Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Thrillers - Medical

At twenty-five, Simon Worth is a med school dropout, facing the grim reality of failure and massive student loans. Left with few options, he becomes an organ broker for a black-market organization, matching cash-strapped donors with recipients whose time on the transplant list is running out.
Tasked with finding a donor for Lenny Pellegrini, a severely depressed ex-NFL player who's been drinking himself to death, Simon's luck appears to change when he's contacted by Maria Campos, a young woman desperate for cash whose liver happens...

They know her as Kali. She is there to see them off into the afterlife with kindness, with...

It's a doctor's duty to "do no harm," but in a world where healthcare is completely in the hands of the government, meet physicians whose main mission is taking life instead of giving it. Lieutenant Jaye Osgood is lucky to have a good government job. It offers him and his family of five all the comforts of a good life: security, money and access. Until now he had never questioned the tasks he carried out for the Ministry of Health: missions that tore families apart-all in the name of the greater good. But then his own family unit is placed in jeopardy, and Osgood must risk it all to save...

It's a doctor's duty to "do no harm," but in a world where healthcare is completely in the hands of the government, meet physicians whose main mission is taking life instead of giving it. Lieutenant Jaye Osgood is lucky to have a good government job. It offers him and his family of five all the comforts of a good life: security, money and access. Until now he had never questioned the tasks he carried out for the Ministry of Health: missions that tore families apart-all in the name of the greater good. But then his own family unit is placed in jeopardy, and Osgood must risk it all to save...

"Dear Tess, we cut you up today."So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsivedesireto feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body bymethodsboth horrificand creative. In this highly original medical thriller, Tess'snarrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, andthe distinctions between fiction and reality, between art and medicine, are called into question."Without Anesthesia"spanstime periods and settings - from 1920's Hollywood to late 1990's...