Medical Fiction

Die Oberschwester lächelte. "Glauben Sie, dass Sie von 9 bis 15.30 Uhr arbeiten können?" Einen Moment lang konnte ich mein Glück gar nicht fassen. Es schien mir nicht richtig zu sein, für so einen kurzen Arbeitstag bezahlt zu werden. Der zweite Weltkrieg ist zu Ende und der Alltag kehrt langsam wieder ein. Die Männer sind von der Front zurück und viele Frauen können zuhause bei ihren Kindern bleiben. Doch das Geld ist knapp und Evelyn merkt schnell, dass sie einen Teilzeitjob finden muss, um über die Runden zu kommen. Zu ihrem Erstaunen wird ihr tatsächlich eine Teilzeitstelle in ihrem ehemaligen Krankenhaus angeboten.

After his mother dies, Tim Daniels must graduate from veterinarian school, find a job, pay-off his loans, keep his girlfriend content, and try to keep his head…all while removing a designer purse from a dog’s stomach. Just another Tuesday morning….

Lorenzo Sartori è uno psicoterapeuta di circa trent'anni, razionale ma inquieto, ansioso di imparare, di crescere, di migliorarsi. È per questo che quando i suoi primi pazienti gli sbattono la porta in faccia, inizia a chiedersi quale sia il problema. Il problema, capirà poi, era in parte suo, aveva molti luoghi oscuri interni da illuminare.

Precocious and pretty Maxine Gilbert is a clever and talented nine-year-old, adored by a doting father. She is also cruel, sadistic and without remorse, delighting in manipulating others and torturing small animals. When her mother is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, Maxine is disgusted, not just by her mother’s disability, but by the inconvenience it brings. Watching a nurse care for her mother, Maxine learns that nurses can hurt or heal. Maxine decides to be a nurse when she grows up.

The Pulitzer Prize novel describes the tradeoffs between medical research & money making & much more.

Berührende Schicksale und dunkle Geheimnisse im Hamburg der Kaiserzeit – Teil 4 der spannenden Bestsellerserie um die Hafenärztin. Hamburg im Herbst 1911: Bei ihrer Arbeit am Hamburger Hafen wird Anne Fitzpatrick zunehmend mit Süchtigen konfrontiert. Sie beginnt, nach den Hintermännern zu suchen, und bringt sich damit unvermutet in Gefahr – doch auch ihre Freundin Ju lebt gefährlich. Die Chinesin gerät in den Dunstkreis eines Triaden und macht eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung. Kommissar Berthold Rheydt ist währenddessen mit eigenen Problemen konfrontiert.

Early one morning in a Vermont emergency room, Martin Wennar dies of cardiac arrest despite the best efforts of the staff to save him. Having suffered from senile dementia and the frequent falls that accompanied the condition, no one is surprised when the 70-year-old man passes away. His primary care physician, Jon Ziebaska, is very surprised, however, when he receives word that Martin's wife, Kathy, is suing him for malpractice.

The AIDS Quilt will be on display in June 2021 for the 40th anniversary of the first cases, but it will be its last appearance as ordered by the heavy hand of the President of the United States. Nine nurses who worked with AIDS patients during the early years of the pandemic travel to Washington, D.C. to see the Quilt.

Set against the backdrop of a large London teaching hospital, Brain Fog delves into the life of Andrew Payne, a highly successful neurosurgeon who has everything on the outside, yet on the inside is not ok.

Vanderbilt-Hospital, Nashville 1940: Dr. Dorothy Millicent Horstmann fällt auf unter den Ärzten der Klinik. Sie ist 1,85 m groß. Und sie ist eine Frau - meistens die einzige im Raum. Dorothy hat Großes vor: Sie will die Kinderlähmung bezwingen, die so viel Leid im ganzen Land verursacht. Zu viele Patienten hat sie in der Eisernen Lunge um Luft ringen und sterben sehen. Dorothy kennt nur ein Ziel : Das Polio-Virus auszulöschen, durch Heilung oder einen Impfstoff. Die berühmten Forscher in ihrem Umfeld zweifeln an ihrer These zur Ausbreitung des Virus im Körper, aber sie wird ihnen beweisen, dass sie recht hat - um jeden Preis.

A talented and devoted anesthesiologist with a coveted academic position. A lovely, accomplished financial analyst with a glamorous social life, a high-rise apartment, and a dirty little secret. A chance encounter, a night of passion, and a confessed preference for opioids.

Od kiedy jej brat odebrał sobie życie po pierwszej wojnie światowej, Ruth Emeraldine decyduje się pomagać ludziom cierpiącym z powodu chorób psychicznych. Zakochuje się w charyzmatycznym Robercie Apterze – genialnym lekarzu i orędowniku nowej radykalnej terapii – lobotomii. Ruth wierzy, że jest to cudowny lek. Kiedy jednak jej mąż traci kontrolę nad sobą i wpada w złudną megalomanię, Ruth nie może dłużej ignorować swoich rosnących podejrzeń. Robert operuje pacjentów nie zważając na nic, często z przerażającymi rezultatami, a wrażliwa młoda matka Margaret Baxter ma się stać jego kolejną ofiarą.

I wrote this novel in 1995, when medical genetics was starting to bloom. It was the beginning of gene identification to discover the causes of many inherited diseases. Prior to that time, there was no genetic research development to help doctors choose the appropriate drug to treat a particular disease.

Three years after Daniel was killed by a senseless act of violence, all his sisters have left of him are their memories - and responsibility for Daniel's mischievous dachshund John Thomas. Daniel donated his organs, his death facilitating life-saving miracles for other families, while his own loved ones struggle to come to terms with their devastating loss, each at a crossroads of her own.

The Theory of Irv provides a suspenseful journey through not just the storyline of the book’s plot, but an overview of American health policy. How it came to be a hundred years ago. How it has adapted in the last several decades. Perhaps more importantly, how we can fix it so we can have better health and health care for all Americans into the future.

For paramedics Tash and Joel, a regular workday is like a supercut of the worst days of other people’s lives. They maintain their sanity through a friendship built on black humour, but as the constant exposure to trauma takes its toll, both, in different ways, must fight to preserve their mental health and relationships - even with one another. How much pressure can they handle, and what will happen when they finally crack?

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.

In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may never wake. His mothers rush across the continent to his bedside where they endure the strain of helpless waiting. As the tense hospital vigil continues day after day and they vacillate between extremes of hope, fear, and psychic pain, their troubled relationship is pushed to the edge.

Dick, a blunt and bawdy Philly sports fan, finds himself in an assisted living facility following a stroke. Determined to regain his independence, he does daily laps around the grounds with his quad cane. But when recovery never comes, and days swell into years, Dick finds purpose instead by studying his fellow residents, chronicling their odd obsessions and their nasty arguments, their breakdowns, their drunken debaucheries—and yes, even their sexual escapades.

Trina Ann Pion’s Manic Wars tells the story of Christina Wars, a single mother in the midst of a manic bipolar episode. While in and out of the mental hospital, Christina finds herself getting sicker and losing touch with reality until psychosis takes over her whole life and she is arrested for the most bizarre crime.