Karma Tweak
A railway crossing, a headlight, an oncoming train, and a man standing paralyzed in its path. Joseph is in mortal danger, and his "mind" is computing escape solutions... Joseph Graybar, an FBI special agent lands in India to apprehend a criminal from the United States, and finds himself in the middle of a violent world, where the local police are hot on the heels of a gang of outlaws. His quarry, an Indian citizen, becomes the newest member of this gang, and raises the stake by a personal wager with the head outlaw, an illiterate cutthroat with an immense ego. Stuck in a foreign land with strange customs, and even stranger situations, Joseph becomes an impotent bystander, as the wager exacerbates from one gory act to another. The murder of a local movie actor can only be bested by an assassination attempt on a much grander scale; embroiling in its wake a homosexual commando, a scheming politician and a vengeful madam. To add to Joseph's frustration, a long-standing stomach ailment turns into a painful gastric ulcer requiring immediate treatment. His Indian counterpart suggests a local research institution and Joseph agrees to try it, albeit reluctantly as he is doubtful of local medical expertise. To his surprise, not only is he quickly cured of his ulcer, but is introduced to an astonishing world of international cutting-edge research where Indian know-how and American expertise blend to produce revolutionary remedies. His physician, Dr. Krishna, introduces him to a visiting American, Dr. Redding, and Joseph gradually discovers that the two physicians comprise a dynamic team who complement each others strengths - Dr. Krishna's judicious conservatism tempering the brilliant genius of Dr. Redding, in their unorthodox quest to alleviate human suffering. Little does Joseph realize that soon he will become an active participant in a radical experiment involving a brain implant...
The Progressive Hospital
In the midst of a global pandemic, a hospital is struggling financially and at risk of shutting down. Tim Anderson, a young analyst, embarks on a journey to implement a Lean management method to improve efficiencies. But as Tim becomes embroiled in the intricacies of an organization on the verge of collapse, he, along with his mentor Kate, discovers the harsh realities of the health care business and what it means to be a servant leader of those who devote their lives to caring for others. An inspiring tale that speaks to both caregivers and patients alike, The Progressive Hospital explores the dynamics and complexities of health care, and what can be achieved when organizational transformation embraces humanity.
The Forever Place
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE QUARANTINE STATIONWe lived for them, craved them, set them free.Invincible. We were the wild ones. Criminal defence lawyer Marley Kincaid appears perfect from the outside - beautiful, intelligent, successful. Nobody would guess she was falling apart on the inside. Ever since tragedy rocked her life two years ago, she has sought solace in alcohol.When Marley finally hits rock bottom, her sister intervenes, sending her to White Cedar, an island off the coast of Nova Scotia in the vast and wild North Atlantic Ocean. There she is expected to attempt sobriety and recover, but life on the island is more challenging than she ever expected. New friendships and an unexpected love see her through the dark days, but in that place of forever, can Marley weather the storms to carve a new life, or will the regrets of her past pull her under?
A Swarm in May
Dr. Phineas Mann has come a long way from the darkness in his past. He has a loving wife, two bright children, a lively interest in beekeeping, and a rewarding career in intensive care medicine.And then a challenging case presents: an elderly man in the throes of full-blown tetanus. To make a difficult case worse, the patient's openly racist son abuses and threatens his father's medical team, especially the Black intern.When inexplicable setbacks occur, the son's threats escalate, and the darkness from Phineas' past comes roaring into the present.A Swarm in May is the debut novel of a doctor and beekeeper and weaves systemic racism, Little League baseball, and the art and science of beekeeping into a riveting medical mystery.
Bawdy Double
The Premier's adult daughter begins to behave with an utter absence of wherewithal and insight. An Admiral's dreamboat son engages in five years of profligate behavior after his sterling, top-of-his-class Academy graduation.A doctor called in to examine both scions determines they're mutaclones. Her wife kidnapped and her clinic bombed, the doctor flees across the galaxy - into the stronghold of her antagonists.
Bawdy Double
The Premier's adult daughter begins to behave with an utter absence of wherewithal and insight. An Admiral's dreamboat son engages in five years of profligate behavior after his sterling, top-of-his-class Academy graduation.A doctor called in to examine both scions determines they're mutaclones. Her wife kidnapped and her clinic bombed, the doctor flees across the galaxy - into the stronghold of her antagonists.This is the large print edition of Bawdy Double, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Bawdy Double
The Premier's adult daughter begins to behave with an utter absence of wherewithal and insight. An Admiral's dreamboat son engages in five years of profligate behavior after his sterling, top-of-his-class Academy graduation.A doctor called in to examine both scions determines they're mutaclones. Her wife kidnapped and her clinic bombed, the doctor flees across the galaxy - into the stronghold of her antagonists.This is the large print edition of Bawdy Double, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Transplant
After four interns at NYC's Bellevue Hospital are indicted for kidnapping and murder, detectives Tommy Jackson and Orrin Rampersad get on the case.Dubbed by the press as the Mad Doctors, the interns allege that the mysterious Dr. Cyclops is the mastermind behind the operation, while all evidence points to gang leader Django Tamsulosin as having abducted the victims for organ and bionic limb transplants.The detectives believe that there's a cover-up, and the victims are refusing to testify. Desperate for answers, can Jackson and Rampersad learn the true secret of Dr. Cyclops, and bring the perpetrators of the horrific crimes to justice?This is the large print edition of Transplant, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Transplant
After four interns at NYC's Bellevue Hospital are indicted for kidnapping and murder, detectives Tommy Jackson and Orrin Rampersad get on the case.Dubbed by the press as the Mad Doctors, the interns allege that the mysterious Dr. Cyclops is the mastermind behind the operation, while all evidence points to gang leader Django Tamsulosin as having abducted the victims for organ and bionic limb transplants.The detectives believe that there's a cover-up, and the victims are refusing to testify. Desperate for answers, can Jackson and Rampersad learn the true secret of Dr. Cyclops, and bring the perpetrators of the horrific crimes to justice?This is the large print edition of Transplant, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Final Chance
Justin is acclimating inside the virtual world, but can he find the final element he needs to escape from the world of PIVOT?With Prima's help-or, perhaps, despite it-he has gotten to Insea, the capital of the Elven lands.Aided by Tina, who is desperate to help Justin recover from the accident she created, Justin decides to fight in the Tournament of Insea.The one problem?His chief rivals are a set of twins who believe they're reincarnated gods-and they'll stop at nothing to make sure they take power.Can Justin win? Will he awaken from his coma?It isn't just the future of humanity at stake. It's Justin's life, too.Go up and click BUY NOW or Read For Free and immerse yourself in the P.I.V.O.T. Lab Chronicles.**Previously published as a part of Too Young To Die
No Time To Quit
A push to regain a little of the relationship with his best friend before kids took him out of the picture. A mountain face that was not forgiving.Benjamin Ainsworth moves from job to job aimlessly, never allowing himself to be tied down.The problem is his friends are getting married, setting up house and looking to have children. His relationships are growing up into a world he doesn't want.He has a chance to regain a bit of the fun when his friend agrees to go mountain climbing before the big day.Cynical and self-absorbed he never considers the consequences until he wakes up. He can move, but has lost all memory of HOW to move.Anything.There is a promising technique that requires Benjamin to enter a virtual world. The problem? He will be forced to admit to his fears.The ground-breaking technology includes a hidden A.I. staying off the radar of the Department of Defense.Will he be the one treated, or will his attitude perhaps affect the newly formed and still learning entity?If he wants to move again, Benjamin Ainsworth has some growing to do whether he wants to or not.Sometimes, growing up after you are an adult is the hardest thing to do.Go up and click on BUY NOW or Read for Free and immerse yourself in No Time to Quit: Pivot Lab Chronicles Book Three.Then tell your friends to read it, too."Funny, with moments of punch-you-in-the-gut feels. Action with consequences. This isn't your normal read."
The Doctor’s Dilemma
The fragility of life. The persistence of hope. The marvels of medicine.Doctors are our modern saviors. And, yet who is the surgeon behind the mask or the doctor behind the stethoscope?In sixteen literary short stories, Daly Walker reveals the great weight that falls on the shoulders of healers. The line between life and death is often as thin as the blade of a surgeon's scalpel."India's Passage" reveals a surgeon facing his worst nightmare: a misstep that shakes his confidence and nearly ends his career. In "Blood" a surgeon must decide whether to save a life or respect a patient's religious beliefs. In "Boots on the Ground" a surgeon in Afghanistan confronts the irony of saving lives in the midst of a combat zone. And, in "Palliation" a doctor learns an important lesson about the Hippocratic oath.If you like stories brimming with emotion and characters whose flaws and self-doubts make them all the more human, then the luminous tales in Daly Walker's The Doctor's Dilemma will take you on profound journeys of discovery, redemption, and hope. Step inside the operating room where life hangs in the balance. Read The Doctor's Dilemma today.
Don’t Blame the Rats
Don't Blame the Rats is based on the life of Dr. Anthony Paul Sterling. Part true and part fiction, the author's story represents a compilation of his vivid imagination, gift of language, and desire to stir the inspiration of those who read his short stories and other explorations.He says, "The characters are mine and mine alone. The child is my granddaughter. I wanted her to be recognized in my writings."His book covers his life in New York City from 1955 to the present day, as well as his experiences in Vietnam.As for the rats: "On the outside Detective Adam was smiling but on the inside, he was down: he knew some facts that were very disheartening: all female and male prostitutes in New York City were HIV positive; few people could afford treatment; many of these people left the city and traveled over many states and foreign countries. He also knew that a single female rat can deliver 15,000 babies in litters in a single year, which meant billions world-wide. Imagine AIDS being carried and spread everywhere on the globe! He notified his superiors, then called the ASPCA, CDC, Board of Health and friends at Columbia University. The bottom line was: we need animals for testing and treatment." About the Author: Anthony Paul Sterling, M.D., Ph.D., says he "was born in a ghetto in New York City. I studied hard and became an orthopedic surgeon." Now retired and living in Florida, he was inspired to write this book by his granddaughter (because of the way she speaks to animals). Besides writing, he is an aficionado of competitive martial arts.
The Doctor’s Dilemma
The fragility of life. The persistence of hope. The marvels of medicine.And, yet who is the surgeon behind the mask or the doctor behind the stethoscope?In sixteen literary short stories, Daly Walker reveals the great weight that falls on the shoulders of healers. The line between life and death is often as thin as the blade of a surgeon's scalpel. "India's Passage" reveals a surgeon facing his worst nightmare: a misstep that shakes his confidence and nearly ends his career. In "Blood" a surgeon must decide whether to save a life or respect a patient's religious beliefs. In "Boots on the Ground" a surgeon in Afghanistan confronts the irony of saving lives in the midst of a combat zone. And, in "Palliation" a doctor learns an important lesson about the Hippocratic oath.If you like stories brimming with emotion and characters whose flaws and self-doubts make them all the more human, then the luminous tales in Daly Walker's The Doctor's Dilemma will take you on profound journeys of discovery, redemption, and hope. Read The Doctor's Dilemma today.
The Pre-Med That Could
★★★★★ "Best book ever for someone who is thinking medicine as a career!" - Reader review___A refreshing and inspiring take on a self-help book for young people looking to get into medical school!The Pre-Med thought about the giant hill ahead of her. Grades, volunteering, shadowing, and research. Test scores, essays, applications, and interviews.The road to medical school was going to be a difficult one.Lost, overwhelmed, and filled with self-doubt, a Pre-Med navigates the challenging and complicated route to medical school.Whether you are just beginning the journey to become a doctor, celebrating your acceptance to medical school, or looking for motivation anywhere along the way, you'll feel a special kinship with our Pre-Med as she overcomes obstacle after obstacle on her path to beating the odds.She has persistence, dedication, and a strong inner voice on her side but this isn't like anything she's ever taken on before.Will she figure it out?Does she have what it takes?Order your copy now and join her on her journey and be inspired on your path to Med School!
Breathing Liquid
What if you were offered your dream job but only temporarily? What if there were no clear path for afterwards? Would you take the leap? Breathing Liquid is based on the true events that led to Dr. Jay Greenspan being faced with this very situation. Throughout his career, Jay never worried about having a clear plan, and while many of his decisions became successes, he also suffered setbacks that would have left others afraid to step out of their comfort zones. Despite the devastating loss of pediatric patients, missed promotions, personal complications, and peer criticism, he remained positive, kind-hearted, and mission focused. These experiences helped prepare him for his dream job but none more so than the Standards of Behavior he learned from his mentor, Mark. Breathing Liquid follows Jay as he is shown how to define the innate traits that have brought him success and establish proven behaviors that allow him to keep saying yes when others say no.
Match
What do politics, living donor kidney transplants, and the current opioid crisis all have in common? Sarah Golden and Jackie Larsen, best friends since nursing school, could never have imagined that they'd end up as amateur sleuths searching to find a killer--for the second time! Jackie, a stay-at-home mom with marriage troubles, is racing the clock to get her young son, Wyatt, a living kidney donor to avoid the ravages of dialysis. Sarah, who has been living her career in the fast-paced world of organ transplantation, is helping expedite Wyatt's kidney transplant. Then a much-despised hospital colleague turns up dead of an opiate overdose--despite the fact that she'd never used drugs--and Sarah smells foul play. Her curiosity and tenacity pull Jackie, once again, into a life-and-death adventure that neither woman could have expected. Armed with smarts, tenacity, big hearts, and their raucous senses of humor, the pair gets the help of a few colorful friends to pursue the killer and take on the mission in the only style they both know how: straight on and arm-in-arm as the friends they've always been.
Round the Red Lamp
Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life (Arthur Conan Doyle)Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a volume collecting 15 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. These are medical and fantasy stories. The idea has been suggested to Conan Doyle by Jerome K. Jerome two years before when he was editor of The Idler. The red lamp was the usual sign of the general practitioner in England wrote Conan Doyle in the preface.Preface[Being an extract from a long and animated correspondence with a friend in America.]I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with a certain amount of realism. If you deal with this life at all, however, and if you are anxious to make your doctors something more than marionettes, it is quite essential that you should paint the darker side, since it is that which is principally presented to the surgeon or physician. He sees many beautiful things, it is true, fortitude and heroism, love and self-sacrifice but they are all called forth (as our nobler qualities are always called forth) by bitter sorrow and trial. One cannot write of medical life and be merry over it.Then why write of it, you may ask?If a subject is painful why treat it at all? I answer that it is the province of fiction to treat painful things as well as cheerful ones. The story which wiles away a weary hour fulfils an obviously good purpose, but not more so, I hold, than that which helps to emphasise the graver side of life. A tale which may startle the reader out of his usual grooves of thought, and shocks him into seriousness, plays the part of the alterative and tonic in medicine, bitter to the taste but bracing in the result. There are a few stories in this little collection which might have such an effect, and I have so far shared in your feeling that I have reserved them from serial publication. In book-form the reader can see that they are medical stories, and can, if he or she be so minded, avoid them. - Yours very truly, A. CONAN DOYLE.P.S. - You ask about the Red Lamp. It is the usual sign of the general practitioner in England.
Resuscitated
After enduring tragedies with earlier pregnancies, Martina and Derek Johnson have high hopes for their next baby. But the infant is born much too early and shows no signs of life in the delivery room. Dr. Sarah Belden must make a split-second decision: declare the severely premature baby to be stillborn and let nature take its course, or do everything possible to save him. Sarah feels duty-bound to resuscitate the tiny infant and does so with great skill. The child survives, but as he grows it becomes clear that the young boy is severely disabled. Struggling to raise their son, the Johnsons are crushed by medical debt and grow weary from stress. Feeling responsible for their misfortune, Sarah repeatedly second-guesses her decision and is tormented by self-doubt that threatens to destroy her promising career and tear apart her own budding family. The desperate parents reluctantly agree to drag themselves and Sarah Belden through the nobody-wins ordeal of a medical malpractice lawsuit. As the lawyers battle, a remarkable witness comes forward whose testimony can change the course of events.
The Vampire Inside Me
At twenty-one, Lucia Farris is graduating college and looking ahead to graduate school, believing her future to be bright and secure. But life comes to a painful halt when she is admitted to the hospital and rushed to several emergency surgeries. The doctors diagnose her with two new autoimmune diseases: pulmonary arterial hypertension and lupus.Lucia doesn't know what to expect, but she knows her life is forever changed-nothing she's diagnosed with is curable, not that her life expectancy is more than six months, anyway. Her dreams, including working at the International Monetary Fund, seem grounded for good. In the present, told in an alternating timeline three years later, Lucia is lucky to be alive, but life will never be what it was. Yet, when she meets Oskar, an Austrian graduate student, her body is painfully aware of her reaction to him (and how long it's been since she hit her last O). From date one, sparks fly. When lips meeting becomes hips meeting, both find their bodies as dangerously compatible as their minds. As feelings shift toward more, Lucia's all too aware that her disease was "too much" for boyfriends in the past. And Oskar doesn't plan to stay in Atlanta forever. Still, there's a pull they just can't resist. **ownvoices, chronic-illness**
Tuesday Night Requiem
Episode #5 of Nurse Kit Carson's Knife & Gun Club: Nurse Kit Carson's life hangs by a thread. The deadly grippe has the town of High Plains under the gun and an assassin known as the Lone Gunman is delivering his own twisted form of justice. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bully Ratzer is hellbent on winning the governor's seat and Balmy Wether comes back to town to expose him.
Medical Horror Stories
Medical Horror Stories - Volume 2 continues on the momentum of the first volume with 10 additional medical stories. These stories are equally astonishing. This collection is designed to make you laugh and cringe at the same time. They will be instructive and inspiring from the beautifully written pages. Don't miss out on the next set of crazy medical stories.
Crazy Medical Stories
Author Scott Kemp introduces you to an unimaginable world of medicine where you just might find some of the craziest and most incredible stories about patients in and around the Exam Room. This collection of tales will surprise even the most seasoned medical professional. Crazy Medical Stories
Resurrecting Fledgling
This is a story of healing set in the context of a wealthy philanthropist who gathers a dedicated group of Christian faithful to resurrect a dying town by creating a high quality medical center. It is more than the challenges, labor and sacrifice required by this ambitious ten year project. We enter the lives of multiple citizens from this poor and medically underserved area. The rich ebb and flow of their hardships, disappointments, and redemptions is the real meat of the story. Humans, of course, are God's creations, so the reader also finds joy, along with the satisfaction of seeing a main character's hatred and quest for revenge quelled by compassion, reconciliation and love. 1 Corinthians 13:13. - Bill E. Barry MD
Give No Ground
Dorothy spent most of her life doing the right thing. Now, widowed and with a cancer diagnosis, she's ready to cut loose in the world of PIVOT. After learning magic and defending a caravan from a set of elves with a seriously overblown sense of superiority, Dotty had only one request: in her next game, she wanted to be uglier. So, she's an orc now, tusks and all. And when she finds out that a group of dragons have been posing as gods to prey on orc villages, she is not going to stand for that...even if it means giving a legendary orc shaman the dressing down of his life. Hey, you don't raise 4 children, 7 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren without getting REALLY good at reading the riot act.Go up and click on BUY NOW or Read For Free and immerse yourself in Give No Ground, P.I.V.O.T. Lab Chronicles Book Five.Then tell your friends to read it, too.
The Examined Life
When Theodore Dalrymple wrote The Examined Life, poking fun at modern man's excessive concern for his own health, he little thought that Covid-19 would soon turn satire into reality. Are there considerations in life other, or more important, than health? The protagonist of this biting satire knew the answer even before Covid-19 struck. Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris.
Shadow Land
When night falls upon Ditchfield Juvenile Detention Facility in the Maryland foothills, whatever the watch tower lights don't touch is taken by the shadows. Inside are young men the state calls lost causes and future convicts. The violent. The mentally ill. The forgotten.Gordon Pope hates Ditchfield. Rumors have swirled about the place for years. Whispers of beatings. Mental abuse. Even experiments. Every patient he's had that ended up there took a chunk of his heart with them.One of those patients is a young man named Charlie Cunningham. He knows all too well that the rumors are true. That's why Charlie has a plan. By the time the crooked guards do nighttime rounds, he'll be long gone.Charlie has unfinished business with the dark side of Baltimore. And with Gordon Pope. He made a promise to his sister. One he intends to keep, no matter what.The Baltimore City Police are about to go on high alert. And when they do, Detective Dana Frisco and Marty Cicero are all that stands between Gordon Pope and the oncoming storm.What readers are saying: ★★★★★ - "Wonderful addition to the other two in the series!" ★★★★★ - "Better and Better" ★★★★★ - "Dont' miss out on reading this book!" ★★★★★ - "Love Gordon Pope!"
The Young Coyote
The Young Coyote tells the hard-hitting story of a boy from Cipher, Arizona who is expected to be a zero just like his town. He has no intention of fitting into that conventional wisdom and fights with his fists and his mind to get up and out of his straitened circumstances. He makes it to Stanford University with a pugnacious attitude where he meets snobbery and prejudice. At Stanford, he finds out that his real fight is just beginning. Garven Wilsonhulme will succeed at any cost.
The Vulture and the Phoenix
Arthur Koestler, the notable twentieth century playwright said, "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion." Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author, writes with gripping realism about the point in Garven Wilsonhulme, M.D., F.A.C.S's life when he turns the hopes and aspirations of his family, friends, colleagues, and opponents into illusions. In so doing, he realizes that he has become both The Vulture and The Phoenix in his own life. He scrambles to the heights of fame, prestige, riches, and cruelty. There, he meets a wall of opposition and begins the final great fight of his complicated life and career. What he does will surprise and amaze you. This is the finale of the successful Saga of a Neurosurgeon series.
Anything Goes
Anything Goes finds Garven Wilsonhulme, a boyish prankster, champion college wrestler, and sociopathic driven competitor struggling his way to the pinnacle of success in his university life. There is nothing he will not do to get into medical school--nothing. He is willing to use his friends, destroy his enemies, lie, cheat, and steal to get there if that is what it takes. Anything Goes is the story of how that success is achieved and at what cost--to himself, to his family, and even to his friends. That cost includes alienating the most prominent professor at Stanford, which is only the beginning of his willingness to take on all comers in the jungle of modern competition.
All in Jest
"It is really quite simple," the renowned French Canadian expert on pituitary surgery began his answer. Neurosurgeon defendant Sybil Norcroft, M.D., F.A.C.S., PhD steeled herself to hear the description that could possibly spell the end of her rising career. Even a glance at the imperturbable face of her defense attorney failed to convey any calm to the roiling tempest in the surgeon's brain. Plaintiff's Attorney Paul Bel Geddes was the attack dog who declared a jihad against Dr. Norcroft in the Brendan McNeely malpractice case and hounded her then and afterward to the point of distraction. The case seared Sybil's soul because she had her own doubts about how and why the handsome young scion of the wealthiest family in the city had bled to death on her operating table. Bel Geddes could not let the animosity that was engendered by the McNeely case go, and he relentlessly pursued the famous woman neurosurgeon in a personal crusade. After years of harassment, Sybil Norcroft had had enough, and she applied her brilliant mind and her considerable resources to ending the war declared against her. The war was a classic example of uncivil justice both in and out of the courtroom. How the JEST comes about is worth the reading. The book is full of fun, humor, anger, fear, pathos, intense emotional conflict, and tense and riveting courtroom drama. There is a considerable amount of theater outside the courts as well. You will want to read it in one sitting and to pass it along to your family and friends the next day.
Catching Babies
The birthing of a new baby is one of life's great medical and human dramas. When it goes well, it is a loud and joyful mess. But when it goes badly, it is a travesty, devastating not only to hopeful mothers, but also to their doctors regardless of how well they have learned to anticipate and navigate the myriad hazards of obstetric medicine.Catching Babies charts the professional and personal struggles of those doctors. In the halls of a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies and embark on ambitious careers, all while trying to hold their lives together at the seams. Based on true stories from delivery rooms and labor decks, Catching Babies spins the doctors' stories into a gripping mosaic of the obsessions, the anxieties, and the heroism of doctors who have chosen to preside over life's greatest medical drama: high-risk childbirth.
Academia
Academia: The Law of the Jungle by Author Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author who writes with such gripping realism, is a novel of a driven man who finally gets to be a surgeon in training and then an academic neurosurgeon on his way to the top of his profession. He watched the fall from glory of his mentor, and came face to face with his greatest opponents in the fang-and-claw competition of a merciless competition at the heights of prestige.
Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell is a novel of a man's driven life, one of overarching ambition. Here, Garven Wilsonhulme, would-be neurosurgeon, enters medical school and learns about the grim realities of competing for his place in a class where 50% of the students will be gone by the time of graduation. He makes life-long friends and enemies and faces for the first time what it is to be a student of the human condition and what life as a physician will hold for him. He learned a mnemonic ditty for the bones of the wrist: "Never Lower Tillie's Pants, Grandmother Might Come Home" and how to save a boy dying from meningitis. In Heaven and Hell, Garven is first introduced to the gripping world of neurosurgery by the man who becomes his mentor. That meeting proves to be life changing.
The Long Climb
Garven Wilsonhulme almost gasped as his prospective father-in-law handed him a check for a huge sum. He could not imagine himself in possession of a sum which would answer his every need until he could start making a handsome living as a brain surgeon. He looked at the gloating expression on his adversary's face-a look of triumph. To the young M.D., it seemed that he had become engaged in a social poker game with, for him, stupendous consequences riding on how he plays his hand. He could take the sure figure and run, or he could ask for even more. In either case he would crush the innocent pawn in all of this, Elizabeth. That was a secondary consideration, he had to admit to himself. Or he could do the "right thing" and turn the man down indignantly and marry his daughter and live happily ever after--in relative poverty. This is the crux of The Long Climb. What Garven does about his choice is likely to be the foundation of his life as a neurosurgeon and the stuff of a great story. The Long Climb, is the newest novel by Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author who writes with gripping realism.
The End of Up
The mountains of Japan are steeped in human history. Gary and Don challenge themselves and the trails as they reconnect and tell stories; tales of Japan, adventure, and the meaning of being human. Deep in both these old friends' lives, percolating diseases threaten to harm them. Inside their anecdotes may be solutions to their problems.
Why are you, you?
We live our lives behind masks. Some were handed down to us, some we put on ourselves.
The Problem with Nurse Emma
Emma's goal in life was to become a wife to her childhood sweetheart. However, six months before their planned wedding, tragedy stuck and the love of her life was killed in a skiing accident. He died in her arms atop a snow-covered mountain and she was helpless to save him. Driven by her guilt over Brock's death, Emma was determined to never again be helpless in the face of a life or death emergency. She devoted herself to becoming a nurse, hoping that by saving others she could heal her own heart. When she takes a position as a nurse in St. Rita's Hospital she finds herself unprepared for the trauma, and drama, that comes with working in an Emergency Room. Emma's skills are tested with a host of bizarre medical emergencies, but her most challenging problem is the love-hate relationship with the handsome, but arrogant, Dr. Russo.
Learning to Soar
Learn all about Turners Syndrome so you can feel knowledgable and equipped moving forward - whether you have the condition or know someone who does.What is Turners Syndrome What is different about girls with TS, internally or externally? What are the symptoms and concerns - medically, mentally, socially......? How do they cope in their everyday lives?
One Day of Lucidity
Isabella Cunningham awakens to find herself being cared for by unfamiliar people, in an unfamiliar setting, and with little knowledge of how this has come to be. She can no longer talk or move, and to her further dismay is confined within a nursing bed. Unable to fully express herself, Isabella's only means of solace lie in her love for classical music, her enduring sense of humour, a passionate determination to be reunited with her loved ones - particularly her husband - and to discover what ailments now forge their cruel hold.Through a series of peculiar events and moving flashbacks, Isabella gradually learns of what is inflicting her body and mind, her true age, and why her family appear to be so distant at times - all during this one day of lucidity. As the reader, you are placed into Isabella's vulnerable position - to look through her eyes - to see and feel what she is going through. The author has written this novel to highlight some common provisions and experiences relating to cancer, dementia and palliative care, in the hope of addressing the wrongful stigma that still surrounds them.There are many people like Isabella in our world, and this book is dedicated to each of them and their caregivers.An ideal read for fans of Lisa Genova and Wendy Mitchell.About the Author: Andrew John Bell has worked in a private Care Home setting as a Care Assistant, and then as a Senior Care Assistant, for almost a decade. During this time, Andrew has assisted in meeting the needs of residents who are sadly reaching, and who have reached, the end of their lives. He has used his own personal experiences to write this novel and continues to be an advocate for mental health awareness via social media. Andrew was born in County Durham, England, and continues to reside there with his wife and their two daughters. *** Review Highlights (Amazon, UK) ***"I would recommend this book to anyone either working in the care industry or someone who has helped a member of their family through this dreadful illness.""I couldn't put it down. Some parts were funny... some parts were upsetting.""I found this book to be very enlightening.""Isabella is a likeable character and I felt a great empathy for her.""Interesting and very moving.""This book is a great insight.""Beautifully written."
Terminally Ill
Magic? Dr. Hope Sze steers clear of magic. But when "Elvis the Escape King" chains and nails himself inside a coffin and lowers himself into Montreal's St. Lawrence River, he can't break free. So Hope restarts his heart and saves his life. But now Elvis demands to know who sabotaged his stunt. Hope hung up her amateur detective badge two months ago in order to tend to cancer patients on palliative care. The only cases she solves right now are case studies on pain and over-stuffed emergency rooms. Which gets just the tiniest bit boring. Hope could escape Montreal any day now. She could transfer to Ottawa to join her ex-paramour, Ryan. No more unspeakable Montreal drivers and stymied medical care. No more working with the charming yet infuriating Dr. Tucker. Hope the Escape Artist can afford to act generous. As parting gift to Montreal, city of festivals (and murderers), she could help Elvis out. Just asking a few questions won't hurt anyone. Right? And so Hope plunges into her most unconventional and, possibly, her most terminal adventure yet. Where the magical art of escape and the dastardly art of crime vie for centre stage, and the better man may lose. Forever.
Critical
ANGELA DAWSON, M.D., APPEARS TO HAVE IT ALL: AT THE AGE OF THIRTY-SEVEN, SHE OWNS A FABULOUS NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT, A STUNNING SEASIDE HOUSE ON NANTUCKET, AND ENJOYS THE PERKS OF HER PROSPEROUS LIFESTYLE. BUT HER CLIMB TO THE TOP WAS ROUGH, MARKED BY A TROUBLED CHILDHOOD, A FAILED MARRIAGE, AND THE DEVASTATING BLOW OF BANKRUPTCY AS A PRIMARY-CARE INTERNIST. PAINFULLY AWARE OF THE ROLE OF ECONOMICS IN MODERN LIFE, PARTICULARLY IN THE HEALTH-CARE FIELD, ANGELA RETURNED TO SCHOOL TO EARN AN MBA. ARMED WITH A SHINY NEW DEGREE AND BLESSED WITH DETERMINATION, INTELLIGENCE, AND IMPECCABLE TIMING, ANGELA FOUNDED A START-UP COMPANY, ANGELS HEALTHCARE, THEN TOOK IT PUBLIC. WITH HER CONTROLLING INTEREST IN THREE BUSY SPECIALTY HOSPITALS IN NEW YORK CITY AND PLANS FOR OTHERS IN MIAMI AND LOS ANGELES, ANGELA`S FUTURE LOOKED VERY BRIGHT. THEN A SURGE OF DRUG-RESISTANT STAPH INFECTIONS IN ALL THREE HOSPITALS DEVASTATES ANGELA`S CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED WORLD. NOT ONLY DO THE INFECTIONS RESULT IN PATIENT DEATHS, BUT THE FATALITIES ALSO CAUSE STOCK PRICES TO TUMBLE, LEAVING MARKET ANALYSTS WONDERING IF ANGELA WILL BE ABLE TO HOLD HER EMPIRE TOGETHER. NEW YORK CITY MEDICAL EXAMINERS LAURIE MONTGOMERY AND JACK STAPLETON ARE NATURALLY INTRIGUED BY THE UPTICK IN STAPH-RELATED POST-PROCEDURE DEATHS. ASIDE FROM THEIR OWN PROFESSIONAL CURIOSITY, THERE`S A PERSONAL STAKE AS WELL: LAURIE AND JACK ARE NEWLY MARRIED, AND JACK IS FACING SURGERY TO REPAIR A TORN LIGAMENT AT ANGELS ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL. DESPITE JACK`S PROTESTS, LAURIE CAN`T HELP INVESTIGATING-OPENING A PANDORA`S BOX OF CORPORATE INTRIGUE THAT THREATENS NOT JUST HER LIVELIHOOD, BUT HER LIFE WITH JACK AS WELL. मार्च-एप्रिल २००७ मधल्या एका आठवड्यात एकमेकांना अजिबात न ओळखणा-या तीन माणसांच्या आरोग्याच्या संदर्भात सर्वस्वी अनपेक्षित अशा घटना घडल्या. ह्या घटनांमध्ये दोघांचा जीव गेला आणि शिवाय हजारो लोकांच्या जीवनांवर गंभीर परिणाम झाले. या घटनांमध्ये बळी पडलेल्या लोकांना असं काही होणार, याची पुसटशीही कल्पना नव्हती. या तिघांमधला एक गोरा डॉक्टर होता. दुसरा आफ्रिकन-अमेरिकन असून तो कॉम्प्युटर प्रोग्
Seizure
THE BRILLIANT SCIENTIST DANIEL LOWELL, WHO HAS DEVELOPED THE TECHNIQUE OF CLONING OF THE HUMAN CELLS AND TREATING THE PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON DISEASE USING THIS TECHNIQUE AND AN AMBITIOUS SENATOR MR. BUTLER, WHO FULFILLS HIS POLITICAL CAUSES BY PLAYING WITH THE EMOTIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND; THEY FACE EACH OTHER. FINALLY, DANIEL AGREES TO THE UNLAWFUL PROPOSAL BY THE SENATOR, HE AGREES TO USE THE GENETICS IN A WAY NO ONE HAS EVER DREAMT OF BEFORE. BUT DANIEL PUTS ONE CONDITION FOR THE SENATOR TO FULFILL; HE INSISTS THAT THE GENES NEEDED FOR THIS EXPERIMENT SHOULD COME STRAIGHT FROM THE SHRINE OF JESUS CHRIST. THIS LEADS TO A SERIES OF CHECK AND CHECKMATE. पेशींचे क्लोनिंग करून मानवजातीला ग्रासणा-या पार्किन्सन्ससारख्या आनुवंशिक विकारांवर उपचार करण्याचे तंत्र विकसित करणारा, विलक्षण बुद्धिमत्तेचा शास्त्रज्ञ डॅनियल लॉवेल आणि लोकांच्या भावनांशी खेळून स्वत चा राजकीय मतलब साधणारा एक महत्त्वाकांक्षी सिनेटर, एकमेकांच्या समोर उभे ठाकतात. पेचातून सुटका व्हावी म्हणून डॅनियल सिनेटर बटलरचा अनैतिक प्रस्ताव मान्य करून, कोणी कधी न केलेले जनुक उपचार करायला तयार होतो. उपचारासाठी लागणारे जनुक थेट खिस्ताच्या रक्तापासून मिळवण्याची विलक्षण अट बटलर घालतो आणि त्यातून सुरू होते ती पेच-डावपेचांची जीवघेणी मालिका...
The Sin Eaters
Nip. Tuck. Cut. Kill.Cheek implants.Botox.He's only 22 years old. What's he trying to hide behind plastic surgery?Dr. Hope Sze scours the Internet for real-life clues to this patient's past, present, and deadly future.Photos. Videos. And anything else she and her computer-savvy boyfriend can link to him before it's too late."The Sin Eaters," inspired by a true case of murder in Montreal and a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for the best crime story in Canada.Accompanied by essay by the author exploring the real-life killer who committed one of Canada's most vicious crimes-and the police officers and civilians who put him behind bars.These events take place between Terminally Ill (Hope Sze #3) and Stockholm Syndrome (Hope Sze #4)Originally published in Montreal Noir.One doctor plunges through the looking glass. And the scalpel. And an online game of truth or dare."There are many standouts ... especially ... Melissa Yi's The Sin Eaters (featuring C繫te-des-Neiges)." Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail"Melissa Yi profiles a young medical resident who is drawn into the murky world of plastic surgery, where, by definition, people are not always what they seem. Smart and sassy, this time she might be in over her head." Jim Napier, Reviewing the Evidence"A bicultural roster of talent by some of the city's best crime-fiction specialists, with tales from the city's many neighbourhoods. Some examples: Melissa Yi's "The Sin Eaters" is set in C繫te-des-Neiges .... " Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star"Hope Sze, the modern heroine of Melissa Yi's "The Sin Eaters," finds solace in a venerable Yiddish proverb .... Whether it's the quirkiness of the characters, the ingenuity of the puzzles, or the big hearts inside some of the darkest villains, noir's different north of the border. Here's hoping readers will say 'Vive la difference.'" Kirkus Review, profiling "The Sin Eaters" as it first appeared in Montreal NoirPRAISE FOR THE HOPE SZE SERIES#1 Mystery Selection-CBC Books, on Human Remains. Recommended authors also include Louise Penny and Maureen Jennings"[A] scarier-than-ever medical mystery," Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail, naming Human Remains one of the best Canadian suspense booksOne of the best crime novels of the season. CBC's The Next Chapter Mystery Panel, on Stockholm syndrome"Drawing on her personal experiences in the ER in Canada, Melissa has created medical thrillers that shine with authenticity and are impossible to put down."-Kris Nelscott, New York Times bestsellerMelissa Yi is a talented writer."-June Lorraine, Murder in Common
21 Days
The President of South Africa announces a 21 day lockdown because of COVID-19. As the unprecedented lockdown kicks in, city residents find their lives changed in all kinds of ways. 21 Days is a story set in a Johannesburg North suburb called Twinstreams which is not only the confluence of two streams, but also two social classes. One is an immigrant family from Lesotho, with dreams of an elusive better life, squatting on one side of the stream. All Thabo wants to do is provide a good life for his family but the lockdown forces him down a path he never would have contemplated, On the other side of the stream, a lefty middle class family is living the dream despite also starting over after moving from Zimbabwe. The stream's running waters also attract a rather noisy church on Sunday mornings. The middle class family grapples with the need for security, peace and quiet in a country side setting within the city and their social justice leanings. It is also about their maid, with South African ancestry, but born and raised in Zimbabwe, who the middle class family moved with when they come to South Africa. There's also a young student doctor, born in to privilege and teased for it by his mates, who spots the opportunity created by the ban on the sale of alcohol and takes advantage of his status to cruise the suburban streets selling alcohol at a huge profit. How do the residents cope with the new normal and find out how fate draws all of them together with a twist right at the end of the book.
To Bury the Cloud
Jules Westcott has a gray cloud hanging over her head, which she cannot shed. She has long left her childhood home in upstate New York for New York City, yet her worldview has been significantly shaped by childhood memories and experiences.As a member of a rehabilitative team in a hospital, she is constantly mindful of others' stories and needs and attempts to maximize their rehabilitative process. However, participation in their cycle of care prompts memories of her own hidden past to surface. She acknowledges her pain, but is unable to confront her 'hanging cloud'. Without being fully cognizant of what is happening, recognition of the often dire situations of others generates the beginning of her inner healing.Ultimately, it is through her interaction with an abused young patient that she unravels and confronts her past and permits herself to defeat her internal cycle of pain and conflict.This is a story of healing through helping.
Decisions Made
It's time. Who will win this latest challenge? A young woman who fears sleeping.An AI on the brink of discovery.A government agent seeking what's hidden.Who will end up healed, hidden, or found?The final chapter closed. For now...Go up and click on BUY NOW or Read for Free and immerse yourself in the final closing chapter of the PIVOT CHRONICLES.Then tell your friends to read it too.** "Funny, with moments of punch-you-in-the-gut feels. Action with consequences. This isn't your normal read." **
Trauma Drama
Laboring in emergency rooms all around the country is a group of dedicated doctors and nurses who just want to make a difference. Some swear, some drink, and some laugh in order to manage their emotions while providing high-quality care in the most unimaginable, shocking, and difficult cases. Among this group of highly skilled medical professionals is Goldie Fisher, a nurse who is completing her first week of orientation at a level one trauma center. As she immerses herself in the organized chaos she now calls work, Goldie must learn how to control her emotions while juggling a diverse caseload, each with a new challenge. While caring for patients battling mental health issues, drug addiction, car accident injuries, gunshot wounds, and many other ailments, Goldie soon learns to rely on her adrenaline, inner-strength, and perseverance to endure the wild ride that comes with life as an emergency room nurse.Trauma Drama is the exciting story of an emergency room nurse's experiences as she embraces the ups and downs that accompany saving lives in a level one trauma center.
