Medical Fiction:
Description: Doctor Peter Branstead’s neurology department at St. Mark’s Hospital in New York’s picturesque Greenwich Village is flooded with a series of critically ill vagrants exhibiting identical symptoms. Confused and agitated upon admission, they rapidly progress into convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death. The deaths are too methodical to be a coincidence, but how—and why—are they being killed?
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Brain Warp: A Medical Thriller Gil Snider
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Description: Soon after Dr. Daniel Fazen becomes an executive at his cherished community hospital, it is acquired by a predatory health care conglomerate. It quickly becomes clear that those in power at this ruthless corporation have little concern for the human beings under their care. The stand Dan takes to save his patients creates an extraordinary showdown between one man with a conscience and the forces of big business greed. This dramatic insider’s look at the dark side of our health care system is a gripping and cautionary tale for America, where being in the wrong hospital at the wrong time can cost you your health – or your life.Title Authors
Standard of Care: A Novel David Kerns
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Description: Although this book is written as fiction, it closely tracks the real-life experience of a physician who received the education of his life when he became the patient of his colleagues. Be warned: this novel did receive one very negative review on Amazon for the copy-editing (or lack thereof)
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Second Opinion: A Medical Novel Based on a True Case C Robert Umana
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Description: A humorous yet realistic look at life in hospitals. Written for both the lay public and medical professionals, The Forest and the Trees is a factual representation of medical prodedures and disease processes told in the setting of an intern’s first six months of training. Readers will gain a basic understanding of medicine while medical professionals will appreciate the insight into current medical thought processes.
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The Forest and the Trees : A Medical Novel Benjamin W. Strong, MD
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Description: Claire Boehning faces a bleak future when her privileged life ends abruptly. Addison, her biochemist husband, created a lucrative drug that secured the family’s fortunes, but when tests on a new drug go awry and Addison’s backing disappears, he loses everything. Claire searches for a position as a doctor, a profession she left after Jory’s birth. But with her lack of experience and board certification, she finds few opportunities until she lands a job at a nonprofit clinic that serves poor, uninsured migrant workers. There Claire meets Miguela Ruiz, a Nicaraguan native with a mysterious background, and as the Boehnings struggle to reclaim some piece of their past life, Ruiz affects them in unexpected ways. The novel takes a hard look at a faulty health-care system to illustrate the power of money and class in this timely and multifaceted novel.
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Healer: A Novel Carol Cassella
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Description: Dr. Marie Heaton, an assured anesthesiologist at the top of her game, is forced to face the personal and professional fallout from an operating room disaster. Marie finds herself on the losing end of dollars-and-cents medicine in a malpractice suit, questioning herself, her skills, her colleagues, and her life choices.
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Oxygen: A Novel Carol Cassella
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Description: There’s a brand new health care system at Texas University Regional Preventive Health Center–EquaCare, an ideal marriage of medicine and economics. However, in internist Maggie Altman’s opinion, it doesn’t do a very good job of making sick people well. And Maggie becomes even more critical of EquaCare when the wrong patients die–people who don’t have life-threatening illnesses.
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Sutton’s Law Jane M. Orient, M.D. and Linda J. Wright
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