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Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession . . . until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of mysterious bodies, mangled by some unknown force. Galen is a paladin of a dead god, lost to holiness and no longer entirely sane. He has long since given up on any hope of love. But when the two men and a brave gnole constable are drawn into the maze of the mysterious killer, it's Galen's job to protect Piper from the traps that await.

The most lethal virus in history has begun its spread to the mainland US. Fast-spreading and with the ability to take over the host's immune system, the pathogen seems unstoppable. Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control has encountered the virus before, and it nearly cost her her life. A mysterious man is killing those who could stop the virus. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, his motivations are unclear. And he has chosen a new target: Samantha Bower.

A lethal pathogen appears on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control is handed the case and asked to investigate its origins and containment. Samantha discovers a lethal pathogen unlike any she has encountered in her lifetime. Extremely contagious with a mortality rate higher than any disease ever recorded, it is an extinction level event. A man with an intimate knowledge of the microorganism offers her help. But Samantha Bower begins to suspect he is not who he says he is.

After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike.

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia, can't help but wonder why she received a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified.

A deadly virus - and a desperate race against time. One spring morning in New York City a 17-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose and she begins to attack her own body in the most hideous way imaginable. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the autopsies reveal that a previously unknown virus is at large. It replicates horribly fast, it is always fatal - and is just too efficient to be entirely natural.

Join a small crew of EMTs and paramedics (characters from The Little Ambulance War of Winchester County) who undertake a hilarious and disgusting anatomy refresher as part of their on-going training requirements. Given the location (rural Vermont) and the season (hunting season), the crew explores the heart and lungs of a deer.

In a world tethered to technology, freedom hangs by a thread. Dr. Alexander Cade created NeuroAxis to heal—an advanced neural implant meant to restore mobility and eliminate pain. But when a security breach in his clinic reveals a chilling truth, Cade realizes his work has been corrupted: the technology meant to save lives is now hijacking minds. Teaming up with Sarah Voss, a brilliant hacker haunted by her past, and Detective Sam Torres, a skeptic chasing digital phantoms, Cade uncovers a global conspiracy built not on care, but control.

A clergyman is murdered in his bed in the dead of night, triggering a chilling chain of events, each more bizarre and unnerving than the last – brutal killings, corpses vanishing, decomposed bodies digging their way out of graves. These shocking events seem unconnected but, at each scene, people report witnessing swarms of flies – hundreds, thousands, even millions of them.

„Der Tod ist weiß wie Schnee.“ Der Kampf um Leben und Tod ist der Alltag der ehrgeizigen Unfallchirurgin Lisa Wenger. Doch dieser Job fordert immer mehr seinen Tribut – Lisa muss nachhelfen, um die anstrengenden Schichten durchzustehen und mehr als einmal überschätzt sie ihre eigenen Kräfte. So auch, als sie auf dem nächtlichen Weg nach Hause einen schrecklichen Unfall verursacht. Von nun an kann Lisa dabei zusehen, wie ihr einst erfolgreiches Leben zerbricht: Sie leidet unter Schuldgefühlen, verliert ihren Job und gerät in den Fokus polizeilicher Ermittlungen .

A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void. FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.

Guilty or innocent? The verdict could go either way. Trying to deal with a difficult, evasive, entitled client and her overprotective uncle—Attorney Angel Cisneros’s senior partner who expects an acquittal—Angel fears he’ll lose the case and his job at the high-priced criminal defense practice where he works. Accused of stabbing a surgeon to death, operating room nurse Mia Stewart has a hard time telling the truth about what happened or her relationship with the surgeon. The circumstantial evidence is overwhelmingly against her despite Mia’s insistence that she’s innocent.

Hjärtspecialisten Sara Zuckerman behärskar avancerade ingrepp till fullo. Trots en god prognos dör ändå en av hennes patienter två dagar efter genomförd operation. Kort därefter dör ytterligare en patient. Det visar sig att det lilla chip–hjärtstartaren–som opererats in i patienterna har varit infekterat av ett datavirus. Någon har medvetet manipulerat den digitala tekniken. Stora ekonomiska värden står på spel och det framgångsrika amerikanska företaget Mercury Medical, liksom dess grundare och ägare Otto Schultz, ställs inför en annalkande katastrof…

Set against industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970's, the normal healthy camaraderie of the City Hospital is lost as the dispute sets nurse against nurse and doctor against doctor. Operations are cancelled, waiting lists spiral out of control and patient's lives are put at risk. Kate and Paul are saddened that so many of their colleagues are prepared to become involved. Hadn't they agreed to abide by the Hippocratic Oath with its simple message 'First do no harm'?

A collection of short medical stories about medical misadventures in the daily life of medical professionals.

In this collection of medical tales, the training of one slightly naive young trainee is viewed through the experiences of the patients he treats as he embarks on this most challenging of careers. We share his joy when things go well, his anguish when they don’t and learn that, at the end of the day, compassion and a sense of humour make wonderful medicine.

Platt's Gulch, 1902, The Southwest Territory: The Judge arrives into town to find the people suffering from an illness that's more virulent than Ebola and yet not contagious. Some of the survivors seem to be changing—they aren't quite themselves anymore. The Judge must find the source to find a cure before the whole town is wiped out. Does the strange glow in the sky have anything to do with it? Will she come to terms with her dark past as she fights to save the small town?

A surgeon is found dead in Washington Square Park. Murdered. Who would murder a surgeon in cold blood? Ojo Jenachukwu, an inventor, is framed for the killing. He and his business partner, Derek Cannon, will unravel the shocking scenario that resulted in this murder while doing everything they can to prevent their own. A multitude of clever inventions play pivotal roles uncovering evidence that proves Ojo's innocence while infiltrating the depraved world of NEXUS.

Whilst Paul and Kate work alongside each other as doctor and nurse on the surgical ward, strains in their relationship emerge. And when Kate's baby dies and Paul's inexperience costs lives, doubt and despair hang in the air and their marriage appears to be doomed.

El médico de urgencias AJ Docker no es ajeno a la violencia, pero la brutal tortura y asesinato de una joven paciente inocente exige una respuesta. Junto con su amigo policía y un perro policía, se embarca en una búsqueda de justicia para su paciente fallecida.