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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?

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.

Chance Hightower wakes up in the emergency room without knowledge of how he got there or what is happening to him. The claustrophobic 22-year-old is told that he has been in an ATV accident, and medical staff is preparing tests.

After their treacherous trip from Utah to California, Matt, Jessica and their friends can finally take a breath. The Miller’s farm in the San Joaquin Valley seems like the perfect place to create a new home. That is, until they find out what the Emperors are up to.

It started as a new virus. Before long, 95% of the world's population was dead. When a deadly flu sweeps the globe, the Bronson family hunkers down to wait it out. It doesn't take long for society to collapse, but when surviving neighbors band together, hope is restored. That hope is swiftly shattered when a rogue element forms, requiring food in exchange for security and medical services.

Una serie di spaventosi incendi devasta le abitazioni di Warrenton in Virginia, e, tra le rovine fumanti, gli investigatori trovano ogni volta il corpo carbonizzato di giovani donne. L'ufficio legale di Richmond è impegnato in un frenetico e macabro lavoro sui cadaveri alla ricerca di qualche indizio che conduca all'assassino. Kay Scarpetta teme di conoscere il colpevole. Intanto intorno a lei e ai suoi collaboratori qualcuno prepara silenziosamente una trappola mortale.

Fin da bambino Ferdinando ha odiato la morte al punto da fare della salvezza la sua ossessione di medico. Ma una vocazione così grande, scontrandosi con le iniquità subite, non può che fallire e trovare casa nella follia. Olga, nella sua infanzia a Rostov, ha dovuto misurarsi proprio con l'alienazione materna, quintessenza di Storia e fragilità. Unico scampo da essa la fuga, frenata da una radice nascosta sotto la neve e dalla zoppia, che diventa destino e comunione con l'imperfetto. Ma si può vivere a un passo dall'ideale?

Sloan Hastings es adoptada y nunca quiso localizar a sus padres biológicos. Ahora está investigando para su tesis sobre patología forense y decide enviar su ADN a una empresa de genealogía. Los resultados de su búsqueda son impactantes. El perfil de ADN de Sloan sugiere que su verdadera identidad es Charlotte Margolis, también conocida como “bebé Charlotte”. Este caso conmovió al país cuando desapareció misteriosamente junto a sus padres hace treinta años.

From her office in Manhattan, Hadley is preparing for her twenty-second wedding anniversary. She surprises her husband, Bergen, with a gift to get their genomes sequenced to proactively counter any disease risks. In the East Village, twenty-seven-year-old Rachel reluctantly goes to therapy for her panic attacks and flashbacks from a college rape. Her mother is overprotective, and her father has left the family. When the genome results come back, Hadley learns her fate and spirals into depression. Her family struggles to help while grieving her mental decline.

When Laurie Montgomery temporarily steps down from her position as Chief Medical Examiner at the OCME to get a break from office politics, she and Jack decide to embark on a weekend getaway. And the timing couldn't be better when they receive a call from Jack's old peer, Robert Neilson MD, about two strange deaths and their potential association with the upswing in Alzheimer's cases in Essex Falls. Deciding this is just what the doctor ordered, Laurie and Jack agree to help, and head upstate.

The threat of nuclear war is no longer scary. This is much worse. It's invisible. It works quickly. And it's coming. The scourge has already infected and killed half the population in China and it is heading towards the UK. There is no time to escape. The British government sees no way out other than to distribute 'Dignity Pills' to its citizens – one last night with family or loved ones before going to sleep forever … together.

In 1856 Boston, Katherine Ann Taylor was the picture of a perfect daughter—until she defied her father. Declared mentally unfit, she is forcibly committed to Ridgefield Asylum, a place where disobedient women are silenced under the guise of care. Stripped of her freedom, subjected to cruel treatments, and haunted by the eerie presence of Dr. Julian Aldridge, Katherine struggles to hold onto her sanity as Ridgefield threatens to consume her. Beyond the asylum’s iron gates, those who love Katherine refuse to let her disappear.

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Trowbridge Vermont EMT Brighid Doran delivers the region’s ambulance to a three-alarm house fire. Afterward, she sits in a warm truck with her girlfriend Sam, a US Army officer fresh from the battlefields of Iraq, as they watch a local volunteer firefighter battle the blast in subzero weather.

Helen Vardon gesteht, die Schuld am Tod ihres Mannes auf sich geladen zu haben. Für Scotland Yard ist der Fall eindeutig: Die grausame Frau machte ihrem Mann das Leben zur Ehe-Hölle und trieb ihn mit allen Mitteln suggestiven Psycho-Terrors in den Selbstmord. Einzig Dr. Thorndyke, der mit diesem Fall aus medizinischer Sicht betraut wird, hegt Zweifel am Wahrheitsgehalt dieses Geständnisses.

Ruben Hornby ist verzweifelt: Der Abdruck seines Daumens, den man am Tatort findet, belastet ihn schwer. Und doch schwört der junge Mann, unschuldig zu sein. Für Scotland Yard aber liegt der Fall buchstäblich auf der Hand: Hornby stahl die Diamanten aus dem Safe seines Onkels, verletzte sich in einem Moment der Unachtsamkeit und hinterließ dabei unfreiwillig den Daumenabdruck, der den Täter zweifelsfrei identifiziert. Hornby greift in seiner Not nach einem letzten Strohhalm: Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke.

Vesper Harrow verlässt London, um einige Tage im Ferienhaus ihrer Eltern am Meer zu verbringen. Doch in Hensgrove verliert sich jede Spur der Neunzehnjährigen. Dr. Thorndyke macht sich auf den. Weg, das ungewisse Schicksal des Mädchens aufzuklären. Jäh muss er begreifen, dass er in diesem Fall mit den herkömmlichen Methoden nicht weiterkommt - denn sein unsichtbarer Gegner. verwandelt Hensgrove und das abgelegene New Inn 31 in eine lebendige Hölle. Einzig die mysteriöse Berenice scheint die Wahrheit zu kennen, doch auch sie hütet ein blutiges Geheimnis...

In life, it's always the goal to be the most loved, respected, and adored. The favorite, if you will. However, Demi Rao has realized that being the favorite isn't always a dream come true. Being the favorite can be your worst nightmare. After barely escaping, Demi finds herself at the gorgeous, one-of-a-kind, exclusive resort run by her former psychopath boss, Dr. Ivory's younger brother.

In this third book of Nora Brady’s adventure, Nora and her friend Tina are now in Dublin, Ireland, on a work-study phase of their student-nursing program. Charmed by life in Dublin, Nora soon learns that even there people can have a dark side. After meeting fellow students Ailish and Maire, who are cousins of her friend from home, Dan Maguire—the police detective in Jacobsport—she once again becomes entangled in a web of politics, lost jewels, and murder. This time, however, she has help from above.