfriend and his son will salve the wounds of the rough times they’ve been weathering at home. As they set sail coddled in unaccustomed luxury on the Coral Dynasty, things below deck are a little less sunny for the ship’s physician.

Cassy’s been flirting with sexy older Doctor Scott ever since she turned eighteen, but when the even sexier Doctor Connor joins them, her intimate exam gets a whole lot more interesting. Explored by two dominant doctors who aren't afraid to cross the lines, she’s spanked, tied, and thoroughly stretched by both Daddies, before willingly losing her innocence as she has a whole lot of double fun.

When nineteen-year-old Laura is sent to an experimental medical clinic to become a productive member of society, she doesn't realize just how embarrassingly productive she’s about to become. Under the strict regime of the Dominant Doctors, what will happen to innocent Laura as she begins to transform in creamy new ways?

She’s bigger and more productive than ever, and she desperately needs relief. But will Annabelle, the eighteen-year-old new hucow, really say yes to everything the dominant Daddy Doctor wants to do to her? Cleansed, creamy, leaking, and ready, what will happen when the other doctors come to examine her too?