Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Medical

In this fast-paced techno-thriller, national leaders unleash a frightening virus created using nanotechnology and old observations about aging and evolution. It spreads across the globe, targeting specific populations and creating widespread death and terror. Bill Walker finds himself pivotal in the resulting full-scale Middle East war, targeted himself by rival femmes fatales, as he races to prevent a string of assassinations, quell the epidemic, prevent the economic collapse, and thwart the social breakdown of society.

American healthcare is in the process of undergoing changes that impact the providers and the recipients of care. Medical practice is heavily regulated and not subject to the forces of supply and demand. There continue to be extraordinary advancements in medical treatment. Patients are more demanding, while the insurance industry is reining in the access and cost of care. The US government is in the driver's seat, one foot on the brake and one on the accelerator. The interplay of the participants is toxic. The patients stories are scattered across a span of more than 40 years and the...

In "The Life and Times of Benjamin Wiggins, M.D.," the prequel to Medical Grail, Ben Wiggins, an irascible octogenarian, pits his wits and spunk against a group of private doctors and administrators who seize an opportunity to use tax funds to purchase a CT scanner for their tiny hospital. Outraged by their brazen attempt to rip-off the community, Ben ignores their threats of lawsuits and libelous assaults while fighting them in the press and in Town Hall. Evelyn Cooper, his companion and confidant, and Peter Henry, a lifelong friend, join him in his battle to expose the hoax that will double...

"This case needs a couple of private detectives and their fees are exorbitant. They would have to go beyond American borders into highly dangerous situations." "Why can't we go, ourselves" asked Petra? "Yes," said John "I can go with a heroic flash instead of lying there till they stopped all the machines...".. "OK," said Paul, as he saw both sets of eyes gleam with excitement. "You are dying and yet you are still a couple of kids," he whispered. "If I was dying, I don't know how I would be." Two young people, both diagnosed with terminal cancer, meet in the Oncology Treatment Center waiting...

Susie and Allison were best friends. They planned to grow old together-two grumpy old ladies on a crooked front porch-but fate had other plans. Allison fell ill with cancer. Although they both knew the prognosis was not good, they pressed forward with treatments and hope. Hope sustained them for a while, but the treatments didn't work. Susie was forced to watch her best friend sicken, suffer, and ultimately, die.

After losing Allison, Susie feels as though she's losing her mind. They call it a nervous breakdown, and Susie is happy to believe the doctors and move on-except something...

Susie and Allison were best friends. They planned to grow old together-two grumpy old ladies on a crooked front porch-but fate had other plans. Allison fell ill with cancer. Although they both knew the prognosis was not good, they pressed forward with treatments and hope. Hope sustained them for a while, but the treatments didn't work. Susie was forced to watch her best friend sicken, suffer, and ultimately, die.

After losing Allison, Susie feels as though she's losing her mind. They call it a nervous breakdown, and Susie is happy to believe the doctors and move on-except something...

Jake was a hard working, conscientious pediatrician in a small town. He was an overachiever who ultimately met his match in the escalating stresses of a life in medicine. From initial debilitating exhaustion through a labyrinth of forced inpatient drug and alcohol treatment, accusations of child abuse, and investigations by his state medical board, he must find and fight his own true internal demons. Navigating an incessant stream of external factors that serve to push him to the brink, Jake must ultimately find the inner strength and vision to conquer a mental marathon and re-assert himself...

'R.I.C.E.' tells stories of addicted physicians, those who love and treat them and the inept who monitor and police. The time is late 1990's and the setting is San Jose. Rehabilitating addicted physicians busted by The Medical Board of California is difficult enough but when eighty MDs are micromanaged by brilliant, street-wise bully-probation officer Simon Bovie, who is supervised by inept and distracted bureaucrats, it results in acrimony, suffering, the violent deaths of two physician clients and even murder. Internist turned addiction specialist, Rich Drinkwater deals with these events in...

"He's starting to crash " Dr. Hooks had been working in the ER long enough to know that if he didn't act quickly his patient would soon be dead. The blood pressure was dropping, the pulse rising, and all signs pointed to a massive internal hemorrhage. But this time the patient wasn't a person. The patient was the Emergency Department itself, and it was hemorrhaging dollars. The hospital 'family' was at the bedside struggling with the decision that would determine its fate. "Shut it down and save the hospital," was the opinion of Timothy Doyle, the new COO. But the ER was a key element of...

Greed can be a lethal weapon in the hands of persons with power. CONDITIONAL, is a medical thriller which follows Dr. Jonathan Harding, a hospital accreditation surveyor, and his two colleagues, a nurse and a hospital administrator, during their 2005 assignment to survey a group of hospitals in the Dallas area. The three run afoul of Larry Sullivan, a sociopathic hospital CEO, when the outcome of his hospital's survey is conditional accreditation. Obsessed by greed, Sullivan also manages a profitable relationship with the drug cartels of northern Mexico. He fears the less than perfect outcome...

When thirty-eight-year-old advertising agency owner Brian McCarthy receives a letter from Merton Caldwell, an attorney in Cave Junction, Kentucky, he doesn't realize his life is about to change drastically. A former member of the Navy Special Forces, McCarthy operates McCarthy Communications in Los Angeles; as a teen, however, he spent two summers on his cousin's farm in small Cave Junction, an area replete with limestone caves.

Through a phone call to the attorney, McCarthy learns that his cousin, Joe Thomas, has died, and McCarthy, the closest living relative, has inherited the...

When thirty-eight-year-old advertising agency owner Brian McCarthy receives a letter from Merton Caldwell, an attorney in Cave Junction, Kentucky, he doesn't realize his life is about to change drastically. A former member of the Navy Special Forces, McCarthy operates McCarthy Communications in Los Angeles; as a teen, however, he spent two summers on his cousin's farm in small Cave Junction, an area replete with limestone caves.

Through a phone call to the attorney, McCarthy learns that his cousin, Joe Thomas, has died, and McCarthy, the closest living relative, has inherited the...