Showing results for "The Patient" in Genre Fiction

Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed. 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. An outsider himself, having been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, DS Cross is especially drawn to cases concerning the voiceless and the dispossessed. Now, Cross is untangling the truth about a young woman who died three days ago.

Danielle Rycroft suspects someone close to her has a dark secret. In the confidential setting of therapy, her patients share their anxieties and fears. Now, with a string of murders in town putting her on edge, Danielle’s own worries come close to eclipsing her patients’. In each case, the pattern is the same: parents killed while their children sleep blissfully unaware in their beds. Her best friend, Detective Tami Sloan, is the only person she has confided in.

On an unassuming evening, a stranger sits down at Olive Anderson's dinner table and pretends to be her wife. But as much as the fake wife has her secrets, Olive just might have more.

Step inside St. Ann’s Hospital—where secrets hide behind every door and death waits in the shadows. In this gripping 1929 mystery by acclaimed author Mignon G. Eberhart, nurse Sarah Keate is no stranger to troubled patients—but Room 18 is different. After a tense dinner party on a stormy night, the hospital is plunged into darkness. A patient is found dead. A vital radium treatment is missing. And whispers of murder swirl through the ward.

After a botched procedure leaves a young female patient permanently disfigured, Dr. Marks's pristine facade begins to crack. With a malpractice suit pending and her personal life in ruins, it makes sense that Selene is desperate for a reprieve. Only when she doesn't show for work one day-no call, no note-colleagues quickly realize she's not taking time off . . . she's missing.

I was taught that life is pain. That love is pain. It was unavoidable. Acceptable. I never had anything, or anyone I could count on. Not really. Not even myself. Until I met Dr Menon... To the outside world Lauren Taylor’s relationship with her boyfriend Josh is perfect. He is supportive and loving and has been there for Lauren during her darkest moments. But behind closed doors, secrets and lies can be hidden…

In this vintage locked-room murder-mystery, Nurse Sarah Keate is assigned to the at-home care of a man who recently had a stroke. While he is unconscious, on a dark and stormy night, a murder takes place in his bedroom. With family members and potential heirs confined to the house for several days, additional murders occur while the nurse and detective Lance O’Leary, work on solving the case.

De nieuwe standalone van de auteur van De Rode Koningin. Hoe ver ga jij om degene van wie je het meest houdt te redden? De prestigieuze neurochirurg David Evans staat voor een verschrikkelijk dilemma: als zijn volgende patiënt levend van de operatietafel komt, zal zijn eigen dochter sterven door toedoen van een psychopaat. De patiënt in kwestie is niemand minder dan de president van de Verenigde Staten. Evans krijgt 63 uur. In die tijd zal hij een onmogelijke keuze moeten maken die niet alleen zijn eigen leven, maar ook het leven van miljoenen mensen wereldwijd voorgoed kan veranderen.

In this thought-provoking short story by Robert Wicks, listeners will be taken on a journey to a future where a vaccination called the sanity vaccine threatens to erase everything that makes us unique. Join a young boy who dares to dream of writing poetry and creating art in a society that discourages such pursuits. As fears grow that the sanity vaccination is losing its effectiveness, the existence of Patient 926, untouched by the vaccine, raises questions about the importance of preserving creativity and individuality.

Eine Ärztin unter Anklage – ein KI-System unter Verdacht: »Der 1. Patient« ist der 4. Justiz-Krimi der Bestseller-Autoren Florian Schwiecker und Michael Tsokos, die für exklusive Insider-Einblicke in die Medizin der Zukunft, das Justizsystem und die Rechtsmedizin sorgen. Der neue Fall des Berliner Strafverteidigers Rocco Eberhardt sorgt für hitzige Debatten in den Medien: Eine Routine-Operation der Chefärztin Dr. Sasha Müller endet für den Patienten tödlich. Nach der Obduktion kommt Rechtsmediziner Justus Jarmer zu dem eindeutigen Schluss, dass ein Behandlungsfehler vorliegt.

A survivor of childhood trauma, two marriages, twenty hard years with the Seattle P.D. and the bottle, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has spent far too much time trolling the darker waters of human nature. In the wake of a devastating professional tragedy, he has decided, at long last, to pull the pin...

Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary...

The Love Letter was a beloved and bestselling novel, and She Is Me is a return to that winning form -- a novel about women's friendships, love, and family...

[Contains explicit content] This just in from The Onion, America's finest news source.... The U.S. is outraged after aliens land in Italy instead of Washington DC.