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2) Pandemic
Author
Language
English
Description
"The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Supervising an unrepentant alcoholic doctor who has been implicated in the death of a powerful Congressman, Dr. Lou Welcome uncovers a wealth of incriminating facts, including the doctor's alleged affair with the victim's wife, before stumbling on a high-level conspiracy that places Lou's life at risk.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Reunited with his former Annapolis roommate, Andrew Stoddard--now president of the United States--when he is asked to become his personal physician, Gabe Singleton discovers that Andrew is going insane and that the condition may not be the result of natural causes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
You've never met anyone like Randle Patrick McMurphy. He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over. He's a lusty, profane, life-loving fighter who rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and at every turn, openly defies her rule. The contest starts as sport, with McMurphy taking bets...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty to serve in World War II. Fingal just wants to marry his beloved Deirdre and live happily ever after. First he must hone his skills at a British naval hospital before reporting back to the HMS Warspite, where, as a ship's doctor, he faces danger upon the high seas. With German bombers a constant...
11) Intervention
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton considers entering alternative medicine and makes contact with two former college classmates, including an archeologist who is digging beneath Saint Peter's and a bishop who would suppress the archaeologist's findings.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a beloved Irish Catholic police officer is diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, his grown children witness the progression of their father's illness and consider whether they want to be tested to see if they have inherited the condition.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A once accomplished concert pianist, Richard now has ALS. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard's muscles, voice, and breath fade, both he and Karina try to reconcile their past before it's too late. This is a masterful exploration of redemption and what it means to find peace inside of forgiveness. Print run 150,000.
15) Death benefit
Author
Language
English
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Description
Launching a private investigation when their mentor dies under suspicious circumstances, medical students Pia Grazdani and George Wilson uncover a sinister operation through which private life insurance policies are being manipulated to allow investors to benefit from the deaths of others.
16) Charlatans
Author
Language
English
Description
"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....
17) Port mortuary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the chief of the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personal and professional life.
Author
Series
Stories from Hope Haven volume 3
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The nurses from Hope Haven go through joys and challenges with their families. Candace finally agrees to go to a grief support group three years after her husband died of a brain aneurysm. James Bell must decide whether to take on the responsibility of being a scout leader for his son's troop. Elena's marriage is tested as her husband thinks she spends too much time at church and not enough time with him.
20) Oath of office
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Merriman years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor...