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2) Harvest
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Abby DiMatteo, immersed in her second year as a surgical resident at Boston's Bayside Hospital, is elated when the hospital's elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But soon she must make a critical decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim's healthy heart is ready to be harvested and is conveniently cross-matched to a wealthy patient, forty-six-year-old Nina Voss. Abby and chief resident Vivian Chao hatch...
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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.
5) Host
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2015.
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English
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"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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The Carthage chronicles volume 1
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Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Lisbeth Hastings, a twentieth-century medical resident, falls through a cave in an archaeological site and finds herself a slave in Roman Carthage, where she helps Cyprian, an early Christian, battle an epidemic, as a Roman persecution threatens to separate them.
9) Resistant
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2014.
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English
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Delivering a speech for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, Dr. Lou Welcome takes an exclusive tour of the Centers for Disease Control and learns about the development of biological weapons before becoming enmeshed in a case involving the abduction of a leading scientist.
10) Cure
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With her son’s cancer in remission, NYC medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work—and finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzle in this compelling mystery by the bestselling “master of the medical thriller.” (The New York Times)
The investigation into the shocking death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional challenge for Dr. Laurie Montgomery, and it has her colleagues...
The investigation into the shocking death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional challenge for Dr. Laurie Montgomery, and it has her colleagues...
11) Fatal
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2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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13) Port mortuary
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside 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...
15) Cell
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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) Pandemic
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"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,...
17) Silent treatment
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In his previous best-seller, Natural Causes, Dr. Michael Palmer drew on decades of emergency-room experience to create a terrifyingly realistic world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. In Silent Treatment, he crosses this line with a heart-pounding thriller guaranteed to satisfy fans of medical suspense. When his wife mysteriously dies the night before she is scheduled for surgery, Dr. Harry Corbett realizes a killer is moving...
18) Marker
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Investigating a series of deaths that have taken place among seemingly healthy young people after routine surgeries, doctors Montgomery and Stapleton confront institutional politics that prevent them from proving that the deaths were intentional.
19) Intervention
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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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.