So many genres, so little time
Dr. Ashely Alker is a self-described death escapologist—or, in more familiar terms, an emergency medicine doctor. She has seen it all, from flesh-eating bacteria to the work of a serial killer to the more mundane but no less deadly, and her work outwitting the end has uniquely prepared her to write this book.Dr. Alker manages… Continue reading 99 Ways to Die: and How to Avoid Them by Dr. Ashely Alker
Violet Winters is starting her first week of nights and she is petrified. She’s a straight-A student, but practising medicine on real people is another matter entirely. Seems like being a straight-talker can get you in hot water when it comes to patient care… With no one special to spend Christmas with, she signs herself… Continue reading The Night Shift by Nancy Peach
Sarah Livingston is a recent graduate of the Medical School at the University of Nebraska.Her older sister, Rachel, who's been put on bedrest as a result of a difficult pregnancy, has asked Sarah to run her medical practice for her. Sarah decides to take the chance, even though it will put her relationship with Doctor… Continue reading Her Denali Doctor (The Medicine Women of Alaska #2) by Denise Gwen
A picture is worth a thousand words…What about a viral video? When Dr. Benedict saves an infant on the Washington Metro, the treatment he performs with nurse Penny becomes the talk of the town—and social media! Not least because the world thinks they’re a couple… While a real relationship is a no-go zone for divorced… Continue reading A Nurse To Claim His Heart (Neonatal Nurses #1) by Juliette Hyland
It should have been a routine investigation. Instead, DEA K-9 agent Adam “Deck” Decker watches in horror as one Denver hospital seems to be Ground Zero for overdoses of a new drug. Now Deck can only hope a certain icy, green-eyed ER doctor will help him and his canine partner track down the deadly source.Dr.… Continue reading Tough Justice (K-9 Special Ops #1) by Tee O’Fallon
A mysterious illness is ravaging the nation. Those suffering from the dreaded sickness are in so much pain that, in many cases, they have peeled the flesh from their bones in a desperate attempt to relieve their symptoms. Set in and around Manchester, the novel follows Jack Bright, a scientist working to cure the sickness.… Continue reading Poison in the Pills by August Raine
Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable: a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over seventy is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed ‘The Waiting Rooms.’ Hospitals where no one ever gets… Continue reading The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith
But here we are, day in, day out with our patients, their families; we see it all. Nurses are like hospital furniture. Everyone else constantly moves, the Ists get promoted, patients go home or die but we stay, steadfast, waiting to be sat on, leant on, perhaps kicked about a bit. Alice is a compassionate… Continue reading If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar
"Nobody wants to make any moral judgments. We pay for everything with no one looking at the harm we are doing. No one is willing to admit that we can't afford to pay for everybody's self-destructive behavior. Somebody must prioritize and someone must say no. Our country is already technically bankrupt." Dr. Katherine (Kate) Taylor… Continue reading The First to Say No by Charles C. Anderson
This book is not for persons with weak stomachs. It is very graphic and tells a unique story about a man, Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna, who finds his grandparents' murdered bodies in their home and vows revenge on their deaths. Ironically, the killers were in the mafia and he becomes a hitman for the family that… Continue reading Beat the Reaper (Pietro Brnwa #1) by Josh Bazell