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1) Toxin
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English
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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.
2) Fever
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it.
4) Cell
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car...or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected that...
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English
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A medical thriller on a health insurance scam to murder patients who cost too much money. It features Dr. Harry Corbett, a Vietnam War vet, whose wife has died mysteriously. When he discovers that, unknown to him, she was investigating such a racket, he starts a probe of his own and immediately his life is in danger. By the author of Natural Causes.
Author
Series
Darwin series volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Language
English
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Molecular biologist Kay Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an attempt to trace the ancient source of a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring and threatening the future of the human race.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.
10) Harmful intent
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
"The explosive story of a doctor accused of malpractice--a fugitive on the run who pieces together the heart of a shocking medical conspiracy.'--cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
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English
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Brian Holbrook, having overcome the addiction to prescription painkillers that robbed him of his license to practice medicine, is offered an opportunity to join in the testing of a new medicine which supposedly has the power to reverse heart disease, but his comeback hits a snag when he begins to realize something is very wrong with the drug.
14) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond. Three women have been strangled and brutalized in their own bedrooms. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, fears that more victims will follow unless she can come up with new scientific evidence to help the police.
15) Bloodstream
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Dr. Claire Elliot, having moved from the city with her son to set up practice in Tranquility, Maine, is looking forward to a peaceful life, but when the town's teenagers start committing violent acts, Claire knows she has to find the cause before it ruins Tranquility and her family.
16) Mortal fear
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Shock
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English
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Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, graduate science students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for egg donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can do a good deed--help infertile couples--and earn money. Although rumors of a fellow student donor's unexplained disappearance surface, the duo is not deterred....
18) Natural causes
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Sarah Baldwin, an intern in a hospital inBoston, likes to treat her patients with vitaminsupplements. When one patient dies and others fall sick,the question arises is it the vitamins or is someone tryingto frame her?
19) A case of need
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Language
English
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When a young woman dies mysteriously on an operating table and her physician is accused of murder, a colleague's investigation takes him from a deadly sex and drug underworld to the heights of Boston society as he searches for the truth.
20) Implant
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A doctor kills congressmen who are watering down medical safety laws, a way of revenging himself for his daughter's death from malpractice. He lures them with prospects of rejuvenating plastic surgery, then implants delayed poison in their bodies. The deaths attract the suspicion of his woman assistant.