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1) Toxin
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Language
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.
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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....
6) 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....
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English
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On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman-who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister-is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brothers refusal to recognize her,...
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its more costly subscribers.
10) Moloka'i
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English
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Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.
11) Terminal
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Language
English
Description
Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
12) Godplayer
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Working with her husband, a respected cardiac surgeon, at Boston Memorial is a dream come true to Dr. Cassandra Kingsley. Until a series of mysterious deaths rocks the pre-eminent hospital--and Cassandra's most frightening suspicions are realized.
13) Brain
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
A young girl arrives at Hobson University Medical Center to obtain her medical records and is never seen again... Inexplicably, another woman dies a horrible and agonzing death during brain surgery while under local anesthesia... Hidden in a drawer deep in the hospital morgue lies a female cadaver whose organs are intact, but whose brain is missing... When Assistant Chief of Neuroradiology Martin Philips and Denise Sanger, the beautiful young resident...
14) Oath of office
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English
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When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath before he turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and fought hard for his license to be restored. Lou is in shock over the news,...
15) The fifth vial
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English
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From Boston, a disgraced medical student travels to South America to deliver a research paper that could save her career and becomes a victim of an unspeakable crime. Thousands of miles away, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth. In Chicago, a disillusioned private...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jessie Copeland is a respected neurosurgeon who spends her days waging life-and-death battles in the OR and her spare time holed up in a lab, spearheading the development of a robot that could revolutionize brain surgery. It could be months before the robot is ready for use on human beings--or so Jessie thinks, until her ambitious department head jumps the gun and uses the robot in a high-profile case that nets worldwide attention.
18) Coma: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1977]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When more than a dozen minor-surgery patients die inexplicably on the operating table, a medical student determines to find the reason.
20) Life Support
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Dr. Toby Harper, attempting to track a patient who disappeared out of the Springer Hospital emergency room, finds herself on the trail of a deadly epidemic.