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1) Viral
Author
Language
English
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Description
Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer vacation when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their leisurely return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER when her condition dramatically deteriorates. At the hospital, she is diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease caught during one of their evening cookouts. Worse still, Brian and Emma's...
2) Hospital
Author
Series
Hospital volume 1
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he expects nothing more than a standard business trip. A break from his day-to-day routine, a good paycheck, a nice hotel-nothing too extravagant, of course. No fuss, but all the amenities. But this is where his problems begin. A complimentary bottle of mineral water from the hotel minibar results in sudden and debilitating stomach pain, followed by unconsciousness. When he wakes three days later, things...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a budding relationship with a seminarian. In the troubled world of the hospital, where the language of blood tests and organ systems so often hides the heart of the matter, she works her way from one bed to another, from a man...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Josie is timid at school, comfortable at home, and confident when she and her dog Clementine are volunteering at the pediatric ward of the local hospital; Oscar is acting out and in trouble at school, miserable at home, and forced to volunteer as a punishment; Gabby is popular at school, but her perfect life is threatened because she is hiding a dangerous medical condition--but at the hospital the three children are brought together by Clementine...
7) Wave
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
10) Charlatans
Author
Language
English
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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...
11) Fragments
Author
Series
Partials sequence volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Henry is visiting his grandmother in the hospital. When his nanny has to take a call, he decides to go on alone. He knows Grandma well, after all. But the hospital is bigger than he thought, and his visit becomes an adventure: up and down elevators, in and out of rooms. Now Henry isn't sure he will find Grandma after all. Down every corridor, Henry does find people to talk to: staff, patients, and visitors fill his journey with conversation, humor,...
13) The 5th horseman
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 5
Language
English
Description
It is a wild race against time as Lindsay's investigation reveals a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. While the hospital wages an explosive court battle, Lindsay and the Women's Murder Club must search for a merciless killer among its medical staff.
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Language
English
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Description
"Twenty-three-year-old Michael 'Mitt' Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he's always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die...
15) Big Bad Wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"A choking wolf is rushed to City Hospital, and a lost little girl in a red coat has been found, looking for her missing granny. What on earth did the wolf eat?"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Pandemic
Author
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish...
Author
Series
Claude books (Alex T. Smith) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When Claude, a small, plump dog, and his friend, Sir Bobblysock, visit the city Claude heroically, if accidentally, stops a thief, then, when Sir Bobblysock becomes ill, Claude rushes him to a hospital and is mistaken for a doctor.
18) Partials
Author
Series
Partials sequence volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the universally acclaimed debut novel "A Case of Exploding Mangoes," a subversive, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions, and love in the most unlikely places.
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