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I don't understand why the hospital director has insisted that Siena Collins work in oncology. She is a spoiled brat, unreliable, and causes too much trouble in a department where we must look into the eyes of death every day. To make matters worse, she can't even touch or talk to patients. She is still in medical school and considering quitting altogether.

Ein Kunstfehler bei einer Operation kostet eine Frau das Leben. Dr. Kate Chesne gerät unter Verdacht. Erst als eine weitere Frau stirbt, beginnt der Anwalt David Ransom zu ahnen, dass Kate unschuldig ist und das nächste Opfer sein könnte. Er spürt, dass die schöne Ärztin seine Hilfe braucht, und will alles tun, um sie zu beschützen.

Assisted dying is legalized after the NHS sell-off. Where does the killing stop? The sick and old are no longer a societal burden, healthcare costs plummet, and inventive end-of-life options emerge. Geraldine, Dawn, Jeffrey, and Woody each book their final journey at Go Gently's Charon House clinic. What they find doesn't match the brochure.

Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger. Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancee—takes his place, and Glenn will have to fight to prove he can be an astronaut once more. . .

Die Optimierung des Menschen ist das Geschäft der Zukunft. Eine kalifornische Firma verkauft Blutplasma-Verjüngungskuren, Tech-Riesen investieren Unsummen in die digitale Bewusstseinsspeicherung. Und ein russisches Unternehmen verspricht durch die Konservierung des eigenen Leichnams ein Leben nach dem Tod. Währenddessen stirbt in Seattle ein obdachloser Junge an Herzversagen. Als der deutsche Chirurg Michael Wild beginnt, Fragen zu stellen, verschwindet er von der Bildfläche.

Eighteen-year-old Anna is still learning how to live in the world outside Advocate Hospital where she spent months there as a psychiatric patient. As her high school friends and boyfriend Murph head off to college, Anna still struggles to overcome the wounds of her past while navigating the challenges of the future.

Maddie Stevens has never felt good enough. Not good enough to keep her parents' love. Not good enough to be independent and stop being her brother's problem. Not good enough to build the future she wants. When she injures her ankle before a ballet audition that could change her career forever, she's convinced her life is over at twenty-one. What's the point of having dreams when they can go down the drain at any moment? Because the universe has a cruel sense of humor, her physical therapist turns out to be a tank-shaped grouch who doesn't even seem to like her that much.

In Teaching Machines How to Cry, Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis explores the story of Alba, a young woman seeking answers for a feeling of longing she can’t explain, and M, an AI prototype. Alba was a child when she first spent time with M, until they were unexpectedly driven apart. As an adult, Alba slowly realises that M might hold the answers to her life-long yearning when she remembers that the last time she felt whole was as a child when she taught M how to cry.

In the year 2042, Dr. Seth Kelley, a dedicated emergency physician, is on the brink of burnout due to his demanding and high-stress career. Amidst an evolving healthcare landscape, the imminent rise of automated medical practitioners presents both challenges and opportunities. Seizing a chance to partake in this transformative movement, Seth accepts a position at a groundbreaking hospital conducting a clinical trial in the use of artificial intelligence to revolutionize patient care.

‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.

Medical treatment determined by artificial intelligence could do more than make Hope Kestrel's career. It could revolutionize healthcare. What the Seattle surgeon doesn't know is the AI has a hidden fatal flaw, and the people covering it up will stop at nothing to dominate the world's healthcare—and its profits. Soon, Hope is made the scapegoat for a patient's death, and only Jacie Stone, a gifted intern with a knack for computer science, is willing to help search for the truth.

Hackers can steal your money, control your car, or access your private files. What if one had a grip on your beating heart? Whatever. Clint Masters has his own problems. A city lies in ruins because Clint couldn't stop a psychopath. With his company in chaos, only a bottle of scotch tempers his misery. While his fiancé Beth wearies of his spiraling self-destruction, Clint seems unconcerned that his despondence will cost others their lives.

I can’t believe it when I learn my donor’s identity. The attack on Flora was all over the news. From my hospital bed I read every article, obsess over every word and soon I feel like I know her: the beautiful girl with flame-colored hair, adored by everyone around her. Why would anyone hurt someone so perfect? When Flora’s family reach out to me, I’m unsure. My hands are shaking as I arrive at their grand mansion with its golden stone and sprawling gardens, but they’re warm and welcoming, tears shining in her mother’s eyes as she smiles at me.

Michael, now a psychologist, has a past that’s catching up with him at the same time an unsatisfied patient is planning his revenge. Justin, now practicing from his home office, has a patient consumed by the fear of death—a young man scared of just about everything—including fear itself. As both father and son deal with their patients’ problems and own internal challenges, they also struggle daily with Mandy’s health issue, a potentially deadly illness that threatens to take away the most important woman in their lives.

A young woman, dealing with a rare disease called Vaskin’s Disease (self-dehydration), comes to a realization that living in sin and self-destruct isn’t the way of life. Her epiphany and final brush with death has made her change her ways, find God, and journey through the scary unknown. But with friends, family, and God, Olivine just may conquer her addiction after all.

Following a control breach at a top-secret facility, a weapons grade biological pathogen, YPP-234, escapes and quickly spirals out of control. It is deadly, it is fast, and it goes unnoticed until it is too late. YPP-234 isn’t just a manmade biological weapon, it is a manmade extinction level event. Now it is out.

Protagonista di questo libro allegro e disperato è Learco Ferrari, scrittore ormai non più aspirante nonché alter ego dell'autore, giunto alla quinta puntata della sua saga. Vittima di un incidente automobilistico, si trova ricoverato nel reparto Grandi ustionati dell'ospedale di Parma, dove deve riapprendere i gesti della quotidianità. Un romanzo medico molto sui generis, pieno di situazioni paradossali che restituisce, attraverso una folla di voci e volti, il totale nonsense della realtà.

Жизнь врача сплетена из сирен Скорой, счастливых слёз родственников излеченных пациентов и горьких, увы горьких слёз тех, чьих близких не получилось спасти, острых шуток в ординаторской, новогодних вечеринок в отделении, лекарственного запаха операционных и тревожных звуков реанимации. И каждый случай, каждый пациент оставляют свой след. Автор живым языком делится удивительными историями: они дарят тепло и надежду, будоражат и заставляют задуматься, окунают читателя в мир хирургии и раскрывают детали врачебных будней.

Eine dramatische Häufung unerklärlicher Nebenwirkungen ruft die WHO-Expertin Dr. Laura Delille auf den Plan. Unfruchtbarkeit, Fehlgeburten und Tod greifen um sich. Erste Spuren führen zu einem neuartigen genbasierten Impfstoff. Doch als sich die Symptome weiter verschlimmern und auch Menschen erkranken, die nie damit geimpft wurden, wird klar: Hier geht es um mehr als krasse Nebenwirkungen. Während Laura den rätselhaften Ursachen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent nachspürt, heftet sich der Reporter Hugh Stevens an ihre Fersen.

Sharon Stevenson is a forensic psychiatrist. Her job is to decide whether a patient is of sound enough mind to stand trial, not whether they did or didn’t commit a crime. But Sharon is also a mother grieving the disappearance of her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maddie, who has never been found. And what if the man sitting before her, who has been charged with the murders of several women, also claimed the life of her sweet girl? It’s time to find out the truth.