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Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is anticipating a quiet New Year's Eve when she is called to investigate the death of a reporter found in the murky waters of a Navy shipyard. Her findings about the cause of death sets the FBI onto the story the dead man was following, leading Scarpetta and everyone involved into the hands of a cult fanatic.
2) Nano
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Medical student Pia Grazdani, having taking a job at Nano, LLC, in Colorado hoping the break from her studies will help her deal with stress from the murder of her mentor and her reunion with her estranged father, begins to suspect the tech giant is using human guinea pigs in a race to find the biggest medical discovery of the twenty-first century and has sold out to a wealthy benefactor.
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Medical student Pia Grazdani, researching the creation of replacement organs for critically ill patients with the hopes of helping millions of people and overcoming an abusive childhood, teams up with classmate George Wilson to investigate a tragedy at the lab, while two ex-Wall Street whiz kids try to figure out a way to make money by manipulating private insurance information.
4) Charlatans
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"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....
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Green Writers Press / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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0.63 seconds.
That's the amount of time Angela Brennan has to process the oncoming truck that destroys half of her family and irrevocably alters her life.
Not long after the accident, death intervenes once more and snatches her remaining family member. Facing life alone, Angela returns to work as a cardiac surgeon, saving other people's lives, but questioning why hers was spared.
Desperate and distraught, Angela makes the decision to join her family...
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2014
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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...
8) Toxin
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.
9) ABC doctor
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Distributed by Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Illustrations and simple text present an ABC book that describes what happens when visiting the doctor.
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Morgan James Publishing
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English
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A veteran tells his story of suffering from traumatic brain injury—and finally finding relief.
Former Green Beret Andrew Marr served multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan—incurring dozens of traumatic brain injuries. It just about destroyed him and his family, and almost cost him his life.
After the military medical establishment repeatedly failed him, Marr called upon the initiative and determination...
Former Green Beret Andrew Marr served multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan—incurring dozens of traumatic brain injuries. It just about destroyed him and his family, and almost cost him his life.
After the military medical establishment repeatedly failed him, Marr called upon the initiative and determination...
11) Genesis
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English
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When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera...
12) The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich
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Hidden history volume 5
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English
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"Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality. "For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people -- one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s," says Thom Hartmann. Other countries...
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John August Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Dissenting Voices -- an Imprint of Abundant World Institute -- is dedicated to helping create and foster the conditions that enable human flourishing and abundance everywhere. To these ends, we seek to inspire, inform, educate, encourage, enable, and support the application of critical thinking, imagination, and innovation to global challenges. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is one global grand challenge that is on everyone's mind, and is likely to...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team members through the medical wringer with his trademark sarcasm and irreverent bedside manner.
19) Medical myths that can kill you: and the 101 truths that will save, extend, and improve your life
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Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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English
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This “searing and persuasive exposé of the American health care system” demonstrates the disastrous consequences of putting profit before people (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In this timely and important book, Mike Magee, M.D., sends out a “Code Blue” —an urgent medical emergency—for the American medical industry itself. A former hospital administrator and Pfizer executive, he has spent years investigating the...
In this timely and important book, Mike Magee, M.D., sends out a “Code Blue” —an urgent medical emergency—for the American medical industry itself. A former hospital administrator and Pfizer executive, he has spent years investigating the...
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