Medical Science Fiction

Most people run from disasters, but for people like Jake it's your job to get to one as fast as you can. This time he is not so sure he wants to go. A major global pandemic is going on and a major hurricane has just hit the Gulf Coast. To make matters worse, the government is forcing the evacuees back to the storm stricken cities or placing them in isolation and quarantine. His chances of helping others or becoming a casualty himself have just taken a turn for the worse as the U.S. declares martial law for a storm ravaged coast.

A paramedic, a legendary Amazon, and a ruthless trafficking gang. When supernatural paramedic Dean Flynn saves a patient terrorized by a werepanther gang, he uncovers a ring of shifters smuggling Unusual women and girls through Elk City. When his just-rescued patient disappears from the safety of the hospital, Dean must find her and the other lost victims. Seeking help from his demon-hunter wife, Jaz Errington, Dean teams up with an Amazon Interpol agent. When the stakes turn personal, they risk everything to uncover the gang behind the trafficking ring.

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents 15 edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, MD, shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.

Dr. Raymond Damadian was plagued with a mysterious and persistent stomach pain, yet physicians assured him that they could find nothing wrong. To find the answer to his ailment, Damadian would spend the ensuing twelve years building a machine that would change medicine. Nuclear magnetic resonance scanning, now called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), was a revolution: A safe means to determine the makeup of every cell in the human body, distinguishing healthy cells from sick.

Joanna Errington-Flynn is a normal 15-year-old, except that she's a witch from the future. Since she was sent back from her parents' future, she has saved both their lives and the world itself. Now she wants nothing more than to return home to her own time. When a pair of demon-summoning idols goes missing, her mother needs Jo's help to recover them. If the demon lord succeeds in his plans to collect the complete set, Elk City is doomed.

A group of women gather at a fertility clinic, where Dr. Margherita Dumas offers a revolutionary treatment for their infertility problems. A year later, each of them gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Thirty years later, a killer begins to wipe out the children born as a result of Dumas’ programme. Detective Inspector Harry Houston is assigned to piece together the case and bring the killer to justice. But with little time and even less clues, can Harry and his team find the link between the past and the deaths of the progeny of Clinique Sobel?

Eine junge Wissenschaftlerin stürzt von einem Hochhaus in Boston. Detective Vince Brickle ermittelt und stößt rasch auf eine Reihe von Ungereimtheiten: Die Tote forschte am Virologischen Institut an einem wichtigen Projekt und stand kurz vor dem Durchbruch. Zusammen mit dem Virologen Frank findet Vince heraus, dass die Wissenschaftlerin ein neues gefährliches Virus so manipuliert hat, dass es als tödliche und zielgerichtete Waffe eingesetzt werden kann. Plötzlich finden sich die beiden im Zentrum eines Wettstreits zwischen Forschung, US-Militär und einem chinesischen Pharmakonzern wieder.

A sorceress from the future tries to change the past. Supernatural paramedic, Dean Flynn, discovers his actions to prevent Armageddon altered the future of humanity. A time-traveling sorceress holds the key to save the world. But he'll have to battle his way through angels and demons. Can Dean rally his friends to locate the artifacts that will restore the future? Or will the forces of darkness enslave mankind forever?

One paramedic, four horsemen, and the end of the world. Dean Flynn sees himself as just a normal paramedic, despite the fact he treats the hidden supernatural creatures inhabiting Elk City. Now, he’s about to make the most important decision of his adult life, but his missing father returns and turns things upside down all over again. Now, Dean has to deal with a city falling apart around him while trying to stop the end of the world. Will he defeat the four horsemen of the apocalypse and send the demons back to hell once and for all, or is he destined to start Armageddon on his own?

Certain Cure: Where Science Meets Religion, chronicles the life of 3 generations of the Cummings family; Claire, a woman in her 70s who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Helene, her television journalist daughter, and Justin, the teenage grandson whose adoration of his “Grams” leads him to discover the dark secret behind the miracle technology that is not only curing Claire of her cancer, but tempting his mother with eternal youth, as traditional medical industries wage war against the mysterious doctor from China who threatens them all.

After their treacherous trip from Utah to California, Matt, Jessica and their friends can finally take a breath. The Miller’s farm in the San Joaquin Valley seems like the perfect place to create a new home. That is, until they find out what the Emperors are up to.

More mockery. More mayhem. More murder. Your favorite homicidal forensic pathologist Dr. Beckett Campbell is back! And this time, it appears that he might have someone on his side, someone who understands him, someone who has his back no matter what. But there is no such thing as a free lunch, nor are there drugs without side-effects. Before he can wrap his head around what, exactly, he's gotten into, Beckett finds himself tangled in a messy web of lies, deceit, and most importantly of all, relationship troubles.

Paramedic Dean Flynn works every day to heal the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. When a human hate group declares war on his patients, Dean, with his angel girlfriend and the vampire lord of Elk City, must work with all the forces of good to fight terrorists hidden in their midst. Even after getting framed for murder, Dean uses magic, prophecy, and all his paramedic skills to save his patients. With his lifelong dreams shattered and taken away from him, will he have the strength to make the choice when the time comes to fulfill his destiny?

Just in time for Halloween here is a story of a Cajun women who is not in touch with reality but with her Deity Majamba, who she calls upon to kill all those who have harmed her and are not having her committed to the local state hospital. Or is it, as it may all be a dream. This is a story for those who like a twist at the end.

Anton Çehov tarafından yazılan kısa hikaye “6. Koğuş”, 1892 yılında “Palata No.6” adıyla Rusça basılmıştır. Küçük bir kasabada yer alan bir akıl hastanesinde geçen hikaye, İvan Gromov adındaki bir hastayla hastane müdürü Andrey Ragin arasındaki felsefi çatışmayı konu alır. Gromov gördüğü her türlü adaletsizliği açık ederken, Dr. Ragin bu adaletsizlikleri ve kötü muameleleri göz ardı etmekte ısrarcıdır; hatta bu tavrı yüzünden, akıl hastalarının olduğu koğuşun kötü şartlarını da görmezden gelmeye çalışır.

When you've raised the dead, battled vampires and werewolves, and passed the Boards, what do you do for an encore? In his final rotations of med school, Giovanni is also desperately searching for Mrs. Harris the dead patient he lost—not once, but twice! Can he find her and help her to “Les Invisibles”, or will he finally be overwhelmed by his growing responsibilities, an increasing number of ghosts, or the misplaced paperwork piling up in the morgue?

The CO-D4 virus rages the globe, leaving weary survivors and infected who roam the streets. In the aftermath of the pandemic, Doctor James Ung finds himself in a new type of world. A quiet one. Almost as if everything is put on pause. The global distribution of the vaccine breeds a different outcome other than hope. Those who receive it fall into a deep coma. Ung along with Major Tom find an ally in Ella Hoffman, a displaced survivor from another camp. Time is running out and they are clueless as to what will happen when the inoculated survivors wake.

Baltimore’s streets are overrun with enhancers - people who inject themselves with illegally purchased genetic modifications to alter their bodies. While on patrol in a rough neighborhood, Officer Ana Dellaporta discovers the bullet-riddled corpse of an enhancer and suspects a case of typical gang violence. But when another enhancer is found terrorizing the locals, his body mutated by gene mods, Ana unearths an unsettling connection between him and the gunshot victim.

An incurable disease kills millions around the world. A selfish father is about to be its next victim. See what he wishes for in his last hour. Gene Carlotta is on his deathbed and won’t live long enough to see the next sunrise. As his life flashes in his mind’s eye he comes to realize the one thing he never gave his son and the heartbreaking remorse that consumes his last moments.

As a child, Lili Banta ignored her grandmother's cryptic warnings to avoid children outside their Filipino community in Houston. When many of those other children fell ill, Lili ignored the whispers in her community that a vampiric aswang walked among them. Years later, Lili returns to Houston to work for the Quarantine Station of the Center for Disease Control - but she is plagued by dark, bloody dreams that consume her nights and haunt her days.