Medical Thrillers Fiction

Mentre Washington si prepara al Memorial Day e il World Pride accende le strade di colori, un incendio devasta una palazzina di Foggy Bottom, quartiere eclettico di villette ottocentesche e palazzi decadenti. Tra le macerie dell'edificio, adibito a Airbnb abusivo, sono rimaste intrappolate quattro persone: per Temperance Brennan, chiamata sul posto come antropologa forense, si tratta di un caso complesso. Le fiamme hanno reso i corpi quasi irriconoscibili, i tessuti sono distrutti, le ossa compromesse.

Doctor Felix Hoffmann is furious when an infusion pump mysteriously fails, nearly killing his 82-year-old patient. But his anger quickly turns to suspicion when he learns the patient’s posh apartment is for sale - without the patient’s knowledge. Together with his vivacious girlfriend, Celine, Felix discovers that someone at the hospital has concocted a deadly scheme to fleece geriatric patients and then hasten their deaths. Turns out he didn’t save his patient from an equipment failure - he saved him from murder.

A normal spring morning cascades into a nightmare world for Mera Stevens as 1.8 billion children simultaneously fall ill and then vanish from the face of the earth. Her son, Jeremy, is one of them. Increased natural disasters, onslaught of disease and other phenomena throws the world into chaos as it balances on the brink of extinction. With communications down, Mera gathers the courage and strength she needs to trek across a dying country in search of a daughter she desperately hopes is alive.

Award-winning author Imogen Robertson continues the acclaimed series she began with Instruments of Darkness. Set in London during the Revolutionary War, Anatomy of Murder follows unlikely forensic investigator Mrs. Harriet Westerman and reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther as they try to solve the mysterious death of a man dragged from the murky depths of the Thames River.

Чикаго потрясает страшное происшествие: прямо со школьного концерта пропадает девочка, а на месте похищения находят белую розу. У ФБР ровно семь дней, чтобы на этот раз предотвратить трагедию. Расследование поручено агенту Бри Адамс. Нейтану меньше всего на свете хочется ввязываться в это дело, но он чувствует, что нужен Бри, и это заставляет его согласиться.

By day, Ivy Marrow saves lives. By night, she decides who deserves to lose them. Trained as a surgeon. Hiding in plain sight. Ivy has one rule: only the guilty bleed. But when Lucien-a dangerously charming intern-uncovers her truth, the line between obsession and destruction fades fast. As Harrowgate Memorial descends into blood-soaked chaos, Ivy must make an unthinkable choice; protect her secret, or survive the monster she helped create. Justice has never been so precise.

Derfor begraver hun sig i jagten på en morder, der har tortureret sit offer grusomt. Da et nyt lig dukker op på Julias obduktionsbord, antager kriminalkommissær Florian Kessler, at der er tale om en ny sag.

Dr. Taylor Abrahms, rising above his troubled past, is an expert in the burgeoning field of Medical Virtual Reality. A gifted researcher, he’s created an experimental fusion of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and microsurgery that will revolutionize the way surgery is performed. With the Virtual Heart Project (VHP), Taylor can enter a virtual recreation of his patient’s beating heart and perform critical, life-saving surgery entirely within the realm of virtual reality. But in the political war zone of San Francisco University Medical Center, not everyone is thrilled.

Sarah Golden and Jackie Larsen, best friends since nursing school, could never have imagined that they’d end up as amateur sleuths searching to find a killer—for the second time! Jackie, a stay-at-home mom with marriage troubles, is racing the clock to get her young son, Wyatt, a living kidney donor to avoid the ravages of dialysis.

The Theory of Irv provides a suspenseful journey through not just the storyline of the book’s plot, but an overview of American health policy. How it came to be a hundred years ago. How it has adapted in the last several decades. Perhaps more importantly, how we can fix it so we can have better health and health care for all Americans into the future.

America is in trouble - at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis - and control the narrative.

A night that starts out as the best night of David’s life goes terribly wrong. He and his fiancé, Julie, wander into Banger territory while trying to help a wounded man. David ends up shot in the head and his girlfriend, kidnapped. Fighting for his life, David is rushed to the hospital where a brilliant neurologist uses a daring new treatment to save him. He survives, but he doesn't remember a thing... not who he is or where he comes from, or that his girlfriend is in terrible danger.

Dopo l'introspettivo viaggio attraverso la narrazione in forma di diario, dei due volumi precedenti, questo terzo e conclusivo libro della trilogia apre il sipario su una visione ad ampio spettro. Attraverso la narrazione in terza persona vengono finalmente svelati molti dei misteri che erano rimasti in sospeso. Il libro si compone di due parti:. La prima, narra l'avvincente passato di un nuovo personaggio. Attraverso le sue interazioni con società segrete, cospirazioni mondiali e ricerche scientifiche, vengono rielaborate e comprese le vicende già trattate in precedenza.

In this vintage locked-room murder-mystery, Nurse Sarah Keate is assigned to the at-home care of a man who recently had a stroke. While he is unconscious, on a dark and stormy night, a murder takes place in his bedroom. With family members and potential heirs confined to the house for several days, additional murders occur while the nurse and detective Lance O’Leary, work on solving the case.

What does it take to wear a flight uniform? What's the toll to stay in one? Join three talented flight crews on gritty, fast-paced helicopter rides through chaos and find out.

Si me vieras paseando por la calle, probablemente pensarías que soy de lo más normal. Con mi impoluto uniforme blanco de enfermera y las manos meticulosamente lavadas, no habría nada en mí que te hiciera pensar que soy más que una buena ciudadana. Una buena enfermera. Pero las apariencias engañan. No deberías confiar en mí. Ni siquiera estoy segura de si yo puedo confiar en mí misma.

Maggie McCabe staat op het randje van de afgrond. Als zeer getalenteerd en gerenommeerd militair traumachirurg heeft ze gevaar nooit geschuwd en staat ze altijd op de plek waar ze de meeste impact kan maken. Haar wereld staat op zijn kop als haar medische bevoegdheid wordt ingetrokken na een reeks tragedies. Maggie wordt opgeroepen om aan de andere kant van de wereld een onconventionele ingreep uit te voeren op een van 's werelds mysterieuzte mannen. Ondanks haar twijfels neemt ze de klus aan, en komt ze terecht in een wereld van onbeschrijflijke rijkdom.

In Containment, the gripping debut of the Robert Cook Spy Thriller series, a world teetering on the brink of a bioterrorism catastrophe finds its unlikely hero in Dr. Robert Cook. A brilliant microbiologist turned covert investigator, Cook is thrust into a high-stakes race against time as a deadly, genetically engineered bacterium begins ravaging unsuspecting victims in France and Russia. When evidence points to Josef Karashvili, a brilliant but conflicted Georgian scientist, Cook must navigate the murky waters of international espionage and political intrigue.

In this two-volume collection of traditional Sherlock Holmes adventures, the good doctor himself is given a chance to shine. These two volumes contain 26 mysteries involving such maladies as plagues, poisonings, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, somnambulism, and many more! The stories are traditional Holmes pastiches and are written by some of today’s top Sherlockian writers!

Insurance litigator Leigh Collins has a knack for turning up that missing e-mail that wins the day or breaking down complex facts to sway a jury. So she's hoping to make partner with her latest case: cancer researcher Dr. Elijah Rhodes and his life's work are lost in a lab fire, and Biosolutions looks to cash in on a $100 million policy. Unfortunately, she's up against Daniel Rubinelli, assistant general counsel for the biotech giant, who has a personal vendetta against cancer.