The Heart Always Knows
Dr. Hamilton practices medicine in the small town of Sienna, Florida, where he dedicates himself to caring for the residents of his hometown. It's a fictionalized yet accurate depiction of a solo practitioner's life in rural America, highlighting both the positives and the negatives of such a position.The novel is based on real clinicians who practiced in small towns. For those who wonder about the life of a physician, or just wish healthcare could be different in their town, this book provides an insightful read.
The Heart Always Knows
Dr. Hamilton practices medicine in the small town of Sienna, Florida, where he dedicates himself to caring for the residents of his hometown. It's a fictionalized yet accurate depiction of a solo practitioner's life in rural America, highlighting both the positives and the negatives of such a position.The novel is based on real clinicians who practiced in small towns. For those who wonder about the life of a physician, or just wish healthcare could be different in their town, this book provides an insightful read.
The Painted Veil
"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode." -Kitty, The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham is a romance set in England and Hong Kong. The title refers to the first line of a sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life." The author delves deep into the psyche of a mismatched married couple, Kitty and Walter, dealing with affairs and adultery. After Kitty's affair is discovered, Walter gives her the ultimatum of accompanying him to cholera-stricken mainland China or enduring a publicly humiliating divorce. This is just a glimpse of a page-turning novel filled with human conflict that any reader will want to add to their personal library.
The Painted Veil
"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode." -Kitty, The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham is a romance set in England and Hong Kong. The title refers to the first line of a sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life." The author delves deep into the psyche of a mismatched married couple, Kitty and Walter, dealing with affairs and adultery. After Kitty's affair is discovered, Walter gives her the ultimatum of accompanying him to cholera-stricken mainland China or enduring a publicly humiliating divorce. This is just a glimpse of a page-turning novel filled with human conflict that any reader will want to add to their personal library.
Without Borders
"Without Borders" considers the relationship between illness and context. This important book reveals the impacts historical and political global structures have had on humanity. These include slavery, racial and religious segregation, migration, war, economic inequality and social conflict.Vargas Echegaray is an epidemiologist who, in these pages, candidly shares his experiences of dealing with emergent diseases while also striving to find love.
Living Ghost
When eighteen-year-old college freshman Blanca Rokitansky becomes seriously ill, she and her best friend at Nation's Capital University, aspiring radiologist Russell Brown, are abruptly thrown into a medical mystery enshrouded in controversy. Fighting for acknowledgment of and treatment for Blanca's rare syndrome from a skeptical medical community, Blanca stares death in the face while Russell-a pre-med Presidential Scholar and volunteer orderly at the University Hospital-confronts the possibility of losing his scholarship and credibility before his career in medicine can really begin. The two embark on a long and dangerous journey filled with controversy, confrontation, invasive procedures, mystery and malpractice. For Blanca, finding a diagnosis is just the beginning. About the Author: Samantha Mina graduated at the top of her class at the University of Virginia (UVA), majoring in Political Science, Anthropology and English, and has since worked in law, government, human resources and office management. She has served as the Director of Support for Arnold Air Society Area II and holds lifetime memberships in various academic honor societies. In addition to the prize-winning Spectrum Novel Series, available online and in bookstores nationwide, she has poetry, short stories, research, essays, articles and artwork published in several literary magazines and journals. Her debut novel was honored in the "American Fiction Awards." Her personal story and acting were featured in Discovery Health Channel's "Mystery Diagnosis" Program (S09E07), airing internationally. She lives in Reston, Virginia, a few miles outside the nation's capital, but regularly traverses the country for her book tour.
Bad Medicine
Dr. Push Foster takes a 2-year job at the Lukachukai Health Station with no thought that he will soon be plunged into a medical mystery and crisis: the outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness whose terrible swiftness makes it almost impossible to treat. And most mysteriously all the victims have been Navajo, and young. With contacts at the CDC in atlanta, push calls in all the expert help he can. But the scientific answers to what is eventually identified as the rodent-borne hanta virus are unsatisfying, even irrelevant, to the Navajo, who believe something far more frightening is at work--an imbalance with far-reaching effects. And ultimately push himself comes to see the limits of what doctors can accomplish, and the liberating power of accepting other forces at work in the world. Full of wonderful imagery and scenes both moving and frightening--a hand-trembler trying to save a young life, a skinwalker changing form on a lonely road at twilight--this is a colorful and finally gripping novel of modern plagues and timeless evil.
Kit Wilson, RN
Kit Wilson is a smart, well prepared, and caring new registered nurse. Walk with Kit as she lives the challenging transition from nursing school to professional nursing practice. Meet Kit's family, her best friends from nursing school, and a group of colleagues that are willing to support and help Kit learn about life in the "real" nursing world. Kit's patients are sometimes entertaining, often serious, and usually teach her more than she can offer them. She knew she had a lot to learn, but Kit didn't recognize one lesson until it was almost too late. Until she realized that empathy and caring and compassion depended on an important insight, she found herself questioning everything she thought she knew, even her decision to be a nurse.Kit Wilson, RN: First Year Nurse is a thoughtful and engaging debut novella by an author with decades of experience in nursing. It is a great choice for anyone who wants to be a nurse or is simply curious about the complex skills required to succeed in nursing.
Temporal Maladies and Remedies
A comprehensive guide to Temporal Related Injuries and Disease. Dr. Cosgrove, the Founder of Temporal Medicine, outlines the various health risks associated with time travel and how they may be treated. From Nostalgia Nervosa to Athanification, Cosgrove expounds upon ailments of mind and flesh as well as the pills and tonics used in healing them.
These Waning Walls
As direct providers of care, Frank and Andrea Ramsey just wanted to do their jobs, helping people get sober and sane. Then the corporations moved in, gutting the addictions treatment and mental health industries. As they became more prominent in their fields, the couple found their voices and tried to protect their patients. After Frank switched careers to higher education and the corporate juggernauts came after colleges too, Frank and Andie had enough. Fighting back placed the couple in peril but underestimating the Ramseys was the 'big guys' biggest mistake.
Conditional Voluntary
Patrick Coyne knows that the Drug Enforcement Agency is watching him, even though his psychiatrist calls it paranoia. Oddly enough, Patrick begins to feel safe as a patient at a mental hospital. He even calms down an angry girl named Justine and thinks his love life might come alive at last. Yet there are reasons why Justine is also in the hospital. Will legally prescribed medication save Patrick from the DEA? And why won't the staff let him have a girlfriend?
Curing Emily
At the heart of this light, moving work of medical fiction is a scientific discovery so intriguing it promises to change cancer treatment for good ... Thirty-five-year-old bachelor Dave Tennant is at the peak of his career as a bioscientist. But he faces a lonely future without his mother, Emily, who is terminally ill with cancer. In walks Meghan MacDougal, a brilliant young Scottish microbiologist with whom Dave soon forms a bond. A seeming error in a blood analysis leads to a startling discovery: a bacterium that holds promise as a cure for cancer. Where did it come from? How is it linked to cancer? As Dave and Meghan race to solve the riddle, Emily's condition worsens. The company's strict policy against workplace romances keeps them apart. And corporate-espionage agents lurk in the shadows. Will they solve one of humanity's oldest medical questions before time runs out? And will they find a way to be together? The key lies in curing Emily.
Hip
Andrei Kovalov has created a biolayer coating that provides amazing results in dog hip replacements. This super-B.I.G. implant with the biolayer has been approved for human use, and investors will pay Kovalov more than $25 million for his invention. However, Kovalov has destroyed evidence showing that several dogs treated with the super-B.I.G. developed bone cancer from his biolayer. Patrick Maloney, a lowly surgical fellow, has observed cancer in a super-B.I.G. specimen and is concerned when the evidence of cancer disappears after he reports his findings. Since international leaders in the famed Boston hospital where he works will benefit from the super-B.I.G., Patrick is told to curb his suspicions. With his career on the line, Patrick must choose whether or not to ignore his misgivings-and risk hurting the woman he loves. This cautionary tale describes the conflict between profitable surgical innovation and the weak approval processes for surgical devices. Patrick knows he must uphold the oath to protect patients from harm. With extremely powerful forces aligned against him, will Dr. Maloney be able to honor his oath? Will his promising career be destroyed? Surprising answers follow.
Medical Grail
"I've fallen down and can't get up!"Congratulations.You are now about to enter the Twilight Zone. It is a place of mind and matter, of test and retest, of drugs you cannot name, and of unnecessary, painful procedures. It is your own personal journey through the space and time of modern medicine.Medical Grail is the story of Robert Bascom, a young, idealistic physician who had retreated to a village in Italy to mourn the death of his wife. While drinking wine in his small cottage he receives a call from the administrator of a small hospital in the Arizona desert. Corruption, incompetence and malpractice are rampant in his facility, and he pleads with Bascom to return to the US and help him correct the situation.Bascom agrees, and on his first night in town, while suffering from jet-lag and a few too many drinks, gets an urgent call from a nurse and races to the hospital emergency room. Once there he sees a physician in a white coat disinterestedly reading a newspaper at the nurses station. Two patients are in the ward: one is asleep on a stretcher in the corner of the room, the other, almost as white as the sheet covering him, is being worked on by a nurse and an EMT in a bloody uniform. He goes to the stretcher and while doing his best to save the man, asks the nurse, "Did you ask Dr. Perkins to help with this patient?""Yes," she replies, "but he won't treat Mexicans."Medical Grail, a fictional story based upon true events, is the tale of a doctor who has traveled with patients who have made the trip, some successfully, others less so, through the maze of modern medicine. It will horrify you.
Unseen Traveler
He left from there, I closed the door of the house and went to the balcony. Those people kept talking to each other for a while. A policeman was explaining something to the security guard of the society. The society's president was also talking to the police. Everyone was looking at my room again and again and were talking among themselves. A neighbour boy was also standing there; I thought to let everyone go from there, then I will call him to know about whatever they were talking about. I returned to the lobby with little frustration & sat on the couch. My eyes were closed, and I was worried about Dad & Uncle both. I had no idea how are they. For the first time, Dad was somewhere else alone. I got to remember what Dad was saying to me a few weeks ago. That day, Dad and I were watching the news, this news was about Coronavirus wreaking havoc all over the world. I was not accepting & asked Dad, 'In today's era, is there anything that can stop people's lives and make the whole world stand on its knees.' Dad answered sarcastically. 'Yes, the disaster has started, a demon named Corona has arrived.' Suddenly my mobile rang & I opened my eyes to see who is calling, it was Dad. I grabbed the phone, 'Hello. ...... Hello, Dad?' My voice was stuttering. I said again, 'How are you, dad?'
Skimming Eternity
Suzanne Myers, a doctor of neuroscience, is on a journey to fulfill her lifelong dream of transferring thoughts from one individual to another. Her naturalistic view of humanity and the universe is challenged when she and her team discover there is much more to the human condition than mere biological and neurological processes. As the Thought Transmission team progresses through their study, they encounter evidence of an even greater discovery. In the end, Suzanne discovers the ultimate source of revelation, knowledge, and truth.In Skimming Eternity, the reader will experience the astonishing connection between our natural world and the eternal realm of God.
Medicine
In Medicine: Light In Twilight the narrator describes various shades of medical life and confirms the utility of medicines in everyday life. Various pathies have their utility in modern society though Allopathic medicines enjoy the top position. Vaidya ji earns a lot of money after prescribing Allopathic medicines. Dr. Kamya and Dr. Preetilata make money even during the Corona pandemic. The miseries of the patients of Afghanistan need everyone's pity and sympathy. Girija, like Santiago, does not lose her courage and patience in all the odd situations of life and continues to teach students with full vigour. Like saints, Vaidya ji is admired for his philanthropic zeal. Efforts of Indian Government are admirable as nine medical colleges have been planned in U.P. alone to take care of sick people. The authorities have got to be admired for facing Corona with vigour, zeal, and full enthusiasm. The novel answers the questionHow to live?
Story Of Cadaver
Story Of Cadaver, Book where Dead meet a life, Dead wants to share a story, Picturing world in his(Dead) perspective where he has no one, except you(Reader), who listen his story and life events, that he has been through from first breath to last. When a young student enters into medical profession after clearing national enterance exam with so many drams to serve and help peoples in sufferings. with thoughts he amazed and got curious, when he came to know about Cadaver (dead body), from which he has to learn. Not aware of this fact that Cadaver dissection is the corner stone of medical life. going to make student life too, when the untold story that holds behind that cadaver, Unraveled by him. book also talks about how things that differs in cadaver's perspective, when world has been seen always in eyes of living people! Its fictious but close to reality, where characters come alive as you revive each of them, when you read each line of fictious world.
Illegally Innocent
Grace Hampton is comfortably settled into her job as a bioenergetic practitioner when the government outlaws her profession and the products she uses to improve her clients' health. Committed to helping people conquer illness, Grace is forced to join up with a former flame, Jake Pennington, in order to smuggle herbal supplements and other non-traditional health remedies into the United States. As time passes, Grace must learn to discern between those who are fully devoted to protecting her life and her business and those who are not. In the midst of her family attempting to persuade her to change careers, her office's landlord dismissing her from the premises, and deciding to take on more serious health cases than she ever has before, Grace is not always as careful as she should be...
An Irish Country Village
Beautifully evocative of a gentler, simpler time, Patrick Taylor's An Irish Country Village magically captures the charm, wit, and ribald humor of a vanished Irish countryside and its people. Welcome Back to the Village of Ballybucklebo. Come and say hello again to Dr. O'Reilly's odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. "Kinky" Kinkaid, and O'Reilly's pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat. And of course, to young Dr. Barry Laverty. After Barry's first month as an assistant to crusty Dr. O'Reilly, he has been offered a permanent spot. But Laverty's excitement is dashed when one of his patients unexpectedly dies. The damage to his reputation is enormous, and he and O'Reilly must work to resolve the question of Barry's responsibility for the death. They also have to figure out how to save the four-hundred-year-old village pub. Plans are afoot to not renew the hundred-year lease and instead transform the old pub into a sparkling new tourist trap.To make matters even worse, Patricia Spence, the love of Barry's life, announces she is trying to win a scholarship to distant Cambridge University, all the way in England. . . .
Savannah's Bethesda
A Savannah native approaching retirement from a medical career returns home to write his sabbatical book. An encounter with Mae, a mysterious Gullah woman, takes him into magical adventures covering almost 3 centuries based in the landmarks of his hometown. The sights, sounds, history, and smells of Savannah are irresistible, and qualify the town as a full-fledged character in this story. He ventures to partake of some of Mae's root doctor tea and is propelled into dreamscapes that blur time and reality. During one of these walkabouts, he meets the biracial healer Ann on the grounds of the Bethesda orphanage on the Savannah coast in 1757. When he is faced with saving the Habersham family from a raging fever, Ann leads him to an understanding of her particular blend of healing. She is a product of her mother's Gullah hoodoo system brought from West Africa and her Indigenous American father's skills using the Great Spirit's natural gifts.The urgency to save the Habersham family in the big house is then compounded by the realization that there is a large infirmary full of orphaned children with the fever. Ann holds the key to treating them, but to accept her truths he must first fully embrace the West African healing tradition, including the fire ritual. His way is further narrowed by the need to appease the spirit of each living thing as explained to Ann by her father. This leads to an internal journey guided by the doctor's experiences of the power of empathy with his patients and his own father. He wanders among stories from practice and childhood experiences, and finally Ann provides the needed direction. His traditional training as a family doctor might qualify him as a hoodoo doctor and his Catholic upbringing provides the needed convergence for these two colleagues to connect on a spiritual level. Their collaboration starts slowly and builds to a surprising climax with the intertwining of all 3 healing traditions.
Doktor Pascal (Le docteur Pascal
Doktor Pascal ist ein Roman des Schriftstellers ?mile Zola. Er bildet den zwanzigsten und letzten Band des Rougon-Macquart-Zyklus. Zentrale Themen sind Zolas genetische Vererbungstheorie sowie das Spannungsverh瓣ltnis zwischen Religion und Wissenschaft. Die Titelfigur Dr. Pascal lebt und praktiziert seit 30 Jahren in der fiktiven Stadt Plassans. Sein Leben lang hat er Material 羹ber die Mitglieder seiner Familie gesammelt, um beispielhaft die Gesetze der genetischen Vererbung zu untersuchen, einschlie?lich vererbter Eigenschaften und Krankheiten. Dr. Pascal hat ein Serum entwickelt, das nervliche Erkrankungen und Tuberkulose heilen kann. ?mile ?douard Charles Antoine Zola (1840-1902) war ein franz繹sischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Zola gilt als einer der gro?en franz繹sischen Romanciers des 19. Jahrhunderts und als Leitfigur und Begr羹nder der gesamteurop瓣ischen literarischen Str繹mung des Naturalismus. Zugleich war er ein sehr aktiver Journalist, der sich auf einer gem瓣?igt linken Position am politischen Leben beteiligte.
Blood for Sail
Recently retired from full-time ministry and hoping to see the world while serving God, Pastor James Atterley leaves his home in South Carolina with his wife, Candace, and joins the mysterious Majestic Waves Cruises as a chaplain. Instead of the adventurous retirement they had planned, Atterley discovers that all is not right on their ship, the Grand Rapina. As the ship fills with refugees looking for a new start in the United States, it becomes clear that safety is the last thing to be found onboard. While hunger and pirates plague the ship, it is the machinations of the Grand Rapina's crew that prove there is true evil sailing the seas. Pastor Atterley must navigate these troubled spiritual waters, weighing the faith and ethics of a lifetime against the needs of each new moment of terror. This is the emotionally intense story of the moral courage that emerges in the heart of a faithful man who has never been so tested by problems of social justice, and how he navigates through an ocean of uncertainty with only his imperfect commitment to an inscrutable God to guide him. For adult readers of literary fiction. Text includes study questions for book clubs, small groups, and classrooms. Recommended by Kirkus Reviews."A textured, riveting portrait of a good man caught in a horrifying situation. Our verdict: GET IT."
Battle with schizophrenia Suhasinis victory
The whole idea behind writing the book on schizophrenia is, there is ignorance regarding the illness. People think all mental illnesses are alike, whereas every illness requires different treatment. Don't shun people with mental illness. Such people are capable of living normal life after the treatment. We need to show love, compassion and patience. The book will open discussion about mental health. Even if one person sees something positive in the story, it will bring about change in the society. I hope to see a positive change in society. People change their perspective after reading the book.
Arrowsmith
Winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize, Arrowsmith by American author Sinclair Lewis is known to be one of the first novels on the culture of science, using both satire and tragedy to explore medical and scientific themes. In this novel, Lewis writes sharp social criticism, wicked humor, and the vain reality of drugs, public health, and immunology-and those who strive for fame and fortune within this world. Arrowsmith is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a medical student at the University of Winnemac, who falls in love with both a woman and with science. As he meets his mentor, German professor and science researcher Max Gottlieb, he also meets his wife Leora Tozer, a nurse. When Arrowsmith graduates from university, however, he is forced to abandon his love of science in order to support his family. As he jumps from occupation to occupation, getting twisted up in political affairs as well as romantic affairs, Arrowsmith is finally recognized by Gottlieb for a scientific paper he has written and is offered a job at a research institution in New York. But when Arrowsmith discovers a phage that can help save a Caribbean Island from an outbreak of bubonic plague, Arrowsmith finds himself with a decision to make: take the phage and study it in order to further science, or abandon his scientific values to save the island. With tragic romances, philosophic debate, and the morality of human flaws, Lewis' Arrowsmith is a timeless novel that remains relevant to society today.
Breath and Mercy
Life was supposed to get better for Phineas Mann in 1983. After the rigors of medical school, residency, and fellowship training, he lands himself a promising position directing a New Orleans hospital's intensive care unit. His mental and physical limits are soon tested by the soaring demand for his expertise and an exploding AIDS epidemic.Then Hurricane Jezebel floods the city and knocks out power, plumbing, and telephones. Temperatures soar. Supplies run low. As day follows miserable day, fatalities fill a make-shift morgue. Through the sweltering, fetid gloom Phineas employs his training to alleviate patient suffering...until he faces one terrible threat that will put his entire future in jeopardy. Breath and Mercy is the prequel to Mark Anthony Powers' bestselling debut novel, A Swarm in May, and the first book of a trilogy. Through the character of Dr. Phineas Mann, the author explores the ethical dilemmas of providing supportive care for dying patients.
An Irish Country Doctor
The start of the beloved New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series from author Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Doctor Barry Laverty, M.D., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice. At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. The older physician, whose motto is to never let the patients get the upper hand, has his own way of doing things, which definitely takes some getting used to. At first, Barry can't decide if the pugnacious O'Reilly is the biggest charlatan he has ever met, or possibly the best teacher he could ever hope for. Ballybucklebo is long way from Belfast, and Barry soon discovers that he still has a lot to learn about country life. But if he sticks with it, he just might end up finding out more about life--and love--than he ever imagined back in medical school.
Out and About
Freedom From Jail. Freedom From Family.Jensen Keller covets freedom. He's abided by his father's wishes for years, until the one time he rebelled, and it nearly lost him his family. Now he's summoned back to Cathedral Lake only to discover freedom has been granted to the one person who should be denied it-Wade Unger, the man responsible for his sister's death.Bella Perish wants nothing more than to be free from her domineering father. In an unexpected turn of events, she's not only granted that freedom-autonomy is forced on her... at the cost of her budding relationship with Jensen. As she works to repair the relationships that matter most to her, her newfound independence is compromised. Worse, her very life is threatened.An account of repression, revelation, bravery, and contrition, Out and About chronicles the merits and miseries of freedoms denied and gained.
Mad'demic in a Pandemic
The 'mad'demic in a pandemic is a joco-serious fictional book that narrates author's thoughts and fictional conversations. The book begins from the early days of the pandemic and ends the when the "third wave" hit India. The book addresses the fiascos that were carried out in the name of pandemic management and greater good of public health.The entire public health responses during the pandemic like lockdown, test, trace and quarantine, stay home and stay safe, use of expensive and trial drugs, discounting the benefits of early low cost treatment, and excessive fear mongering in the media makes this pandemic as the humankind's greatest saga of collective cognitive dissonance. This book is about an hour read, especially dedicated to the people who are critical thinkers and do not just follow what is being told to them on prime time television.
Locked In
Strap in for the latest novel in Burrows' Who's In Control? thriller series. London. A massive explosion leaves 11 people dead, hundreds critically injured and one man in a deep coma. David cannot speak. He cannot move. He cannot see. But he can hear. The police are desperate for answers. Hospital doctors need to save lives. The media are in a frenzy. And politicians want to make the whole thing go away. Amongst the noise and fierce disputes around him and his future, David discovers the truth about what really happened. It is worse than anyone could have imagined. What he learns could bring justice to the victims. But who was really to blame? If you're willing to have your beliefs and assumptions rocked to the core, then close the door, turn on the bedside light and strap in for this page turning read. Find yourself immersed in another claustrophobic thriller, from the award winning author of Portico and The Illustrator's Daughter. Locked In is the fifth book in Gideon Burrows' Who's In Control? series. For Portico"Portico is a thought-provoking thriller. I'm already casting the film version in my mind." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Pacy, thrilling, suspenseful and complex to keep your attention... this is a must-read for anyone who likes intelligently-written thrillers - political, techno, or otherwise." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "The best of this genre I have read for a long time." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For The Illustrator's Daughter"I finished this book and then went to give my children a big kiss and hug." *★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "A brilliant book. Couldn't put it down." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This book took my breath away. Absolutely couldn't put it down. Beautifully written, it explores some hugely emotional issues with honesty and grace. Can absolutely recommend." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Honest, heartbreaking and unputdownable." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For The Spiral"Creepy and claustrophobic." Andy MacDonald"Recommended to all who love a bit of creeping dread in their lives." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Another superb story from an emerging author." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Publication date: 1st May 2022
My Body's Little Buddy
The Amie and the Safe Keepers Project is a child-friendly public health series teaching kids about common childhood illnesses and harm.In this third installment in the series, Amie's friend is diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Join Amie as she learns about this condition that commonly affects children.
Overwhelmed: A Tale of Cascading Viral Outbreaks
Since the start of the 21st century, the world has been experiencing numerous infectious disease outbreaks, with little time to breath between events. This fictional novel takes place in various countries across the globe that are dealing with large infectious disease outbreaks due to viruses causing yellow fever, Zika, Ebola and COVID-19. David Ferguson, in the World Health Organization's Emergency Preparedness Division, attempts to deal with these outbreaks, but must overcome numerous logistical, political and ethical roadblocks while becoming involved in a romantic relationship with Aceline Durand, who works for Medecins Sans Frontiers.
Overwhelmed: A Tale of Cascading Viral Outbreaks
Since the start of the 21st century, the world has been experiencing numerous infectious disease outbreaks, with little time to breath between events. This fictional novel takes place in various countries across the globe that are dealing with large infectious disease outbreaks due to viruses causing yellow fever, Zika, Ebola and COVID-19. David Ferguson, in the World Health Organization's Emergency Preparedness Division, attempts to deal with these outbreaks, but must overcome numerous logistical, political and ethical roadblocks while becoming involved in a romantic relationship with Aceline Durand, who works for Medecins Sans Frontiers.
Doctor Heartbreak
D.M. Davis' Doctor Heartbreak is a second-chance, doctor-patient, heartbreaking romance of loss and unrealistic promises that threaten to keep Dani forever lonely and break the only organ Dr. Heartgrove doesn't know how to fix. I'm intimately familiar with the brain, but it's the heart that's giving me trouble. I found her in a bar.Red hair and a rocking body teasing me with promises her eyes threaten to keep.She marked me without saying a word.Tattooed her name on my soul.One night was all we had.Come morning she was gone. Eight months later, I find my redheaded temptress on my gurney, holding a little boy like he's her lifeline.Turns out he's her nephew, and the only promises she's capable of keeping are those made to her dead sister. We may have started out as a drunken romp, but I've no intention of letting that be all we are.I want more than one night.I want forever. When Dani wakes up in the ER, the man of her fantasies staring down at her, can she find room for him among her family obligations, or will she run as fast as she can, living for others instead of herself? Intended for mature audiences.
Chicago Story
Saga describing the effects of a medical malpractice suit filed against one of the top cardiovascular surgeons in Chicago and his assistant trainee Resident, The ramifications of that action play out in ways that one would not expect in the everyday drama of the medical world.
Winterbourne
Winterbourne is an evocative tale of murder, revenge, and love. Here is a riveting account of crime, murder, and madness that terrorizes the small-town surgeon and his family in the formerly innocent California community, known as Winterbourne.Set in the early 1960's, this is the story of a family-oriented community, surrounding a winterbourne stream, in Northern California. It is full of average law-abiding citizens who live in picturesque equestrian properties with white, three rail fences. A violent motor vehicle accident and the attempted resuscitation of the victim, a homeless drug addict, by surgeon Doctor Franklin Carson and his Labrador, Winston, begins a fast-paced story of deception and lies. The event calls attention to a problem in the small community.Something is wrong, evil is about, and the society's innocence is at risk. A crime ring is rumored, centered around a violent resident of Winterbourne. The man is a ruddy complexioned man with a distinctive disabling appearance. His father is the corrupt, politically powerful resident of the community. It is the search for a young innocent runaway that reveals a secret scandal which will tear apart the very substance of Winterbourne.
Beyond the Mask
Set amid the beginning turmoil of New York's COVID crisis, Beyond the Mask is a fictional psychological chronicle of six health care workers in a callous city hospital system. Maureen is a jaded veteran nurse about to retire. Michael is a dedicated ER nurse for whom family is everything. Ethan is a young nursing assistant, nursing student, and recovering addict, ready to embark on his next chapter helping people get well. Sandy is a newbie nurse getting her bearings in unforgiving surroundings, wondering if she's really in the right place. Kyle is an x-ray tech who knows his job inside out until its requirements change before his eyes. Fran is an orthopedic nurse who came to her work as a single mother so as to better provide for her young developmentally challenged son. In this ripped-from-the-headlines drama, six colleagues confront the failures of body and state up close. Beyond the Mask puts us not just in the room with health-care workers but in their heads, giving voice to conflicts, doubts, and desires unique to their calling in present-day America.
Dark Inheritance
W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, international bestselling authors of Dissolution, present a gripping, thought-provoking contemporary thriller in the tradition of Michael Chrichton's Jurassic Park. Here a project of cutting-edge genetics might lead to a better world-or a waking nightmare.For thirteen years-since he became one of several scientists chosen to raise apes bred by the pharmaceutical giant SAC-Dr. Jim Dutton, his young daughter Brett, and the bonobo ape Umber have been a family. For Umber is far more than a subject or pet. She types, reads, speaks sign language, favors psychedelic clothes, and even contemplates the nature of God.Then a colleague forces Jim to confront the reality he's tried to ignore: Umber and the other SAC apes are too intelligent to be pure bonobos. They are "augmented" apes, more like early hominids than to anthropoids. And when SAC abruptly demands Umber's immediate return, it becomes vital for Jim to discover why the corporation created this new species.The quest for answers will take Jim and his family to Africa, to a SAC facility that fronts as a preserve dedicated to helping once-captive chimps. But the grounds also hide a covert genetics lab, a missing band of blue-eyed apes, crude buildings decorated with skulls, and, deep in the shadows, human corpses savagely hacked to pieces...Now the struggle to uncover SAC's secrets becomes a fight for survival. Suddenly Umber, Brett, and Jim find themselves hunted by beings who are fiercely territorial, brutally aggressive, and far stronger than any human.And like humans they can be utterly, and murderously, psychotic...
Dark Inheritance
W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, international bestselling authors of Dissolution, present a gripping, thought-provoking contemporary thriller in the tradition of Michael Chrichton's Jurassic Park. Here a project of cutting-edge genetics might lead to a better world-or a waking nightmare.For thirteen years-since he became one of several scientists chosen to raise apes bred by the pharmaceutical giant SAC-Dr. Jim Dutton, his young daughter Brett, and the bonobo ape Umber have been a family. For Umber is far more than a subject or pet. She types, reads, speaks sign language, favors psychedelic clothes, and even contemplates the nature of God.Then a colleague forces Jim to confront the reality he's tried to ignore: Umber and the other SAC apes are too intelligent to be pure bonobos. They are "augmented" apes, more like early hominids than to anthropoids. And when SAC abruptly demands Umber's immediate return, it becomes vital for Jim to discover why the corporation created this new species.The quest for answers will take Jim and his family to Africa, to a SAC facility that fronts as a preserve dedicated to helping once-captive chimps. But the grounds also hide a covert genetics lab, a missing band of blue-eyed apes, crude buildings decorated with skulls, and, deep in the shadows, human corpses savagely hacked to pieces...Now the struggle to uncover SAC's secrets becomes a fight for survival. Suddenly Umber, Brett, and Jim find themselves hunted by beings who are fiercely territorial, brutally aggressive, and far stronger than any human.And like humans they can be utterly, and murderously, psychotic...
Father of the Man
Edward Finlay recalls his life's odyssey beginning in the 1890s on his family ranch in rural Montana. His childhood revolves around three people: his father, a cattle rancher; his mother, who is determined for her son to receive a modern education; and his best friend, a boy from the nearby Crow Indian Reservation, who introduces him to a fading warrior society. When Edward refuses to break off a teenage romance with an older woman from the reservation, his mother arranges to send Edward far away to the newly opened Stanford University. There, the San Francisco earthquake completely changes the direction of his future. After volunteering in a U.S. Army field hospital, he decides to become a surgeon. Soon, he begins his medical career and a life filled with friendship, new love, and extraordinary adventure as he brushes with history across two continents.Edward confronts many adversaries during his journey: dormitory bullies, traitors to the British Empire and its monarchy, and even a child psychopath. The greatest of these villains are the promoters of eugenics, which threaten his intellectually disabled son, and the Germans at Orhdruf (the first concentration camp liberated by the U.S. Army in WW2). As a son, husband, father, pioneering vascular surgeon, and veteran of two world wars, he attempts to understand the inequities of fortune and the inexplicable cruelty he encounters.
Jimmy Goes to the Emergency Department
Let's face it, children hate needles! Shortly after a child is born, he receives his first vaccination. From the age of two months until the age four or five years, the child receives numerous vaccinations before entering kindergarten. Approximately 60 percent of well child health visits involve vaccinations. The vast majority of these are given by injection, which, of course, require a needle to administer. Kids are smart, even at a very young age. It doesn't take them long to associate a doctor with the pain of a needle. It's no wonder they start to fuss and fume when the doctor enters the exam room. Read this story and discover how five-year-old Jimmy Meserve deals with his fear of needles when he has to visit the local emergency department.
Follicle Farm
Welcome to Follicle Farm Bobby is a Mitochondria and he works as a humble Follicle Farmer. He, with millions of colleagues, is part of the amazing organisation dedicated to growing hair for the human male that they live inside of. Recently, Bobby made an important discovery when he learned how to reverse the effects of alopecia and greying hair. Now it's up to management to debate if they should use his technique. Join Bobby as he travels the body, ably assisted by Banjo and Skip, as he meets and deals with other human cells in various systems throughout the body. Bobby quickly learns there is more to management than just servicing the body's needs. Cliques, quirks, politics, unions, and hidden agendas all thrive in Bobby's world. You'll share in his adventure of personal growth as he encourages other Follicle Farmers to utilise best-practises in growing quality hair. Follicle Farm is comic and imaginative insight into organisational structure and behaviour of the trillions of cells that make up the microscopic world of every living person. It reveals how cells within the human body really think and how they, mostly, work well together. This is Bobby's story....
Gone for Doctors
The author has seven published novels. His enduring interest in Canadian Army history is based on having attended the McGill medical school through the Regular Officer Training Program which required three summers of basic and field training followed by three years of military service as the Regimental Medical Officer with the Second Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment.The early historical novels consisted of the Canadian Army Trilogy in which the first had to do with the Verri癡res Ridge in Normandy; the second with the costly river assault crossing of the Lamone River in Italy; the third novel goes back to the First World War, Lucifer's Gate, after the Menin Gate through which the Canadian soldiers passed on the way to the Flanders battlefields. The next two novels included The Afternoon of the Women, about therapy in a psychiatrist's office, and the second, North of the Tai, about a boy growing up in Japanese occupied China.The most recent two novels were about the War of 1812, the first, The Red Dawn, on the battles for Niagara, and the second, Bastion of Empire, was about Fort St Joseph.This brings us to Gone for Doctors, the eighth novel, not an historical account but about doctors. Don MacMillan visits the land lady for the boarding house he shared with the main character, Michael Hogan, when they were students at Western University. Don wanted to know had Michael already left for the McGill medical school. He was told that Michael had "Gone for Doctors."Four medical students form a study group they call their cabal, which meets after the weekly pathology class. The cabal helps them though the cadaveric stench of the anatomy laboratory, and the ancillary classes in histology and physiology of their first year of medical school. It follows them through their clinical years, their personal lives and medical careers.
Gone for Doctors
The author has seven published novels. His enduring interest in Canadian Army history is based on having attended the McGill medical school through the Regular Officer Training Program which required three summers of basic and field training followed by three years of military service as the Regimental Medical Officer with the Second Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment.The early historical novels consisted of the Canadian Army Trilogy in which the first had to do with the Verri癡res Ridge in Normandy; the second with the costly river assault crossing of the Lamone River in Italy; the third novel goes back to the First World War, Lucifer's Gate, after the Menin Gate through which the Canadian soldiers passed on the way to the Flanders battlefields. The next two novels included The Afternoon of the Women, about therapy in a psychiatrist's office, and the second, North of the Tai, about a boy growing up in Japanese occupied China.The most recent two novels were about the War of 1812, the first, The Red Dawn, on the battles for Niagara, and the second, Bastion of Empire, was about Fort St Joseph.This brings us to Gone for Doctors, the eighth novel, not an historical account but about doctors. Don MacMillan visits the land lady for the boarding house he shared with the main character, Michael Hogan, when they were students at Western University. Don wanted to know had Michael already left for the McGill medical school. He was told that Michael had "Gone for Doctors."Four medical students form a study group they call their cabal, which meets after the weekly pathology class. The cabal helps them though the cadaveric stench of the anatomy laboratory, and the ancillary classes in histology and physiology of their first year of medical school. It follows them through their clinical years, their personal lives and medical careers.
Father of the Man
Edward Finlay recalls his life's odyssey beginning in the 1890s on his family ranch in rural Montana. His childhood revolves around three people: his father, a cattle rancher; his mother, who is determined for her son to receive a modern education; and his best friend, a boy from the nearby Crow Indian Reservation, who introduces him to a fading warrior society. When Edward refuses to break off a teenage romance with an older woman from the reservation, his mother arranges to send Edward far away to the newly opened Stanford University. There, the San Francisco earthquake completely changes the direction of his future. After volunteering in a U.S. Army field hospital, he decides to become a surgeon. Soon, he begins his medical career and a life filled with friendship, new love, and extraordinary adventure as he brushes with history across two continents.Edward confronts many adversaries during his journey: dormitory bullies, traitors to the British Empire and its monarchy, and even a child psychopath. The greatest of these villains are the promoters of eugenics, which threaten his intellectually disabled son, and the Germans at Orhdruf (the first concentration camp liberated by the U.S. Army in WW2). As a son, husband, father, pioneering vascular surgeon, and veteran of two world wars, he attempts to understand the inequities of fortune and the inexplicable cruelty he encounters.
