Narrative theme: Health & illness Books

The Condition tells the story of a proper New England family that comes apart one fateful summer. To their dismay, Frank and Paulette McKotch's daughter, Gwen, has been diagnosed with Turner's syndrome--a genetic condition that leaves her trapped forever...

"Every Third Night" is an eye-opening yet poignant story that is set in a busy, dehumanizing and unyielding New York City residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1984. It brings the reader into the real world of medicine at a time of limited...

Would You Tell Reasonable Lies To Protect The Ones You Love The Most?Jane Walden has it all. A thriving career, beautiful twins, a crazy but dependable best friend, and an adoring husband. Living life to its fullest and planning for their futures.But One...

Armed with extraordinary medical talent and a winning smile, newly trained surgeon, Chase Callaway, enters the world of private practice in Los Angeles, only to be greeted by a wall of stunning peer rejection. A charge of malpractice is levied a mere...

Mind Travel is a ride through the history of man written in the chromosomes of mankind. At all levels it is two tales pitting opposites, ancient and modern, greed and understanding, interwoven and conflicting until they finally merge to one.

Lillian Reynolds faces the darkness of mankind daily as a licensed mental health counselor specializing in trauma. Her interest in psychology began during childhood. While exploring her grandparent's northern Michigan lakefront property, she realized...

This World Fantasy Award winner in the vein of Animal Farm delves into a lab worthy of a mad Nazi scientist—but run by a brilliantly sadistic rodent.In the annals of American literature, there has never been a character quite like Doctor Rat, PhD...

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...

Once upon a time, there lived a bison who wanted to help other animals, and so spent his life studying medicine to become a doctor. So it was that the bison came upon a family of mice who were all sick, but they had nothing with which to pay for the...

C. C. Green wrote Failure to Thrive - A Medical Student's Novel because she had no idea what she was getting into when she began medical school and wanted to share her experiences. The story follows three medical students who, almost overnight, are...

How do you highlight just one comical story from the Emergency Room? You don't. Take for example, our patient in "I've got a Rumble in my Tummy". So there we all were, standing around at the nurse's station looking at the x-ray of an abdomen and pelvis,...

As Dean and Heidi Wilkes race from their home in Salamanca, New York, to a town outside of Syracuse where their only child is attending a Christian summer camp, all they know is that thirteen-year-old Sara is ill with a severe sore throat. They are...

Surprisingly, most people still have some false myths and beliefs about some disease conditions, especially HIV/ AIDS in the rural areas. In this interesting play titled, NO LONGER A MYSTERY... which is a fiction, the author addresses this challenge in...

Attorney Jill Shannon's clients include Blick Pharmaceuticals, which is pursuing research into life-extending drugs. Blick has reawakened the homicidal maniac Payback, whom they created twenty years earlier, to literally kill off the competition by...

The author has seven published novels. His enduring interest in Canadian Army history is based on having attended the McGill medical school through the Regular Officer Training Program which required three summers of basic and field training followed by...

Welcome to Follicle FarmBobby is a Mitochondria and he works as a humble Follicle Farmer. He, with millions of colleagues, is part of the amazing organisation dedicated to growing hair for the human male that they live inside of. Recently, Bobby made an...

St Anslem's Hospital has an excellent reputation. It is owned by the Archdiocese and administered by the Poor Sisters of Charity. However, the continuing changes in hospital care caused the hospital to care more about money than patient care. The...

"Understanding Environmental and Public Health Laws in Liberia" is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the legal frameworks governing environmental protection and public health in the Republic of Liberia. Written by Mogana S. Flomo, Jr., a...

The whole idea behind writing the book on schizophrenia is, there is ignorance regarding the illness. People think all mental illnesses are alike, whereas every illness requires different treatment. Don't shun people with mental illness. Such people...

Author Mike Grindstaff­ hit another home run with Second Chance to Die. Marwin Gelstone has had a rough year. His partner's wife committed suicide, and he was almost murdered by a local gynecologist as he uncovered the doctor's murderous intentions...

Can he make himself heard in her silent world?Carli Jameson grew up in a world without sound. Raised in an all-Deaf family, she worked hard to prove those with hearing loss can still be successful. When she meets Blake Wentworth, she knows from...

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...

'Project Day Lily" Summary(186 words)The Project Day Lily story chronicles the events surrounding what the public knows as "Gulf War Syndrome." To this day, the public perception of that tragedy is very limited, but now there are over 150,000 veterans...

"Mary At The Window" is a love story unlike any other love story you have ever read. It is a sensitive and touching look at the true meanings of life and love. Follow Mary through her life in her search for love, and find out how illness can sometimes...

A darkly comic reflection on homelessness, life writing and dermatology.The homeless are dying; a pestilence is sweeping them off the streets, while the authorities herd the not-yet-dead into sinister 'clinics' in derelict industrial wastelands… until...

In 1972, thirty-two-year-old Ann Garrity couldn't ask for more. She has a satisfying teaching career, a comfortable marriage, two wonderful daughters, and a quiet little farm. But when she discovers a lump in her breast, she is thrust back to the...

Decisions of Love is a novel in which the mundane motives for murder are intertwined with the difficult decisions which must be made by those in love, and those whom love has failed.When Anne Dalton's husband becomes ill, she demands that his physicians...

High risk or not, the delivery was now in the hands of not a fully staffed delivery room, but a very experienced Paramedic. Fortunately, this was something that most Paramedics really love to. As much death as they have to face, childbirth is a very...

"The three of us stopped as soon as we crossed the line, bent at the waist, arms resting on one another's shoulders. We were sisters in distress, if only for a moment. We were a doomsday trio that could not be consoled by clicking photographs or querying...

In 1945, tuberculosis was known as 'the white plague" and was one of the world's leading causes of death. Victims were confined to sanatoriums under the control of state laws, and they were not allowed to leave.After she is diagnosed with tuberculosis,...

A simple lab test that could customize chemotherapy to the patient and save lives. Surely such a breakthrough would be hustled into widespread use? Not in A Test of Survival, and not in the real-life story that inspired it. Money is certainly at stake,...

Megan Connors is a self-centered eighteen-year-old. Her mother's alcoholism and depression are making Megan feel like the mother instead of the daughter. After an embarrassing confrontation with her mother, Megan runs away-right into the path of an...

When Susan Salt meets vivacious Vale Pepper at Benjamin Hale Hospital in 1964, little does she envisage the many changes to her life. How can shy nursing cadet Susan survive the rigours of the hospital's strict and seemingly unfair regime, and the...

Iliana Gosnov?an otherwise beauteous nurse, crippled with spastic monoplegia, due to her mother?s low blood oxygen level during delivery?suffers with a severely dysfunctional leg and a terrible limp all her young life. She explores causes as an adult and...

Pustule Maligne is a gripping and suspenseful novel that tells the story of a small town struck by a deadly and mysterious disease. As the disease spreads and more people fall ill, the townspeople must band together to find a cure and save their...

ILLNESS & GRACE, TERROR & TRANSFORMATION, Heather Tosteson and Charles D. Brockett, Editors, Wising Up Press.In this contemporary anthology of personal memoirs, stories, and poetry contemporary writers explore themes of illness and trauma and the wide...

Maybe it was an innocent mistake, or could it have been sabotage? Either way, Dr. Moe Mathis is in a mess. After obtaining a positive biopsy and performing radical prostate cancer surgery on his lover's father, pathology now finds no evidence of cancer...

Medical student, Beckett O’Neil, refuses to rely on opinions of experienced physicians in diagnosing the disease ravaging the patients body. Her instincts draw her into a world of conspiracy, murder, and biological warfare.