Fiction - Medical

The story of a doctor's family torn apart by Soviet politics, persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold War. Available now for the first time in English, Doctor Levitin is a modern classic in Jewish literature. A major work of late...

An injured derelict receives inadequate attention and dies in Milltown Hospital. He's found to be a Federal agent The hospital will be forced to close unless their emergency surgical care is improved. Trauma surgeon, Simeon Macdonald, joins their staff. He performs a life-saving, damage...

Author: Channing HaydenISBN-10: 0595173004ISBN-13: 9780595173006Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 8.94h x 6.18w x 1.17dReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 05/01/2002 pg. 47 - Excellent

Author: C. Robert UmanaISBN-10: 0595158242ISBN-13: 9780595158249Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

She is a trained assassin. Ex-Mossad. Ex-Seal. She has never lost a fight, never lost a battle.Retained by a cabal of environmental extremists, her mission is simple. Exterminate humanity.Tracker is given $20 billion dollars and twenty years to complete her mission.She will attack the...

As a recent graduate, Ben is eager to use and hone his training and skills as a Physician Assistant in Bedlam, a small rural town in northeast Montana. In trauma, disease or mental health, he is prepared to face the challenges. He is even...

The Roll Models Saga-A journey where even the smallest things in life cannot be taken for granted. Eighteenth birthdays only occur once in one's lifetime and they are supposed to be life changing-fate had a grim sense of humor when she attended Steven's Maxwell's...

A surgeon's protégé learns that home is where the cadaver heart is.Isaac had transplanted himself from Alabama to Colorado to work with a surgeon with the highest success rate in the field. He knew that sort of accomplishment came with personal sacrifice, but he...

When the first hate letter arrives in the aftermath of her patient Bonnie's death, obstetrician Dana Cavanagh reads it with shaking hands before placing it next to the small news article from the court's verdict: not guilty.Hate mail continues to trickle in, but one...

Veterinary virologist Jason Mitchell can't keep his mouth shut, can't lie convincingly, and can't follow orders. He's an unlikely candidate to help the CIA locate and destroy a deadly hybrid virus stolen from Jason's lab at the University of Minnesota. From Washington to Djibouti,...

Since the start of the 21st century, the world has been experiencing numerous infectious disease outbreaks, with little time to breath between events. This fictional novel takes place in various countries across the globe that are dealing with large infectious disease outbreaks due to...

Factor-7 presents a terrifying scenario that's ripped from the headlines. You think it could never happen. Factor-7 will make you think twice The life of Dr. Sam Hawkins, the head trauma surgeon at Galveston's St. Peter's Memorial Hospital, is changed forever by the cryptic...

"A great fast-paced read....Not to be missed for fans of ER and Grey's Anatomy." 4 1/2 Stars, Book Addict A medical student investigating the mysterious deaths of patients begins to experience the same deadly symptoms herself. On rotation at Pittsburgh 's Angels of Mercy...

Abigail Henderson of Chicago travels to Africa on impulse. She must resolve her guilt from five years ago before settling down as a practicing physician and marrying Robert. Africa creates a mystical conflict for her. Witch-craft, tropical diseases and the tears of a masaai...

Something is terribly wrong. Ira Stone feels scared, angry, and helpless as he watches his life slowly disintegrate before his eyes. Once a renowned neurosurgeon beloved by his patients, Ira cannot help but remember the one horrifying moment in his life when, while distracted...

When 57-year-old Ethan Zachary is struck by lightning, he starts growing progressively younger. Suddenly his plans to run for Congress, as well as marriage, are ruined. And although he now finds himself able to attract the young ladies, his internal clock keeps winding inexorably...

The start of the beloved New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series from author Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Doctor Barry Laverty, M.D., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek...

A new doctor has been appointed to a village which had only quacks to cure people. Naturally, death and disease were rampant. But with the coming of the new doctor, there arose another problem, that being, the newly appointed doctor had his own peculiar...

Andy O'Hara, a post-doctoral researcher in a London cancer research institute, agrees to help an attractive colleague, Gina, who is collaborating with a pharmaceutical company. She is working on a virus-based vaccine but has discovered the company is planning a clinical trial of the...

NEW YORK CITY, 1890: Lillian Dolan is optimistic about her new job at the New York Cancer Hospital after dreaming for years of becoming a nurse. But she struggles to fit in, and her only friend at the hospital is Jupiter, a Black man...

Meet Elodie Harrington, college student and medical anomaly. From chicken pox to tuberculosis, Elodie suffers such a frequent barrage of illnesses that she moves into the Brown University infirmary. When charismatic Chess Hunter enters the infirmary with two smashed knees, he and Elodie begin...

A hospital is run like any other business with relationships involving friendships, politics, animosity, craftiness, and sometimes sex and murder. Such is the case in the hospitals in the town of Parksville. On the surface all runs smoothly with well trained personnel going about...

Armed with extraordinary medical talent and a winning smile, newly trained surgeon, Chase Callaway, enters the world of private practice in Los Angeles, only to be greeted by a wall of stunning peer rejection. A charge of malpractice is levied a mere three days...

"Any readers who enjoyed the mix of romance, intrigue, and medical accuracy of Call the Midwife will love The War Nurse."--New York Journal of Books"[An] impeccably researched, well-drawn, based-on-a-true-story tale, written by a former RN...The War Nurse shines an important light on a woman...

When trust is violated, can it ever be recovered? Alison Jacobs needs brain surgery and places ultimate trust in her sister's husband, Grant Kaplan, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and expert in treating her condition. But Grant is hiding a dark secret which threatens the outcome:...

NPR Book of the Year 2020Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Ms. Magazine: Anticipated 2020 Feminist Books Refinery29: Books by Black Women We...

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored"City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria--and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Covenant of Water A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. - "Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a...

"The translation by David Short is brilliant, and Gaudeamus contains strong moments when the borders between fantasy and the real blur or crumble, opening up to more searching, deeper prose."--Rain TaxiAuthor: RichardISBN-10: 0993377343ISBN-13: 9780993377341Publisher: Jantar PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2018Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w...

Winterbourne is an evocative tale of murder, revenge, and love. Here is a riveting account of crime, murder, and madness that terrorizes the small-town surgeon and his family in the formerly innocent California community, known as Winterbourne.Set in the early 1960's, this is the...

Saga describing the effects of a medical malpractice suit filed against one of the top cardiovascular surgeons in Chicago and his assistant trainee Resident, The ramifications of that action play out in ways that one would not expect in the everyday drama of the...

Armed with extraordinary medical talent and a winning smile, newly trained surgeon, Chase Callaway, enters the world of private practice in Los Angeles, only to be greeted by a wall of stunning peer rejection. A charge of malpractice is levied a mere three days...

From acclaimed author and Professor Emerita of Pediatrics and Epidemiology Janet Gilsdorf comes a captivating and timely novel about a young doctor's quest to uncover the cause of a mysterious disease killing young children, and the race to find a cure. In 1984, in...

Her Final Stage is set against the backdrop of Special Agent Dr. Erin Mayfield's first case as lead investigator for the Department of Health and Human Services and Erin's previous career adventures in Central and South America working for the CDC and World Heath...

This is a story of healing set in the context of a wealthy philanthropist who gathers a dedicated group of Christian faithful to resurrect a dying town by creating a high quality medical center. It is more than the challenges, labor and sacrifice required...

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in...

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in...

In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews). In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power...

By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor. "The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling...brutally honest."--The New York Times...

A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of secrets in this "deeply felt family saga" (Entertainment Weekly) hailed as "one of the best beach reads of all time" (Today). Brian and Margot Dunne live...

A charming Christmas entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved internationally bestselling Irish Country series, An Irish Country Yuletide. December 1965. 'Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his young colleague Barry Laverty, and...

In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island...

In this thought-provoking and sensitive novel, inspired by the true story of a Louisiana leprosy hospital where patients were forcibly quarantined, acclaimed author Amanda Skenandore tells an extraordinarily timely tale of resilience, hope-and the last woman who expected to find herself in such a...

ELUSIVE WHISPERS, A DARK CLOSET, STRONG ARMS... DOES SHE EVEN WANT TO REMEMBER? Camille Weller has arrived as the first African-American attending in the trauma service of the Medical College of Virginia. Never mind that the locker rooms are labeled "doctors" and "nurses" rather...

A talented, devoted anesthesiologist, with a coveted academic position. A lovely, accomplished financial analyst with a glamorous social life, a high-rise apartment, and a dirty little secret. A chance encounter, a night of passion, a confessed preference for opioids...In this sordid tale of infatuation,...

First, do no harm...A patient comes to you with vague but troubling symptoms. He seems to know a little too much about the odd sickness you've seen in other patients lately. You start to wonder what he's been up to in his chicken coop....

What does a doctor do when he thinks his best is not good enough? Matthew Barrett, thirty-one years old and fresh out of residency, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as a combat surgeon in 1967 at the heightof the Vietnam War. Compassionate and...

When Allison began to care for her mother with Alzheimer's, she started to ask some difficult questions. At what point is a life no longer worth living? Would dementia be in her future too? Worried that her mother's fate may be her own, Allison...

Things are not as they seem...Dr. Addison Fischer never imagined that she would be invited to collaborate with a prospective Nobel Prize winning scientist, but a seemingly innocent meeting reconnects her with Dr. Emmitt Strydent, her high school classmate. Strydent is on the brink...

The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious...