Showing results for "Stories" in Medical

Bloomsbury presents The Lost Boys by Tim Sullivan, read by Finlay Robertson. Don't miss THE BOOKSELLER, the latest George Cross Mystery - available now. A short story from the George Cross Mystery series. DS George Cross's father, Raymond, always takes an annual holiday in a local care home. He...

From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field.

Diagnosed as severely autistic at the age of three, Tito, nearly nonverbal, was brought up by his loving mother Soma, who taught him to read English and challenged him to write his own stories. The initial result was The Mind Tree, published in 2003, which Tito wrote between the ages of eight and 11. The Gold of the Sunbeams is an equally impressive, beautiful collection of stories, each prefaced by a charming note from Tito explaining how the story came into being.

The Things We Keep is a moving and heartbreaking love story by Sally Hepworth. Just because you can't remember, doesn't mean you can't love . . . Anna Forster is thirty-eight years old and has started to suffer from the early stages of Alzheimer's. She knows that her family is doing what they...

Bloomsbury presents The Ex-Wife by Tim Sullivan, read by Finlay Robertson. Don't miss THE BOOKSELLER, the latest George Cross Mystery - available now. An exclusive short story based on a true case. A cold case. A cremated body. A killer brought to justice. David North was convicted of murdering...

Fans of Patrick Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. But there was a time, shortly after arriving in Ballybucklebo, that Dr. O'Reilly was not widely...

Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour. These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an...

It’s the winter of 1967 and snow is on the ground in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, but the chilly weather can’t stop love from warming hearts all over the county. Not just the love between a man and woman, as with young doctor, Barry Laverty, and his fiancee Sue Nolan, who are...

Hundreds of years after a plague-induced apocalypse collapsed civilization back to iron and horsepower, the Hyllises have a genetic tendency to inherit “talents” such as telekinesis, teleportation, and telepathy. Though they aren’t powerful talents, they help the Hyllises diagnose and treat the underlying causes of many illnesses in their role as healers. In this book, their town of Clancy Vail is struck by the plague. In order to save thousands of lives, they must master and use the knowledge of epidemiology contained in their copies of the ancients’ books.

A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident - and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt. Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also THE go-to facility in assisted dying. For a cut, they make impatient heirs happy. Nameless must concoct a scheme just as cunning.

A Jewish widow and a mysterious stranger help her son Benjamin overcome polio, while refugees from Nazi death camps find safety, and spies threaten Galveston. As clouds of war gather, a man crashes his car into Sarah’s front yard and dies in her front yard. Almost at once, the young widow finds her life full of danger following that day. Sarah will learn that her crippled son has a secret - one that he believes must never be revealed.

Les filles endormies ne ressentent pas la douleur ! Ou bien ? Lorsque, à l’aube, on a découvert le corps atrocement mutilé d’une jeune femme, la police a d’abord privilégié la thèse d’un meurtre classique. Mais deux profondes plaies par arme blanche à la tête et la mise en scène...

contemporary fiction, emotional drama, relationships, modern romance, love and loyalty, personal growth, close friends, female protagonist, commitment fears, marriage test, friendship dynamics, life choices, family ties, self-discovery, emotional conflict, relational tension, new beginnings...

Seven years after making her escape from an abusive marriage, Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman is settling into her position as medical examiner in the city of San Francisco. Doing what she loves, she can almost put the trauma of her past behind her—until she confronts the case of a young woman, 16 weeks pregnant. Everything about the case says the woman took her own life. As hard as Schwartzman tries to make peace with the evidence in her head, something about the case won’t leave her alone. She’s all too aware of how similar the circumstances are to her own past.

Where have all the doctors gone? And why, when I finally see someone, does he or she spend all our time behind the computer instead of examining me? How come my insurance is more and more expensive, and pays for less and less? And why do my medications cost so much? Based on legal cases, patient stories, interviews, hundreds of nonfiction articles and books, and Dr. Sweet's own experience as a physician, Convictions is a fictionalized account of what is really going on in healthcare behind the scenes. Listen to it.

A collection of short medical stories about medical misadventures in the daily life of medical professionals.

Als Kale Hatfield und Rachel Finley sich endlich wiederfinden, scheint die Vergangenheit noch einmal eine Chance zu geben. Doch sie sind nicht allein. Zwischen ihnen steht Lydia – eine Frau mit eigenen Geheimnissen, gefährlichen Plänen und einer Verbindung zu Kale, die Rachel nie erwartet hätte. Während alte Wahrheiten ans Licht kommen, droht Kales fragile Kontrolle über seine Persönlichkeiten zu zerbrechen. Die Stimmen in ihm werden lauter. Die Gewalt rückt näher. Und plötzlich geht es nicht mehr nur um Liebe oder Vergebung – sondern um Leben und Tod.

Rachel trägt eine Schuld, die sie kaum ertragen kann. Denn sie glaubt, den einzigen Menschen, den sie jemals geliebt hat, in den Tod geschickt zu haben: Kale Hatfield. Vier Jahre nach seinem Verschwinden kehrt er aus der Dunkelheit zurück - gezeichnet von Gewalt, Erinnerungslücken und der zerstörerischen Macht seiner eigenen Persönlichkeiten. Doch die Vergangenheit ist noch lange nicht begraben. Als Rachel beginnt, nach der Wahrheit zu suchen, führt ihre Spur zu einem Ort voller Geheimnisse: Lydias Haus. Hier treffen Liebe, Obsession und Manipulation aufeinander.

Ride along with four calls in my career. Each one is based on true events, names and specific details have been changed for legal and privacy purposes. Otherwise, these calls are what happened based on my experience. You will ride along in my deep first-person perspective. It is intense. It is adult. It is life changing. The job is intense, grueling, and requires mental, emotional, and physical resilience. Most paramedics quit within the first few years. We leave EMS because of low pay, high stress, and bad work-life balance. So why do the job? Because we love it.

At a secretive medical institute, cutting-edge stem cell therapies offer hope of reversing aging itself. But as powerful elites line up for a chance at immortality, the experimental treatments reveal chilling side effects. Alexa Hampton only wanted to extend her life. Now she's fighting to hold on to her memories, her identity, and her very humanity. Across the country, journalist Stone Aimes races to expose the truth behind the institute's astonishing breakthroughs before it's too late.