Robin Cook
1) Host
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The explosive new thriller from "New York Times-"bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with "Coma" what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical "incubators" against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine...
2) Cell
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"George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. George's initial collision...
3) Intervention
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Its been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapletons college graduation and almost as long since hed been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jacks career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarriedto longtime colleague and...
4) Genesis
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When the body of 28-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, it initially appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are...
5) Charlatans
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"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....
6) Nano
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After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, decided to take some time off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology and the chance to clear her head in the cool air of Colorado, Pia takes a job at Nano, LLC, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the Rockies. Nano is...
7) Pandemic
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"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...
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"In this exhilarating medical mystery-thriller by Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist is murdered"--
Colleagues-turned-spouses Doctor Laurie Montgomery and Doctor Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with crazy work schedules and family pressures. The last thing they need is a murder. When Laurie's longtime friend, by all accounts healthy Dr. Sue Passero dies...
9) Cure
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With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career. The investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional challenge-and has Laurie's colleagues wondering if she still has what it takes after so much time away. Markham's autopsy results are inconclusive, and though it appears he's been poisoned, toxicology...
10) Abduction
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A mysterious transmission from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean sends a team of oceanographers and divers on a perilous quest in search of a discovery that could transform modern science and the future of humankind.
11) Coma: a novel
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Little, Brown
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[1977]
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
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When more than a dozen minor-surgery patients die inexplicably on the operating table, a medical student determines to find the reason.
12) Viral
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2021.
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Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer vacation when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their leisurely return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER when her condition dramatically deteriorates. At the hospital, she is diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease caught during one of their evening cookouts. Worse still, Brian and Emma's...
13) Toxin
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.
14) Blindsight
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Cocaine overdoses and mob killings are at the center of this fast paced novel wherein a female N.Y.C. medical examiner has difficulty convincing the police of the obvious connections.
15) Chromosome 6
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A medical thriller about an African farm where genetically engineered subhumans are bred to provide organs for transplants. The racket is uncovered by two doctors investigating a bizarre murder in New York City
16) Acceptable risk
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Putnam
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[1994]
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A medical thriller featuring Dr. Edward Armstrong, a researcher developing an anti-depressant drug. Under pressure from his backers to complete the research, he experiments on himself with disastrous effects. But with millions of dollars at stake, the backers hush up the results and when Armstrong's sweetheart, Kimberly Stewart, decides to blow the whistle, she puts both their lives in jeopardy. By the author of Fatal Cure.
17) Terminal
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Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
18) Mortal fear
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Putnam
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1988.
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When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse.
19) Fatal cure
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1994
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Doctors Angela and David Wilson think they've found personal and professional bliss when they arrive at rural Bartlet, Vermont, a sleepy little village with a state-of-the-art medical facility-a necessity for their daughter, Nikki, who has cystic fibrosis. But Angela's curiosity is aroused when she notices puzzling details inthe deaths of several terminal patients, many of them children with cystic fibrosis. The couple is in a state of near panic...
20) Vector
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Forensic pathologists Dr. Jack Stapleton and Dr. Laurie Montgomery, investigating two seemingly disparate cases, come to realize that Jack's anthrax victim, and Laurie's tortured skinhead are only a small part of a dangerous plot to unleash a devastating bioweapon on the United States.