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Sheldon's latest begins with the trial of a San Francisco doctor, Paige Taylor, who in 1995 is accused of killing a patient to gain access to a large inheritance. The narrative then backs up to 1990 and chronicles the journeys of Taylor, Honey Taft, and Kat Hunter, the only three females in a group of new residents at Embarcadero County Hospital. The women, who quickly become roommates and friends, face long hours, a frenetic work pace, and unwanted...
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Young medical student John Wesley Beaven is torn between the detached, cold pragmatism of Dr. Forster and the humanistic attitudes of kindly Dr. Cunningham. Matters are brought to a head when Beaven must choose between his career and impending marriage to fellow student Audrey Hilton.
5) Godplayer
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Dr. Cassandra Kingsley is investigating sudden surgical deaths at Boston Memorial Hospital and her husband, a top surgeon, seems headed for a breakdown. Cassi is admitted to the hospital for an eye operation and becomes the "Godplayer's" next target.
6) Foreign body
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
7) Cell
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"The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. 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...
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"Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail--she hasn't had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother's obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she's met someone. That is, until she blurts out...
9) Do no harm
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When an unknown attacker is injured in the process of his capture, ER chief David Spier is ostracized for treating the man, a situation that is further complicated when the assailant escapes, prompting Spier to delve into his own past.
11) Viral
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Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease seemingly...
12) Random winds
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The Farrells are a proud American family and Random Winds is the forceful saga of their ambitious and love-torn lives from the days of the Depression to the present. Enoch, a poor country doctor, is succeeded by his son Martin, a young med student whose ambition is to rise above the role of rural physician. WHen Martin meets Mary Fern, love and ambition are united. Mary's wealthy family has the means to launch Martin's career as a surgeon. But Martin's...
13) Doing harm
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"Steve Mitchell, happily married with a wife and two kids, is in line for a coveted position at Boston's University Hospital when his world goes awry. His over-reaching ambition causes him to botch a major surgery, and another of his patients mysteriously dies. Steve's nightmare goes from bad to worse when he learns that the mysterious death was no accident but the act of a sociopath. A sociopath he knows and who has information that could destroy...
15) Extreme measures
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900L
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Eric Najarian, a dedicated young physician struggles to unlock a deadly conspiracy at White Memorial Hospital.
16) Arrowsmith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 29
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1160L
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"Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, which won him the Pulitzer Prize …which Lewis declined. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools...
17) The ward
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Lisa is a plastic surgery addict with severe self-esteem issues. The only hospital that will let her go under the knife is New Hope, a grimy-walled facility dubbed “No Hope” by its patients. Farrell is a celebrity photographer. His last memory is a fight with his fashion-model girlfriend and now he's woken up in No Hope, alone. Needle marks criss-cross his arms, a sinister nurse keeps tampering with his drip, and he's woken up blind. Panicked...
18) Brain
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900L
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The disappearance of a patient's brain and a rash of unexplained bizarre behavior prompts two doctors to investigate the medical research facility that employs both of them. Two doctors suspect something is very wrong at the enormous medical center where they work. And soon they will put their careers and their lives in deadly jeopardy, as they penetrate the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young...
19) Bunny call
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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800L
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When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live."--Back...
20) Harvest
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620L
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Second year surgical resident Abby DiMatteo stumbles onto a horrifying conspiracy when a wealthy patient who has just had a heart transplant becomes ill and Abby, in trying to treat the woman, discovers the donor records have been falsified.
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