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1) Foreign body
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms; she diagnoses and treats the disease itself....
Author
Language
English
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Description
It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Marcus Welby is a kind family practitioner who tackles many sensitive and controversial health and social issues that are still topical today. He is helped by his young assistant Dr. Steven Kiley, and secretary/nurse Consuelo Lopez. Includes A Matter of Humanities two hour TV movie pilot.
6) Suicide med
Author
Publisher
[Freida McFadden]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
NOTE: This is the original version of this title. A new, revised edition with approximately 20% new material has been published under the title Dead Med. "I don't want to die like this. Not here, not now--in the anatomy lab on a Saturday night. I know I've done some bad things in my life, but I'm pretty sure I don't deserve this..." Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. One suicide. Every year. Heather McKinley has always dreamed...
7) Dead med
Author
Publisher
[Freida McFadden]
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
NOTE: Dead Med was originally published as Suicide Med. Dead Med is a revised edition with approximately 20% new material. "When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 5
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author James Patterson, the Women’s Murder Club takes on a string of mysterious patient murders at a hospital–will they find the killer before more innocent lives are lost?
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation against a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation against a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the 19th century, women rarely study medicine. This means that Nora Beady, the only woman in her medical school, constantly feels like an outsider. And when she is chosen to work with the only female professor to develop the caesarian section, Nora draws the wrath of her male peers and professors. It's a dangerous-and divisive-procedure that could save countless lives and revolutionize women's health. But most doctors think it's too risky, many...
10) Viral
Author
Language
English
Description
"Brian Murphy and his family are in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City becomes a race to the hospital as she begins seizing in the care. She is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and lethal mosquito-borne disease. Complicating the situation further, Brian and Emma's daughter begins to exhibit alarming symptoms, too. Furious at the shockingly indifferent...
12) Charlatans
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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....
14) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
15) Rush: Season 1
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Not only does Dr. William Rush's thriving L.A.-based medical practice include celebrities, moguls and gangsters, it's a completely private affair. As a highly skilled doctor who makes house calls to some of the most dangerous locations in the city, he can name his price, and its cash only.
16) A case of need
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1993], c1968
Language
English
Description
When one doctor is accused of murder, it takes another to set him free In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall's teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood? The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist,...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Step into the world of a sharp-witted, headstrong medical examiner with unorthodox crime-solving methods and strained relationships with the living. Dr. Megan Hunt was second to none, a brilliant neurosurgeon in a class all her own, but when her lifesaving gift is destroyed in a career-killing car accident, she reinvents herself as a medical examiner.
18) Scrubs: Season 4
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
J.D. and Elliot are learning to work together after the bad breakup. Both are competing for the Chief Resident position. Turk and Carla are struggling with newlywed life. Turk is faced with some difficult health issues. J.D. and Turk's relationship sees some difficulties.
19) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, the author makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs. After the criteria used to define osteoporosis were altered, seven million American women were turned into patients literally overnight. The proliferation of fetal monitoring in...
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