Fiction - Medical

After her father's death, 25-year old Helen Miller needs a fresh start. She finds a job that takes her to Paris. But when her charming new boss, the rich 45-year old Jake Klein, begins dating her, Helen can't resist falling for him despite the...

Who would fathom little eight-year-old Pedee hanging himself? Why bring a pig to a counseling session? How could a stepfather burn his stepson? In Do They Have a Pill for That?, author T.L. Shull takes a walk through the mental health profession from the...

This traditional-style murder mystery takes place in the unlikely setting of a hospital where an innocuous game, which medical staff play to hone their professional skills, provides the stimulus for murder.When Katlin's long-time friend dies mysteriously just as she is to be discharged from...

Sixty-two-year-old Marguerite has just had her second breast cancer diagnosis following a routine mammogram-and this time she will have to undergo a full mastectomy. Scared and discouraged, she keeps the news to herself so she doesn't spoil an important family event. While she struggles...

Sixty-two-year-old Marguerite has just had her second breast cancer diagnosis following a routine mammogram-and this time she will have to undergo a full mastectomy. Scared and discouraged, she keeps the news to herself so she doesn't spoil an important family event. While she struggles...

Behind Locked Doors, the story of Charlie, a young woman with a life set up just as she planned. A beautiful home, a dream pastry shop and her high-school sweetheart as her fiancé. When an unfortunate, unpredictable accident causing a severe traumatic brain injury...

Some believe Dr. Bob Cassidy is America's worst doctor. The young physician is already defending his third malpractice suit, being investigated by the feds, and about to lose his hospital privileges. Many believe Angela Fratello is America's top malpractice lawyer. Known as the "Angel...

Four psychiatric managed care companies take the next logical step in their obsession with cost containment and begin to secretly murder chronic mental patients, making it look like an accident or suicide. After Dr. James Corrigan and his wife are savagely attacked by a...

The medical world is a dynamic one, a place of action and subtle adventure populated with interesting characters and fascinating situations. Each story in this collection reflects on the possibilities of change in our lives through advances in medical care. Doctors, even with their...

Alex Matterson believed that everything exists somewhere on a continuum; good and bad, clean and dirty, black and white ... but once you understand the rules of the game you see all the grey in between. Jonty was quite happy in his chemical cocoon,...

When his younger sister dies from an elderly doctor's error, Martin Cromlech makes a vow that leads him tumultously through medical school and into a life of medicine and research far different from the one he envisioned, and into his tangled love affair with...

WINNER: 2016 Beverly Hills Book Award for Medical Thriller FINALIST: 2016 Chatelaine Awards for Romantic Fiction (Chanticleer Reviews) When English medical student Penny Drayton chooses an elective term abroad, she holds high hopes of helping the beleaguered people of Uganda. Upon arriving at the...

Author: Paul RafferISBN-10: 149905338XISBN-13: 9781499053388Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2014Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001

Come and take a ride with me along this fictional journey through the field of nursing. Come have your questions about nursing answered. What exactly do nurses do? Is nursing difficult? Can I do it? Is it too late to change my career? Is...

FICTION / MEDICAL / MYSTERY / EXPOSE' "... A VITAL PRESCRIPTION FOR READERS WHO WANT TO KNOW WHAT REALLY GOES ON IN THE CRITICAL-CARE WARD." KIRKUS REVIEW, JANUARY 2015. Charles Harper White, M.D. begins his career as an idealistic internist but soon finds his...

While medical students suspect that every headache is a brain tumor and that every chest pain is a heart attack, experienced physicians know diseases along a spectrum of horror-the ones they dread the most. Among these are cancer, Alzheimer's, stroke, diabetes, and ALS (Lou...

When Vincent begins his internship in a funeral home prep room, he quickly realizes he is in for more than he bargained. The staff members guide him through embalming, cremation, and restorative art, but are insensitive to his awe and trepidation. After all, they...

What a difference a year makes. One year ago, Penney Divan, a well-respected and busy high school principal, didn't worry about her health. But that all changed when she learned that she had developed a rare form of breast cancer. It's been a year...

It is 1973, and Willie Mays "Bernie" Bernstein is a disillusioned doctor. As the Vietnam War rages thousands of miles away, Bernstein fights a battle inside his own mind. Despite Nixon's announcement that there will be a cure for cancer in the next decade,...

Robert and Sharon are retired teachers who make a yearly pilgrimage to the idyllic Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. They are committed to their annual trip, almost as much as they are committed to each other. Their journey to San Miguel often...

Highland Gals is a work of fiction about four middle aged women who have worked together at Highland Crossing Care Home. As Licensed Nursing Assistants, Dolly, Maria, Peg, and Rusty have been caregivers to residents for over twenty years. Day after day, year after...

Three years in the life of a single mother who struggles with returning to college and learning the complicated world of hospital nursing. With humor and determination, Kelly juggles divorce, single parenthood, college classes, family illness, dating, a new career and an unplanned pregnancy....

Highland Gals is a work of fiction about four middle aged women who have worked together at Highland Crossing Care Home. As Licensed Nursing Assistants, Dolly, Maria, Peg, and Rusty have been caregivers to residents for over twenty years. Day after day, year after...

When a newspaper reporter splashes before-and-after photos in her Sunday edition of a wrinkling, graying, overweight 52 year-old math and computer science teacher who now looks like a thin, spooky-beautiful teenager, national TV and press crews scurry to Ojai, California, three hours northwest of...

Author: Jan L. Eira,L. Jan EiraISBN-10: 1479749362ISBN-13: 9781479749362Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2012Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Jim Johnson could be any man in Everytown, America. It happens that he is a 50 year old Dean of Students, a husband and parent of three children. Unfortunately, he is also one of the 5 million American's with Alzheimer's disease. His diagnosis comes...

"Young lady, I've known you and your brother from the first day you both sat in these very same chairs as I told your mother why she was having trouble tripping over things. I know you're strong, Wendy, and you are going to need...

In 1997 four people suffering from debilitating and incurable ailments are suddenly and inexplicably cured after exposure to some tropical homeopathic remedy. Their lives and the lives of their families are obviously impacted by this remarkable occurrence knowing that they are no longer facing...

Ahmad and Hasan were two of the brightest students at Aden College in Yemen; they were also best friends. After graduation, they traveled together to Britain, where Ahmad studied medicine in Edinburgh and Hasan studied law in London. Their friendship remained strong while in...

Continuing from Books I (Hessian John, 19th Century Military Surgeon), Book II (Hessian John, Army Surgeon in the Pioneer West), and Book III (Hessian John, Civil War Military Surgeon), 48-year-old former Mississippi plantation owner, Dr. Johann Walbrecht, in Book IV (Hessian John, 19th-Century Railroad...

UNANNOUNCED is a medical thriller reminding readers that terrorist attacks do not require crumbling towers. They can be small and cumulative, chipping away bit by bit at Western culture until, finally, they threaten the very essence of life as we know it. Dr. Jonathan...

When solo obstetrician Joshua Barron suffers a heart attack, he is forced to confront his biggest fear: taking on a partner. Sharing a medical practice is no easy task for Dr. Barron, whose driven attitude and possessive patient-care ideals are difficult to match. Joshua's...

When Penny Pewitt decides to take on a second nursing job at a large hospital, she hopes to secure extra income for her family. Instead, she discovers exploding changes in health care and resulting illegal practices that endanger not only patients, but also anyone...

Mary Valone is thinking about resigning from her position as medical secretary at Valleyview General Hospital. A saga surrounds the hospital and its executive director, whose swift rise to power has left countless bitter enemies in its wake. As her devoted son John urges...

At home in San Francisco, between research trips to Africa, renowned primatologist Suzanne Albrecht finds herself suffering from an unexplained fever. Dr. Tony Miller, one of the sharpest diagnosticians in San Francisco, is determined to uncover the cause. But Suzanne doesn't have time for...

Author: Christine StandishISBN-10: 1441593594ISBN-13: 9781441593597Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2010Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Untold numbers of doomed patients await the donation of a beating heart. When black-market organs enter the equation, things can turn ugly. In ancient cultures, priests presented the still-living heart at a ceremony to appease the Gods. In modern society, the church symbolically presents...

In Turnabout, by Bruce Kaler, Dr. Fred Pomeroy, a respected Seattle general surgeon, finds himself the object of a malicious malpractice lawsuit, brought against him by his vengeful ex-girlfriend. Matters avalanche from bad to worse when Pomeroy learns that someone in his office is...

Author: Cleo DunnitISBN-10: 1436317347ISBN-13: 9781436317344Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2008Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Johann Walbrecht, a young Germanic hunter/soldier, is immersed in medical training at Marburg University when he is forced to flee his country after a pistol duel with the son of the region's Baron. He has no idea the course of his life is about...

Party animal and practising hypochondriac Jen Evans is ill and this time it's for real. With only weeks to live, join Jen on the most emotional journey of her life...Author: Rachael Elizabeth ConisbeeISBN-10: 141202417XISBN-13: 9781412024174Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2004Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Author: Diana LyonsISBN-10: 1410714314ISBN-13: 9781410714312Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2003Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.08h x 6.32w x 0.55d

Author: Bill CarriganISBN-10: 1403305684ISBN-13: 9781403305688Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2002Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d

Some choices save a life.Others chain you to a lie.Dr. Rachel Howard makes a quiet act of compassion, and becomes trapped inside a secret powerful enough to cost her her career, her freedom, and her unborn child. Amid a stifling silence, Rachel Howard understands...

A near death experience leaves a coldly rational neurosurgeon haunted by that moment of transcendence. In search of unearthly light, Dr. Martin Singer descends into the dark. A price will be paid by his family, a soldier gravely injured in Vietnam, and the two...

What if the body, your own body, or someone else's, became the most unreliable narrator you've ever met?From post-World War I New York to pandemic-era Savannah, from the quiet kitchens of Maine to the heat-soaked streets of Malaysia, THE LEG IN QUESTION unravels the...

In the heart of Montreal, Dr. Sarah Adams is a respected thoracic surgeon-precise, composed, and trusted in the operating room. But when a former trauma patient files a complaint, her world shifts. Accused of negligence and bound by institutional silence, Sarah finds herself under...

Isaac Goldman graduated from a prestigious medical school with two goals in mind: to become a foremost Neurosurgeon, and to defeat death. A very wise professor once told him, "To cut is to cure," and Isaac was determined to spend the rest of his...

The law firm of Turner & Waters has a new associate. Jodie Waters has finally worked her way up from Stan's secretary to become a full-fledged attorney. Having great confidence in her abilities, Stan asks her to help him in the investigation of a...

An intrepid medic tracks a killer looking for the ultimate thrill.Police doctor Callie Hughes is having doubts about her life on the south coast after her boyfriend's move to Belfast, when a mysterious death draws her once again into a criminal investigation.A woman is...