Medical

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate....

She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA’s newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly, a.k.a. sexy surgeon, a.k.a. the biggest jerk she ever loved....

DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force....

When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated....

One suicide. Every year. Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her....

Celia de Gray makes inroads as the first saleswoman for Felding-Roth Pharmaceutical Company, but uncovers scandals....

In this medical thriller, three female doctors struggle to survive in a San Francisco hospital's “boy's club,” as they encounter the challenges of the medical profession, a murder charge, and a deadly wager....

இன்றைக்கு செயற்கை கருத்தரிப்பு நிலையங்கள் எக்கச்சக்கமாக நாட்டில் பெருகி இருக்கின்றன....

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her....

Röntgenhoitaja Laura Aromaan rauhallinen iltavuoro muuttuu painajaiseksi, kun hänen kimppuunsa hyökätään Vaahteran sairaalan...

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi....

The President’s teenage son is threatened by a potentially fatal illness that is rooted in dark secrets from a long-buried past....

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where 12 eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned....

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller....

Der junge kalifornische Paläontologe Levine ist von der Idee besessen, dass die Dinosaurier gar nicht ausgestorben sind...

Grausame Verbrechen im ländlichen Idyll: Kay Scarpetta ermittelt. Der grausame Mord an der elfjährigen Emily Steiner schockiert die Kleinstadt Black...

The complete classic 1960s comedy about a newly qualified young doctor and his two best friends, Taffy Evans and Tony Benskin, stars Richard Briers....

X Ways to Die continues the tense, multi-stranded story which begun with Motive X. It is at once an explosive, high-voltage thriller and a fearless exploration of the darkest side of human nature.... 

This set contains books seven to nine in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Ritual Demise, Mortal Remains, and Silent Graves....

In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks....

Livsmedelsverket kallar till krismöte. Små blå blommor har dykt upp överallt. Ingen vet var de kommer ifrån, men de slår snabbt ut...

A portrait of a talented and courageous woman physician who stares at her reflection in the glass ceiling, and decides to seek and find a more meaningful life....

Ein Krankenhaus, vier todkranke Jugendliche und die Hoffnung, die immer bei ihnen ist. Poetisch, sanft, schmerzhaft direkt und voller roher Gefühle...

Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered....

Melina, che detesta essere chiamata Carmela, cresce i suoi tre figli con una dedizione assoluta, a tratti ingombrante. Conosce il sacrificio e la fatica ma reagisce sprizzando vitalità e schiettezza. È una tifosa fanatica di calcio, sa citare a memoria scene e interpreti di innumerevoli film, inventa indimenticabili scherzi telefonici. Finché la sua salute non viene compromessa da un tumore al seno, tabù impronunciabile che nelle parole del figlio maggiore diventa tuamore, trasformando un presagio di sventura in una speranza possibile.

Selbst auf einer paradiesischen Insel lauert tödliche Gefahr – ein neuer Fall für die Forensikerin Tempe Brennan. Eine Reihe bizarrer Mordfälle führt die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan auf die karibischen Turks- und Caicos-Inseln. Stehen die grausam verstümmelten Leichen junger amerikanischer Touristen in Zusammenhang mit Bandenkriminalität? Je tiefer Tempe recherchiert, desto beunruhigendere Dimensionen nimmt der Fall an. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Mittelpunkt einer Verschwörung wieder, die viele Hunderte Menschenleben kosten könnte.

Selbst auf einer paradiesischen Insel lauert tödliche Gefahr – ein neuer Fall für die Forensikerin Tempe Brennan. Eine Reihe bizarrer Mordfälle führt die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan auf die karibischen Turks- und Caicos-Inseln. Stehen die grausam verstümmelten Leichen junger amerikanischer Touristen in Zusammenhang mit Bandenkriminalität? Je tiefer Tempe recherchiert, desto beunruhigendere Dimensionen nimmt der Fall an. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Mittelpunkt einer Verschwörung wieder, die viele Hunderte Menschenleben kosten könnte.

Dopo quella notte, niente è più stato lo stesso. 15 anni fa, dopo che una serata di festa è stata distrutta da una violenta aggressione, Sara Linton ha deciso di rivoluzionare la sua vita. Adesso è una dottoressa di successo, fidanzata con l’uomo che ama. Il passato è definitivamente alle spalle. O almeno così spera. Finché una sera, durante un turno in pronto soccorso, Sara viene chiamata a visitare una ragazza che è stata brutalmente assalita.

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

Camille is a nurse specialising in supporting families through the difficult decision to donate the organs of their dying loved ones. Camille's mother is a gifted but uncompromising transplant surgeon determined to make it in a man's world until her own life falls apart. And Camille herself is a mother to Addie–five years old, critically ill and in desperate need of the very organs her mother and grandmother work with.

A former child prodigy, she has been educated in one of the best medical schools under the supervision of the prestigious Daniela McKenna. At the age of twenty-seven, she moved from Boston to Los Angeles in search of a smaller hospital that would allow her to grow faster as a surgeon. Little did she expect that by a quirk of fate, she would find herself as interim chief of surgery, fighting for the permanent position against much more experienced doctors.

For software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, his private compound on the Florida coast is a sunny no-man’s-land separating his family from the rest of the world. Now, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the renowned Locard Institute have been summoned to its dark side. Martin’s pregnant daughter, Ashley, had ventured on a day trip in her motorboat into the Gulf, only to wash up dead on a nearby shore. Although the local coroner determined her death was an accident, Ellie and Rachael soon confirm Martin’s gravest fear: His daughter was murdered.

Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital. Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, as she and her fellow trainees deal with the common and the bizarre, the hilarious and the tragic, the treatable and the confronting.

Wenn das Schicksal einen grausamen Plan für dich hat. Ist Spastik heilbar? Ben ist seit seiner Geburt Spastiker und wird immer wieder mit dieser Frage konfrontiert. Das Schicksal hält eine grauenhafte Antwort für ihn bereit. Ben hat einen schweren Autounfall, bei dem seine Beine völlig zerstört werden. Er liegt im Koma, und die Ärzte sind sich nicht sicher, ob er wieder erwacht und wenn ja, wie wird der Heilungsprozess mit seiner Krankheit harmonieren? In Amerika in scheint es Hoffnung zu geben. Ein Hirnforscher ist dabei, Elektroden zu entwickeln, die dem Patienten helfen sollen.

Friends for most of their lives, Rob, Julia, and Ray are boomers who set out in their twenties to make things right in America. A couple since law school, Rob is a distinguished Constitutional scholar at Harvard and Julia a prominent journalist writing a book about the wreckage of the nation’s political life, while Ray serves as dean of the medical school. Ray’s work as a physician in a Vietnam combat zone left him scarred yet with a powerful and loving commitment to heal and to support his friends through tragedy.

Finding out the truth can be a deadly business... When DCI Jude Satterthwaite is tasked with protecting the contentious Cody Wilder in Grasmere, it quickly turns into a daunting case when her assistant is found hanged in their shared cottage. Amidst a sea of tourists and free-spirited locals in his Lake District home, the trail of trouble following Cody pushes DCI Satterthwaite's investigation down the hidden paths of those he knows, and those he never knew even existed... A thrilling third mystery for DCI Jude Satterthwaite to solve, in this gripping novel by best-seller Jo Allen.

Ein verschworenes Dorf. Eine Reihe mysteriöser Morde. Eine abgelegene Villa mit einem dunklen Geheimnis. In einer Gaststätte nahe dem Dorf Wüstrup taucht eines Nachts ein blutüberströmter Mann auf und bricht tot zusammen. Kriminalkommissar Christoph Harms soll klären, ob es sich um Mord oder einen Unfall handelt. Nur einen Tag später wird ein Mann bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt. Christoph ahnt, dass es nicht bei zwei Toten bleiben wird. Tatsächlich erlangt der Ermittler bald Gewissheit, dass ein Serienmörder in Wüstrup seine blutige Fährte legt. 

Новый роман от автора "Бойни" — уникальный триллер в духе Артура Хейли о медицинском эксперименте, который пошел наперекосяк. История о силе любви и хрупкости человеческой личности. Биохимик Селия Йенсен в составе команды исследователей из Гарварда работает над новым лекарством от болезни Альцгеймера. У Селии есть и личная заинтересованность ­— ее отец болен, и она готова пойти на все, чтобы вылечить его. Фармакологи полны оптимизма, первые тестирования лекарства проходят успешно. Исследование переходит к третьей фазе — испытаниях на больных.

Larguer les amarres pour mieux se reconstruire... Alexis n’a plus rien à voir avec le jeune urgentiste passionné qu’il était : brisé par ses missions humanitaires, il a perdu goût à la vie et foi en son métier. Lorsqu’on l’appelle pour remplacer l’unique médecin généraliste sur l’île de Groix, en Bretagne, c’est à reculons qu’il s’y installe, ignorant tout des merveilleuses promesses que cette destination lui réserve.