Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Medical

Dr. Jack Laker, a cardio thoracic surgeon and part-time anatomy professor, discovers one of his medical cadavers has the wrong diagnosis listed as its cause of death.

Laker searches for the cadaver's true identity and, uncovers a secret human cloning company, CloGen, created by a crazed scientist, Dr. John Blake. Risking everything that is important to him, Laker alone must stop Blake's plan to control the world.

What do we know about LASSA? It's viral, it's dangerous, and it causes Hemorrhagic Viral Fever transmitted by urine and fecal droppings of the "Mastomys natalensis" rat. They urinate and defecate in the dust and it's made airborne by sweeping the dust into the immediate atmosphere. It's absorbed into the lungs via the aerosol method. By this method viruses and bacteria are pulled into the lungs by breathing. Now that the infectious agents are in the lungs the infection begins. This infection is then followed by an influenza-like syndrome that occurs some 7-12 days later. It is only fatal in...

Josh Hernandez has one goal. He needs to get a position in next year's surgical residency program at Genesee. If he loses that, he'll have to leave town and be separated from his daughter.

He's on the right path until his brother, Dr. Evan Hernandez, is found dead. When the Medical Examiner labels the death a suicide, the police close the case. It's a decision that Josh cannot accept.

As much for himself as for Evan, Josh goes searching for answers. What he discovers is a cover-up. Bringing it to light will surely cost him a spot in the residency program. But Josh refuses to back off...

When Tom Barclay returns to the Industrial West Riding of Yorkshire, England shortly after the end of World War II he finds his relationship with his daughter drastically affected. He's served five and a half years abroad in the Army. She was eight when he left and fourteen when he returned.

Jonquil Barclay chooses a nursing career against her father's wishes and enters Prelimanary Training School at the local Royal Infirmary in November 1949.

Strict imposed and self-discipline is required from day one.

Serious illness, death, drudgery, extreme emotions and the traumas of patients...

Stephen Rogers' five-year-old daughter, Jamie, has beaten her cancer. This much he knows for certain. But when she dies of uncontrolled seizures in the high tech MRI machine, he just cannot accept that her cancer had returned. Their doctor, Colleen O'Brian, must decide to help this radical commodities trader solve his daughter's death, or trust her superiors at the hospital. Her life and many others depend on her decision. Has a virus infected the MRI scanner at Daley Children's Hospital?

A gawky sixteen-year old girl thrashes about in obscene gestures, shrieking in a strange language. In another context, she would be called possessed; to her father, an important physician, she is epileptic; but to Alex Licata chief neurology resident, she is a fake. If Licata can prove her seizures hysterical, he will be a hero. If not, he may be out of a job...

This is not four-year old BJ Balsiger's first hospital admission, nor is it the first time the physicians have failed to trace the source of his convulsions. Alex Licata's medical student, Casey Lilstrom, has made a list of every...

Have you ever wondered what goes through the mind of a gynecologist? "At Your Cervix" tells the story of Dr. Robert Butterman and his discordant marriage to an outspoken, feisty, British woman.

Dr. Butterman mistakenly feels that he can continue his uninhibited lifestyle in the face of a conservative community that prefers its dirty laundry to be kept private. The tone for the story is set in the opening scene: an uninhibited hot tub party that includes Dr. Butterman, his bisexual wife Miriam, and two married but very naked nurses. Over time, Dr. Butterman finds himself falling in love...

Sandra Lerner pleads both accused not guilty due to insanity in defense of ax murderer Juan Baptista and serial rapist and murderer Xavier Vargus. Coach Guiana Hungun conducts his own defense and is acquitted of murdering Saint Nicholas coeds. 'If the shoe don't fit, you must acquit." Guiana sues Sandra for malpractice and alleges malicious entrapment, reckless disregard for life, and illegal use of deadly force. Sandra's fiance, Dr. Austin Hale, is abducted by persons unknown and flown to Mexico in private jet. Detective Derek Strong accompanies industrialist Maria Tantalia to Switzerland...

"HEARTBEAT" is the riveting story of a dying LA librarian who sues the U.S. Congress in a Supreme Court case demanding health care access for America's 45 million uninsured.

Sometimes no matter how hard she tried, there were tough choices to be made-choices between her heart pills and paying the mortgage, her diabetic pills or electricity in her home, her blood pressure pills or food on the table, her cholesterol pills or the phone bill. Somehow, however, with careful budgeting, Dr. Rosen's good will, and the grace of God, she managed to get by, except on those days when the mailman...

A young gynecology resident, in the midst of her infertility rotation, realizes that she herself may be infertile. Dr. Amy Levine shares the nitty gritty details that no one tells you until you are there, lying on the table, looking at the ceiling. This humorous account of a doctor on the receiving end of fertility treatments will make you laugh and clamp your thighs closed. A must read for anyone who wants to know about getting pregnant when the birds and the bees aren't working.

The author, a gynecologist with her own fertility problems, draws on her personal and professional experiences...

A simple lab test that could customize chemotherapy to the patient and save lives. Surely such a breakthrough would be hustled into widespread use? Not in "A Test of Survival," and not in the real-life story that inspired it.

Money is certainly at stake, as is status, power, loyalty to petrified ideas, and the fate of half a million people dying of cancer every year.

Dr. Gus Ephraim toils for decades at the fringes of cancer research, stubbornly awaiting validation of his tumor test. He risks his marriage and more when he sets up a new lab in the Midwest, too close to wife number one...

A dashing young physician and devoted husband, father, and son, Olu Adebo looks at his sky and finds every inch of it lined with silver-until new ambitions drive him to New York City. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of residency training, a needlestick from a patient with AIDS places Adebo face-to-face with his past history with the virus.As his life begins to spin out of control, he succumbs to the strong attraction he feels for two best friends who do not appear to care about the symptoms he displays, symptoms he fears are due to the deadly virus. Adebo stands to lose everything that...

"Notorious Doctors" deals with the many facets of medical practice. Subtle fighting among doctors to secure more patients, the destructive nature of professional jealousy that destroys honest and conscientious physicians, disregard for patients' welfare, and falsifying research data to gain more research money. Follow the ups and downs of the life of Jake Miller, a naive pathologist, as he gets caught up in the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic world of doctors and administrators in a community hospital."

Recruited to replace a renowned psychiatrist who has mysteriously disappeared, Dr. Rachel Miller is plunged into the hectic world of psychiatry at a state-of-the-art clinic specializing in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder. When one of her patients commits suicide under suspicious circumstances, Rachel begins to question whether she has made the right career choice. Her doubts are soon replaced by fear as she suspects that her colleagues and their unorthodox methods of treatment are behind the violent suicide. Rachel's fears are...

The fictional hero's descent into the hell of mental illness is like millions of Americans today who share his misery. Uncover how he and his family deal with the discriminatory devils created by the current "mythology of madness."

Enjoy how he, his family and friends discover paradise in a Southwest Florida community. Since most of us know someone who has mental health problems, consider suggestions that this story has for our current mental health crisis.

Camilla Warrick wrote two books, with breast cancer as a key player in each of them, before she died of the disease in 2002. "The Invitation" is a work of fiction, about a woman who looks back into some of her difficult college years to try to piece together and make sense of her life situation. It was a quest Camilla herself was on for the last six years of her life. Her own account filled the many, many journals as she rigorously examined her own life and motivations. Those journals were the roots of her first book, "Home Is Where I Live,"

"The Invitation" takes personal questioning and...