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1) Parasite
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
SymboGen has genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs. Everything is fine... until the tapeworms begin to change... and want out of human bodies they occupy....
2) Charlatans
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Patient's Playbook will change the way you manage your health and the health of your family, from finding the right doctor to coordinating the best medical care. An expertly informed guide to the steps that everyone should take--even before illness strikes. The Patient's Playbook is a compelling narrative of personal stories that imparts lessons and illuminates strategies for better, and even life-saving, medical decision-making. With clarity...
6) Sublime
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
George Grieves has just turned 40 and is being checked into Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine colonoscopy. The procedure goes wrong when charts are mixed up and the doctors make mistakes. Now, George is struggling against the nursing staff, cold hospital lawyers, an oddly distant family. To make matter worse, a formlessly sinister forces prowls the halls of the East Wing, which is currently under construction.
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Grey's Anatomy meets Scrubs in this brilliant debut novel about a young doctor's struggle to survive residency, love, and life. Having spent the last twenty-something years with her nose in a textbook, brilliant and driven Norah Kapadia has just landed the medical residency of her dreams. But after a disastrous first day, she's ready to quit. Disgruntled patients, sleep deprivation, and her duty to be the "perfect Indian daughter" have her questioning...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
**A new unabridged recording**
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Atul...
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Medical mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Americans are harmed by diagnostic mistakes, drug disasters, and medical treatments. A decade ago, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 people died in hospitals each year from preventable medical errors--and new research suggests the toll is much higher. Patient advocates Joe and Teresa Graedon came face-to-face with the tragic consequences of doctors' screwups when Joe's...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system--and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. At least, this is what the health care power players want you to think....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An informed and arresting debut novel about a young surgeon in crisis, by a writer whose "exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny." (Rachel Cusk) Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to determine if she can continue to practice medicine. Nancy's fears about both her patient's chances for survival and whether she will be "undoctored" are made...
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped....
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