medical novels

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Tuan

1988
When Tuan suffers a dog bite and is rushed to the hospital, his doctor sets out to find a serum in a country where medicine is scarce, Vietnam.

Poison

1997
Susannah Grant and her friends suspect something is very wrong when people keep showing up at the Med Center with similar complaints, but they never dreamed that someone with a grudge could be trying to ruin the hospital.

Arrowsmith

1961
The story of a doctor whose struggles to maintain integrity cost him positions as an instructor, a practicing physician, and a research pathologist.

The stain

1997
When Dr. Seth Berringer discovers a body, he concludes the murderer is one of his patients who had told him of his homicidal fantasies. After Seth attempts to alter the crime scene to protect his patient and his own job, an autopsy shows the cause of death to be a botched abortion and points to Seth as the killer.

Contagion

1996
Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its more costly subscribers.

Shock

2002
Graduate students and best friends Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner are shocked by what they find when they investigate the fate of the eggs they donated to a Boston fertility clinic shrouded in secrecy.

Godplayer

2000
Dr. Cassandra Kingsley is investigating sudden surgical deaths at Boston Memorial Hospital and her husband, a top surgeon, seems headed for a breakdown. Cassi is admitted to the hospital for an eye operation and she becomes the "Godplayer's" next target.

Terminal

1994
Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.

State of wonder

2012
When Marina Singh's mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who was working on a valuable new drug, disappears in the Amazon, Marina is tasked with finding her. Despite the fact that the last person sent to find Dr. Swenson died during the course of his search, Marina sets out and encounters more than a few unusual twists along the way.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

2007
The story of inmates fighting back against authority in a mental asylum ward run by a cruel nurse.

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