Titoli in Medica

Röntgenhoitaja Laura Aromaan rauhallinen iltavuoro muuttuu painajaiseksi, kun hänen kimppuunsa hyökätään Vaahteran sairaalan röntgenarkistossa. Röntgenosaston henkilökunta kärsii omituisista aistiharhoista ja osaston koneet ja laitteet tuntuvat jatkuvasti reistailevan. Tapahtumissa ei vaikuta olevan päätä eikä häntää. Vartija Jari Viirilän päänvaivana ovat sairaalan outojen tapahtumien lisäksi huhut potilastietosuojan pettämisestä.

Hudiksvall, 1979. En familj på fyra personer hittas döda vid middagsbordet tillsammans med en oidentifierad gäst. När de märkliga dödsfallen skall utredas morgonen därpå svartnar det plötsligt för ögonen på den unge obducenten. Då han vaknar är ett av liken spårlöst försvunnet. Nitton år senare får rättsmedicinaren David Lagerquist ett tips om händelsen och bestämmer sig för att utforska saken närmare.

När rättsmedicinaren och köldforskaren David Lagerquists far hittas död i sin bil misstänker David att fadern har blivit mördad. Bevisen är visserligen undermåliga men han får oväntad hjälp av den mentalt sjuke Isak som han träffar på psykiatriska kliniken i Kalmar. Isaks kusliga berättelser leder David allt närmare ett svar och ute på det karga Fårö väntar den slutliga uppgörelsen med mördaren. Skendöd är Kalmarläkaren Per Källéns första thriller i serien om rättsmedicinaren David Lagerqvist. En stark debut som rosats av både kritiker och läsare.

Ett livsfarligt virus sprider sig som en löpeld genom Stockholm och lämnar inget annat än förödelse efter sig. Telefonlinjerna är överbelastade och polisen Erik får inte tag i sin fru som befinner sig på annan ort med deras dotter. Han måste se till att de hamnar i säkerhet. Att de klarar sig från den ondska som viruset bär med sig. Den framgångsrika MMA-fightern Pontus räds inte några kamper. Runt hörnet väntar en ljus framtid men när Stockholm drunknar i kaos, tar livet en helt ny vändning. Finns det några vinnare i raseriets spår?

Tal como los alquimistas medievales se obsesionaron con la piedra filosofal, un sacamuelas sevillano, que llega hasta el virreinato peruano huyendo de la Inquisición, se afana en la búsqueda del gusano de los dientes que taladra las muelas y anida en las encías, precipitando la corrupción del cuerpo y flagelando a los cristianos con una espina del dolor de la Pasión, porque el imperio español de los siglos XVI y XVII era también el imperio del dolor.

En El anillo verde, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa se aleja de las coordenadas políticas a las que tiene acostumbrados a sus lectores para abordar una fábula con tintes ecologistas, sin renunciar a su calidad y a su componente aventurero y emocionante. Más cercana al género juvenil y fantástico, El anillo verde nos propone una gesta en pos de acabar con una plaga venida de tiempos pretéritos que amenaza con acabar con toda la humanidad.

¿Están usando sus vacunas para hacer una limpieza étnica? Liz, joven bioquímica, descubre que su empresa, Shonjon & Frepiz en Bangalore (India) está esterilizando a miles de mujeres con sus vacunas. Paul, su mejor amigo, es asesinado en la planta farmacéutica y Liz tiene que escapar de allí para salvar su vida. Desde la India, pasando por Estambul y Londres, Matt y Liz, ayudados por los SAS británicos consiguen llegar a Marbella, en el Sur de España, donde van a buscar pruebas para poder acusar a la farmacéutica. Investigando al vicepresidente de Shonjon & Frepiz, descubren el M8.

Un joven doctor acaba de abrir una pequeña consulta en una ciudad rural del sur de Inglaterra. Ilusionado, espera la llegada de su primer paciente. Van pasando los días, pero no llega ninguno. Hasta que, una noche, su ayudante, abandonando momentáneamente su afición por los caramelos de menta, le comunica que hay una dama esperando a poder hablar con él en su consulta.

You must really love this place if you want to return so badly. Or perhaps you just want to spend some more special time with Doctor Sababa, our internal medical consultant at Harbour City Regional Hospital. He would have amused you with his wit and wisdom and the spontaneous combustion and thrust they generate, often mixed in unequal proportions, as he dances with the devil in the pale moonlight. Before there was artificial intelligence, he was the real thing, working in the mysterious old ways of a masterless samurai.

Rose is delightful, flamboyant, and a widow. Having just lost her husband, Rose's daughter steps in to find Rose increasingly disoriented and forgetful. Even as a nurse, Maureen does not recognize the early signs of her mother's dementia - a diagnosis that changes her mother's life and those close to her. The contrast between the reality of Rose's condition and the "Casablanca Style" in which she lived is stark yet beautiful. This book parallels Still Alice's medical description of the illness but picks up where Still Alice leaves off.

In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come rushing back for an anxious mother-to-be as she struggles to balance her child’s needs with her own healing. Rushed into an emergency cesarean section, a woman finds herself in the same hospital where her suicidal mother died. She’s buried the trauma of her mother’s last hours--and also the dread that she might be just as vulnerable to breaking. As the new mother relives one crisis in the midst of another, prize-winning author Julie Orringer turns the joyous event of birth into a harrowing, poignant short story.

A total of 0.63 seconds. That’s the amount of time Angela Brennan has to process the oncoming truck that destroys half of her family and irrevocably alters her life. Not long after the accident, death intervenes once more and snatches her remaining family member. Facing life alone, Angela returns to work as a cardiac surgeon, saving other people’s lives but questioning why hers was spared.

Après avoir écrit sur le système de santé, la mort et sur la médecine elle-même, le docteur Alain Vadeboncœur a eu envie de relaxer un peu et de partager les moments étranges et cocasses qui ponctuent sa vie à l'urgence. Avec la sensibilité qu'on lui connaît, il raconte les petits travers des gens du métier (et les siens !), les rencontres loufoques, les contrastes étonnants entre certains drames et leurs répercussions insolites... et même comment son préfacier, le comédien et réalisateur Simon Olivier Fecteau, a un jour tenté de le tuer.

When a beautiful, red haired nurse’s body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning after a date with Detective Constable Ryan Downey, all eyes turn to him. With a very specific modus operandi, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan and her team know exactly who the offender is; the trouble is he’s currently serving a life stretch in HMP Long Lartin. It soon becomes evident to DS Morgan and her team that there may be a copycat killer on the loose.

Ernie Spiegelglass gets high, gets involved, and is about to complete his residency...he hopes. Brash, brilliant, and often profane, Ernie (alias Doc Sparrowgrass) enters the world of a San Francisco clinic and turns the entire place upside down with his riotous romances and his own unique style - which includes treating patients like people. The medical establishment is turned off to his idea of medicine - from the heart, not by the book - but Ernie can’t turn his back on anyone who comes to him for help, even if it means jeopardizing his career.

After an exchange student with bubonic plague turns up in a Reno hospital, a contractor with identical symptoms dies in Los Angeles. The government‘s official stance is that the cases are isolated and the outbreak is under control. But George Mack, a 30-year public health veteran, quickly realizes this is no ordinary plague. The death toll is too high, and the spread pattern make no sense. As Reno’s hospitals fill with victims, Mack begins to believe that there is more to the epidemic than the CDC is letting on - and that he must take drastic steps if he hopes to save his city.

It’s a long way from a basement apartment in a Montréal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that’s the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing listeners with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where he’ll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day.

After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria’s secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel for a barber’s humble clippers. Though he aches to regain his once-prominent surgical career, cutting hair in Hamilton, Ontario, seems a safe way to make a living, until a fellow Syrian is slashed to death in the barbershop.

The alumni of an international boarding school have gathered at a campground in rural New Jersey when a scream breaks the silence of the woods. Classmates are shocked to find journalist Angie Osborne suddenly dead. The medical examiner’s report isn’t what anyone expects. Oddly, the death scene reminds anthropologist Duncan McCloud of a thovile, a Sri Lankan ritual he’s spent years studying.

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.