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1) Life support
Author
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.
2) Crisis
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When Boston-based Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical negligence, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who has endured grueling years of training and worked continuously in the service of others, he is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time with each one just to keep his office door open, he...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A medical thriller on a health insurance scam to murder patients who cost too much money. It features Dr. Harry Corbett, a Vietnam War vet, whose wife has died mysteriously. When he discovers that, unknown to him, she was investigating such a racket, he starts a probe of his own and immediately his life is in danger. By the author of Natural Causes.
4) Seizure
Author
Language
English
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Description
Chairing a subcommittee aimed at banning new cloning technology, Senator Ashley Butler clashes with scientist Daniel Lowell, until Butler develops Parkinson's disease and joins with Lowell to prematurely harness the new technology.
5) Bloodstream
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A murderous outbreak of violence among teenagers occurs in a resort in Maine. Dr. Claire Elliot blames a brain-damaging parasite which attacks people when they swim in the lake, but the town ignores her call for a quarantine, fearing for the tourist trade. By the author of Life Support.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Dr. Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. Psych nurse Gillian Coates wants to find her sister's killer. She does not believe that Belle Coates, an ICU nurse, took her own life, even though every bit of evidence indicates that she did, every bit save one. Together, Nick and Gillian...
7) Fatal
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Returning to his Virginia home to investigate the tragic deaths of his wife and father, a young maverick doctor encounters a series of suspicious accidents that reveal a bizarre syndrome that could place countless lives at risk.
8) Cure
Author
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.
9) 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.
10) The patient
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Blackmailed by a master assassin to agree to perform life-saving surgery on the killer, famous neurosurgeon Jesse Copeland struggles with the choice between saving a terrorist's life or the lives of those he threatens.
11) Marker
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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.
12) Vector
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A disgruntled Russian immigrant joins forces with extremists from the People's Aryan Army to launch a campaign of terror against New York with anthrax. Two forensic pathologists get wind of the scheme and go after him. By the author of Chromosome 6.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Reunited with his former Annapolis roommate, Andrew Stoddard--now president of the United States--when he is asked to become his personal physician, Gabe Singleton discovers that Andrew is going insane and that the condition may not be the result of natural causes.
Author
Series
Nora Beady volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"When Dr. Croft takes in orphan Eleanor Beady, he doesn't realize that he's gained an apprentice. Raised amidst Croft's experiments, "Nora" becomes his most trusted assistant-an unthinkable and unlawful pursuit for a woman. Nora helps Croft's groundbreaking research and his clinic gain recognition, and she finds she doesn't mind working in the background, as long as she can continue to hone her skills. But the arrival of a new surgical resident threatens...
15) Heart and soul
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Series
Language
English
Description
A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.
16) Critical
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at the age of thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy as a primary-care internist. Painfully aware of the role of economics in modern life, particularly in the health-care...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
©1988.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe and her friend, Dr. Shelley Reinish, had brilliant careers at a prestigious New York hospital. But now Shelley is dead, and Evelyn suspects foul play. And most chilling of all, Evelyn realizes she is being stalked by the murderer in a horrifying game of cat and mouse.
18) Matilda Bone
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the remains of a dismembered woman in a Virginia landfill, she receives an e-mail message from the killer inviting her to download photos of the victim. By the author of Hornet's Nest.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order,...
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