When her beloved sister Claire is struck by a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working and hanging out with friends is transformed into a nightmare of doctors and hospitals.
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist on cutting-edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with the help of classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital's supposedly secure biosafety lab.
Froggy isn't looking forward to his check-up because he might get a shot but when it's over and he's pronounced a very healthy frog, Dr. Mugwort is the one who dreads Froggy's next visit.
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.
Martin Philips, assistant chief of neuroradiology at Hobson University Medical Center in New York City, and his lover Denise Sanger, a resident, investigate a series of bizarre events that result in a nightmare for both of them.
