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1) The Oath
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When HMO executive Tim Markham is hit by a car during a morning jog through his exclusive San Francisco neighborhood, he has the bad luck to be transported to one of his own hospitals . . . and winds up dead in his ICU bed. His death appears to be a case of malice, not of malpractice - especially after Markham's entire family is gunned down in their home.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run car accident. But the autopsy soon tells a different story--an overdose of potassium killed him, and the attending physician, Eric Kensing, becomes the prime suspect in a high-profile homicide.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2002
Language
English
Description
When the head of a San Francisco HMO dies in his own hospital, nobody doubts that a hit-and-run car accident was the cause, until the autopsy shows an overdose of potassium, and defense attorney Dismas Hardy and the police get involved and discover a trail of homicide in the hospital.
4) The oath
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts that it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run accident. But the autopsy soon tells a different story - an overdose of potassium killed him, and the attending physician, Eric Kensing, becomes the prime suspect in a high-profile homicide.
5) Pandemic
Author
Series
Publisher
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Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: first, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences...
6) Transhuman
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing...
7) As you were
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. Noone knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring bed,...
Author
Publisher
Audioworks is an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart,...