Narrative theme: Health & illness Books

An injured derelict receives inadequate attention and dies in Milltown Hospital. He's found to be a Federal agent The hospital will be forced to close unless their emergency surgical care is improved. Trauma surgeon, Simeon Macdonald, joins their staff...

Stephen Rogers' five-year-old daughter, Jamie, has beaten her cancer. This much he knows for certain. But when she dies of uncontrolled seizures in the high tech MRI machine, he just cannot accept that her cancer had returned. Their doctor, Colleen...

Journey with a family through six months in ""the valley of the shadow of death"" as an aggressive lung cancer takes a beloved, firstborn son through the worst battle of his life. A Purple Heart recipient from the Afghan war, Scott's war with cancer will...

Will Glenndenning is a medical school drop-out, a PhD drop-out, and very nearly a drop-out from life itself. Now middle-aged, he has settled into a comfortable, solitary life as a science writer and amateur biotech analyst. Yet, from his roots in Lost...

Books about death are invariably about life. In her book "Memento Mori," Muriel Spark says: "Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is...

In this engaging and heartfelt novel, Libby Parker, a normal, happy fourteen-year-old girl, finds her life dramatically changed on September 25th, 2006, when her school bus is hit from behind by another bus. Libby is left with near-total amnesia and...

IN A SERIES OF INTIMATE VIGNETTES, The Chair Beside the Bed explores the individual experience of death through the eyes of caregivers. Each story in this collection examines a unique journey towards death, showing how a person facing death-and their...

In this stunning work of contemporary fiction, Chevalier has succeeded in illuminating one of the unspeakable tragedies of our age: the exploitation of illness. Rendering the depravity and misfeasance of our modern-day temples of medicine with scholarly...

A dashing young physician and devoted husband, father, and son, Olu Adebo looks at his sky and finds every inch of it lined with silver-until new ambitions drive him to New York City. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of residency training, a...

Few family members stick around long enough to see their children grow up. In Preston Adam's case, his father is estranged and rheumatic, living alone an hour north. Despite fallouts between his dad and sister, Preston attempts to make amends when his...

Samantha Harmon, a recently hired sales representative for a multinational drug company, struggles to succeed in the extremely competitive American pharmaceutical industry. Living in the shadows of her widowed father, a high-level executive with the...

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...

Daniel Whitacore is a brilliant oncologist who discovers a way to use a deadly virus to treat lymphoma. His discovery is a miracle to those who suffer from the devastating disease. Unfortunately, Daniel has enemies. These enemies hope to alter his...

When 57-year-old Ethan Zachary is struck by lightning, he starts growing progressively younger. Suddenly his plans to run for Congress, as well as marriage, are ruined. And although he now finds himself able to attract the young ladies, his internal...

When medical Dr. John Naysmith reports to his new assignment on Mars, he's immediately confronted by a crisis: the outbreak of an alien virus among several men who've been exploring the Martian landscape. The entire base is quarantined, and the Security...

Phillip Coffin, the legendary Dean of the Benjamin Franklin Medical School, harbors a secret that plagues him in his dreams and feeds his insecurities. Nick Ware=s implacable animosity towards him seems fueled by jealousy over the close relationship...

Notorious Doctors deals with the many facets of medical practice. Subtle fighting among doctors to secure more patients, the destructive nature of professional jealousy that destroys honest and conscientious physicians, disregard for patients' welfare,...

Recruited to replace a renowned psychiatrist who has mysteriously disappeared, Dr. Rachel Miller is plunged into the hectic world of psychiatry at a state-of-the-art clinic specializing in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder, also known as...

The five women sitting in the circle of chairs all had great dreams of motherhood. Then their babies died. Melinda sees blood on the floor every day after her loss. Dot believes the wrath of God caused her baby to die. Teenage Tina is trolling internet...

Der zweite Band des Romans "Ein Weiblicher Arzt" von Arthur Stahl. Verfolgen Sie die Geschichte von Dr. Helene Petersen, einer der ersten weiblichen Ärzte Deutschlands. Ein fesselnder Roman für jeden Leser.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

When Sheila Traventi discovers she's pregnant with her second child, she's ecstatic. Happily married to her handsome husband, Richard, and the mother of a two- year-old boy, Tim, the future can only be promising. That's until genetic testing uncovers a...

Two brothers, the masterminds behind the Brotherhood Genetic Engineering Corporation, scheme to create superhuman immortals to rule over mortal man.

Annually, about 300,000 African babies are bornwith sickles cell disorders. A bold deception threatensto plunge the family of ex-miss Nigeria when hertwo sons are diagnosed with sickle cell Anaemia.Intrigue and family crisis mingle in one of the...

1ST FLAP COPYSeveral years ago, while I was rounding at one of the Brigham and Women's Hospital nurseries, a new father shared a funny story with me.Early the previous morning, this new father went to the hospital lobby in search of coffee and bagels. ...

Two wounded souls are adrift in a sea of shattered dreams and broken promises.Samirah Lundgren has lost everything she holds dear. Abandoned by her father and haunted by the memory of her mother, she seeks solace at the bottom of a bottle amidst the...

Though a novel, Bringing Vincent Home reads like the finest memoir, so authentic and convincing that at times I found myself turning back to the title page to be sure it was a work of fiction. Rarely does a book of any sort touch me as this one did. ...

It is 1979, and a young man lying on the ground shivering from septic shock is taken to an emergency room, where doctors discover a rare microbe previously assumed harmless. In the ensuing months, the same disease reappears in other victims, all from the...

What Is an EMT's Job Really Like? No one should be "just" anything, especially not "just an EMT"! Learn what it takes to be an exceptional Emergency Medical Technician and if the job is right for you and you are right for the job. Here you will find...

Obie Hardy, a medical student at the Medical College of Virginia, struggles to translate textbook training into live patient care. In the 1980s, this small town boy is challenged by Richmond's city lifeand the incessant competiveness of his classmates...

አንድ ሰው ነበረ፤ የተለየ ልብ ያለው። አኧምሮውን ማዘዝ እና ማስቆም የሚችል ልብ። አኧምሮው ሲያስቆመው አካሉም እዛው ተገተረ። ያለ ተስፋ፣ ያለረዳት፣ እዛው እንድቆመ ፤ ለምን እንደሆነ ባላወቀው ምክንያት፣ ሁሉም ነገር በዙሪያው በፍጥነት ይለዋወጥ ነበር። ለተመለከተው ፊቱ ይናገራል፣ እሱ ለውጡ አልገባውም። እዛው በመንገዱ ዳር እንደቆመ መልኩ ጠፉ፣ ውበቱ ረገፈ። ዓመታት አለፉ። መንገደኛው...

A woman comes to England seeking asylum.Heart rending, enlightening, triumphant. A year in the life of a woman who arrives in the UK with five pounds in her pocket and one carrier bag of possessions.Although it's a true representation of events which...

While caring for her terminally-ill Aunt Louise, Nori McFarlane stumbles on a mystery related to her aunt's medical fellowship at a tuberculosis sanitorium in the Adirondacks in the 1950s. The discovery of her aunt's journal and conversations they have...