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Women's Murder Club volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital, and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospital's reputation.
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English
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"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War ... Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing training. On the battlefields, she and the other nurses find themselves up against corruption, opposition and wounded men such as they have never seen before. Charlotte's life intersects with that of an Irish immigrant...
3) Cell
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English
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"The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical...
5) Nano
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Series
Language
English
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Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.
6) Life support
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Dr. Toby Harper, on overnight rotation at Springer Hospital, uncovers what appears to be a deadly epidemic.
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Judy Moody volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
It's no secret that Judy wants to be like Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor, when she grows up. So when class 3T starts to study the Amazing Human Body, Judy can hardly wait to begin her better-than-best-ever third-grade projects: show and tell with something way rarer than a scab, a real-live, ooey-gooey operation, and a cloning experiment that may create double trouble for Judy and her friends.
8) Viral
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English
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"Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease seemingly...
9) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta uses forensic medicine to try to catch the killer of five young women.
10) Marker
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Series
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English
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Investigating a series of deaths that have taken place among seemingly healthy young people after routine surgeries, doctors Montgomery and Stapleton confront institutional politics that prevent them from proving that the deaths were intentional.
11) Foreign body
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Hernandez, a medical student, hears on the news that her grandmother has died after a hip replacement in New Delhi; Jennifer, reaching out to her mentor, medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, presses for more information and heads to India.
12) Cure
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
" ... New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game ..."--Page 2 of cover.
13) Charlatans
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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) Doctor Nice
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Doctor Nice spends a busy morning helping his patients with various winter ailments, including Moose, who caught cold after falling through the ice, and the goat kids, who have headaches from head-butting while playing hockey.
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English
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"In this exhilarating medical mystery-thriller by Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist is murdered. Colleagues turned spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with crazy work schedules and family pressures. The last thing they need is a murder. When Laurie's longtime friend, by all accounts healthy Dr. Sue Passero, dies mysteriously...
16) The select
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Quinn Cleary is delighted to be accepted into the medical school of her dreams, but she begins to worry about the way all of her classmates seem to fall in line with the messianic vision of the school's director. Then she discovers the true mission of this very fine research center.
17) Do no harm
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Spier, head of the ER at the UCLA Medical Center, is caught in a media frenzy when the man who assaulted two of Spier's colleagues becomes a patient.
18) Death benefit
Author
Series
Pia Grazdani volume 1
Language
English
Description
Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...
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English
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"As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans...
20) MASH
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, 'a few flipped their...
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