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41) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man' body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When her friend Bob "the millionaire intern" Barton offers Cherry Ames a temporary assignment to help establish a health clinic in a small village in Kenya, she sees it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but soon realizes that something is amiss.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hannah, Compton, and Kira have been close friends since medical school, reuniting once a year for a much-needed vacation. Just as they gather to travel in Spain, an outbreak of a fast-spreading virus throws the world into chaos. When Compton Winfield returns to her job as an ER doctor in New York City, she finds a city changed beyond recognition-and a personal loss so gutting it reshapes every aspect of her life. Hannah Geier's career as an ob-gyn...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are--not a war, but a revolution.
45) Healing hearts
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Miriam Bricks arrives in Savage Wells thinking she is accepting a job as a nurse. Dr. Gideon MacNamara thinks Miriam is coming to be his wife. Despite the misunderstanding, they learn to work together as a team to help the sick and injured. As their relationship grows into something deeper, Miriam's secrets may take away their dreams"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Language
English
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
47) Light and air
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Cherry Ames nurse stories volume 13
Publisher
Springer Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Cherry learns about the workings of the mind as she collaborates with a staff psychiatrist in trying to assist a young amnesia patient regain his memory.
49) Observer
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam Watkins has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in the...
Author
Series
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 8
Publisher
Hendrickson Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"After years of partnership and friendship, Shiloh Irons-Winslow believes he finally has something to offer the talented and experienced doctor, Cheney Duvall. The day has come that he asks for her hand in marriage. But for Cheney, an insurmountable obstacle stands. Devastated to realize that she has allowed herself to fall deeply in love who doesn't share her faith, she faces the most wrenching decision of her life. And then a diabolical scheme hatched...
Author
Series
House of God novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of God. One of the most prominent and enduring titles in medical fiction is the bitingly funny House of God, which has sold more than 2 million copies, becoming required reading for generations of medical students and health care professionals. With Man's 4th Best Hospital, Samuel Shem "the comic genius and holy terror of medicine" returns us to the hilarious and heartbreaking world of modern...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, overworked staff and underfunded wards, a more insidious secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. And a murderer may be lurking in plain sight.
54) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Language
English
Description
"Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including...
Author
Series
Cherry Ames nurse stories volume 7
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
Cherry is finally discharged from the Army and takes a job as a private duty nurse to a celebrated musician suffering from a heart condition.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Cherry enjoys being the office nurse for a medical practice in New York City's theater district, although the medical secretary is behaving suspiciously, and spends her weekends helping to fix up up a country house belonging to her roommate's family.
57) Sin and bone
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Pierce, report to Emergency, stat! Your wife is gravely injured."Except Devon Pierce's wife has been dead for six years. Someone is trying to frame him for murder! The Colby Agency assigns Isabella Lytle to investigate. Her instincts tell her Devon is no murderer, but he is hiding something. It could be the key to his innocence. Now Bella must coax out Devon's deepest secret--while resisting the undeniable allure she feels for him.
58) Saving Meghan
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Language
English
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Description
"The Gerard family has lived a charmed life. Carl is a highly successful residential developer with millions in the bank who married his high school sweetheart, Becky, and they have a beautiful daughter, Meghan. But when Meghan is suddenly struck with a mysterious illness that starts out as chronic headaches and joint pain but progresses rapidly to affect her cognitive ability, the family begins to fracture as they search desperately for a diagnosis...
59) Good enough
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Language
English
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Description
"In the hospital where she is receiving treatment for anorexia, twelve-year-old Riley records her days in her journal--going to therapy, rediscovering her love of art, dealing with her rule-breaking roommate, and worrying about relapse once she returns home." --
60) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta finds herself up against a killer who hids his crimes with fire.
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