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2) Host
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lynn Peirce is a fourth-year medical student at Mason-Dixon University. When her otherwise healthy boyfriend enters the hospital for routine surgery and fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, an MRI confirms brain death. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are revealing, Lynn and her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender, hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice. They find that hospitals...
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English
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"Morgan Finney, a biotechnology tycoon, is a shy, highly intelligent but socially awkward and emotionally fragile man. It was his wife, Jenny, with whom he connected and who enabled him to connect with others. When Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will systematically destroy her life. Aided by a mysterious man named...
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English
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"Its been twelve years since ER nurse Frankie Stapleton fled the quiet banks of Stillwater, but with her sisters pregnancy taking a dangerous turn and a string of failed relationships in Chicago hanging over her, Frankie is backand hoping to put the past behind her. Within minutes of arriving at Stillwater General Hospital however, she ends up saving a mans life, only to have him turn up dead hours later and the hospital blames Frankie. Her instincts...
5) The runaways
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Grandpa's in the hospital and hating it. He swears at the nurses and makes trouble for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit, but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often as he's allowed, and when he's not allowed, he goes anyway. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was happiest--the island where he lived with Grandma before she died. He wants to go back one last time, but they won't let him out of the hospital. Gottfried Junior and Grandpa...
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Series
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Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Berenstain Bears pay a visit to the hospital, Brother and Sister see all the activity and people in the busy place, and learn about what goes on there while making new friends.
8) Leech
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and...
9) Genesis
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English
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"New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from ancestry websites to catch a killer in this timely and explosive new medical thriller"--
11) Pandemic
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Pandemic tells the story of Thurston's Disease named after the doctor who discovered it and subsequently was the first to die of it. The situation closely resembles modern day corona virus outbreak in Wuhan involving doctor Li Wenliang being one of the first to discover covid-19 and subsequently dying from it. Is this just a co-incidence or fiction and reality begin to align?
12) Charlatans
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Language
English
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"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....
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Maud gets nervous while sitting in the doctor's office, but when she pretends she is one of the fish in the waiting room, her checkup--and shot--are over in no time. Includes note to caregivers.
14) Cell
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Language
English
Description
Entering a profession on the brink of radical transformation by a new smartphone technology capable of diagnosing and treating patients, radiology resident George Wilson is horrified when his fiancee and several patients die after beta testing the technology.
"The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D.,...
16) The museum of us
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Sadie is lucky to survive an accident, but it changes her world forever when it reveals her secret life and the mysterious, thrilling boy at the center of it"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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...
18) The first family
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Publisher
Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"When President Geoffrey Hilliard's teenage son Cam experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors dismiss his troubles as teen angst. But Secret Service agent Karen Ray is convinced Cam's issues are serious and summons her physician ex-husband for a second opinion. Dr. Lee Blackwood's concerns are dismissed by the president's team--until Cam gets sicker. His only clue is a patient named Susie Banks, who...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
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Language
English
Description
"Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...