«Себастьян лежал неподвижно. Не требовалось быть врачом, чтобы увидеть на его изможденном лице печать близкой и неизбежной смерти. — Вижу, вашему отцу досталось тяжелее всех, — негромко сказал молодой офицер. — Бедняга: он слишком стар для таких приключений. Не при вас будь сказано, мисс, но в нем, если по правде, жизнь едва теплитcя…При этих его словах Хильда содрогнулась от ужаса.— Слава всему святому: он не мой отец! — воскликнула она. — Но от всей души надеюсь, что он будет жить. Господи, только бы он выжил! Никогда и ничего я не желала так сильно… Он теперь — мой лучший, ближайший друг — и он же мой самый заклятый враг!»

Они врачи. Хорошие врачи. Слишком хорошие… Слишком хорошие, чтобы не быть абсолютно честными… Чтобы не потерять большую любовь… Чтобы избежать вечных неприятностей… Чтобы не страдать и не мучиться из-за чужой боли……И врачи становятся героями. Людьми, находящими выход из безвыходных ситуаций. Потому что мужество врача — это самое СИЛЬНОДЕЙСТВУЮЩЕЕ ЛЕКАРСТВО.

Это роман о фармацевтической компании и о людях, которые в ней работают.О том, как личные амбиции, халатность и подлог в таких компаниях губят жизни, калечат ни в чем неповинных людей.

В лесу у озера найдено изувеченное тело неизвестной женщины. Прямо из собственного дома исчезли две сестры-проповедницы и их приемные дети. Жестоко убита тихая, незаметная старушка. Полиция не видит связи между этими преступлениями. Однако Кей Скарпетта, подключившаяся к расследованию, убеждена: происходящее — дело рук одною человека. Более того, почерк убийцы удивительно напоминает действия маньяка. Бэзила Дженрета, на совести которого — десятки жизней. Но Дженрет давно находится в тюремной психиатрической больнице. Неужели его чудовищные деяния продолжил кто-то еще? Кей и ее команда пытаются выйти на след нового хищника…

В порту Ричмонда обнаружен грузовой контейнер с трупом неизвестного мужчины.

Зацепки полиции — загадочная надпись на стене контейнера и длинные светлые волосы на одежде жертвы.

Несколько дней спустя жестоко убита продавщица ночного магазина.

Ограбление? Такова первая версия следствия.

Но на месте преступления — длинные светлые волосы, идентичные тем, что найдены в контейнере…

Кей Скарпетта, подключившаяся к расследованию, убеждена: оба преступления совершил один человек.

Человек, который, похоже, считает себя опасным хищником…

Новая книга от автора нашумевшего сборника рассказов «Сыщики в белых халатах». Новые откровения судмедэксперта, участвовавшего в раскрытии сотен преступлений и ежедневно имеющего дело со смертью. Казалось бы, трудно найти работу более мрачную и депрессивную. Спасает специфический врачебный юмор и азарт расследования — ведь без «сыщиков в белых халатах» не обходится ни одно серьезное дело, от их заключения зависит, окажется ли преступник на скамье подсудимых, а порой им случается даже самим заглянуть в глаза убийце…

ГДЕ УМНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК ПРЯЧЕТ СВОИ ГРЕХИ? СРЕДИ ГРЕХОВ ЧУЖИХ…Ной Ротхаузер работает в Бостонской мемориальной больнице — одной из самых знаменитых клиник США. Все коллеги его любят и ценят — за исключением разве что эгоцентричного хирурга мирового уровня Уильяма Мейсона. Да и немудрено: Ной посмел обвинить звезду в ошибке, приведшей к смерти пациента. У молодого ординатора есть союзник — анестезиолог Ава Лондон, красавица и умница, в которую Ной влюблен, но количество смертей на операционном столе продолжает расти, и, расследуя их, Ротхаузер внезапно понимает, что его подруга не так уж идеальна. Почему, несмотря на прекрасные внешние данные и блестящее образование Ава так и не завела себе друзей среди коллег? Почему ее личная жизнь протекает только в соцсетях, да и то под чужим именем? И откуда у нее деньги на великолепный особняк в престижном районе?.. Начав задавать вопросы, Ной уже не может остановиться — но он пока не знает, в какие дебри заведет его стремление к истине.Шокирующий медицинский триллер от признанного мастера этого жанра, практикующего врача и автора множества бестселлеров New York Times Робина Кука.

A Case of Need is Michael Crichton’s award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare—and explode—when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?

**#1** New York Times **bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new riveting novel featuring her vastly popular character forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cellphone number.**

It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her.

An identified corpse soon turns up, only partly answering her questions.

To win answers to the others, including the man's identity, she must go rogue, working mostly outside the...

(Temperance Brennan #19)

Martin Philips and Denise Sanger were doctors, LOVERS — and desperately afraid

Both of them suspected that something was wrong — terribly wrong — in the great medical research center where they worked. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young woman had died on the operating table and had her brain secretly removed. Both of them found it impossible to explain the rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre mental breakdowns and shocking sexual behavior. Both of them were placing their careers and very lives in deadly jeopardy as they penetrated the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad with technological power and the lust for more...

George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc.

George’s initial collision with this incredible innovation is devastating. He awakens one morning to find his fiancée dead in bed alongside him, not long after she participated in an iDoc beta test. Then several of his patients die after undergoing imaging procedures. All of them had been part of the same beta test.

Is it possible that iDoc is being subverted by hackers — and that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up? Despite threats to both his career and his freedom, George relentlessly seeks the truth, knowing that if he’s right, the consequences could be lethal for him and countless others.

Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as “hybrid operating rooms of the future” — an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man. Noah suspects Dr. William Mason, an egotistical, world-class surgeon, of an error during the operation and of tampering with the patient’s record afterward. But Mason is quick to blame anesthesiologist, Dr. Ava London.

When more anesthesia-related deaths start to occur, Noah is forced to question all of the residents on his staff, including Ava, and he quickly realizes there’s more to her than what he sees. A social-media junkie, Ava has created multiple alternate personas for herself on the Internet. With his own job and credibility now in jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe — before any more lives are lost.

They called it “minor surgery,” but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others—all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up….

With her young son’s potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she’s been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero-sum game. Against the advice of her colleagues and her husband, fellow medical examiner Jack Stapleton, Laurie is determined to solve the mystery the case comes to represent.Satoshi Machita, a former Kyoto University researcher, is set to own a valuable patent controlling pluripotent stem cells destined to spark a trillion-dollar industry of regenerative medicine. When he dies on a crowded New York subway platform, Laurie must decide whether his death was natural — or something fiendish.Behind the scenes, there are people who would like to see Laurie as far away from the investigation as possible. Despite threats against her, Laurie presses on, until they extend to the person she loves most in the world: her son, JJ. Suddenly Laurie must face solving the crime — and saving her son’s life.

In a village outside Edinburgh, there is doubt that a genetically modified crop being grown is actually the one licensed by the government. Steven Dunbar, a medical investigator with Sci-Med is sent to investigate, but finds that the farmer who made the complaints, Thomas Rafferty, is a well known drunk. Rafferty has also applied for accreditation as an organic farmer, with the backing of two venture capitalists — who turn out to be ex-SAS, and possibly still working for the government in some capacity.As Steven investigates further his own life comes under threat, as does the survival of the village, and he must band together with his few allies to solve the mystery of the original complaint and the ever larger picture which slowly becomes clearer...

To uncover the secrets of a superdrug, a doctor must go undercover and risk it all…When a Hell’s Angel is thrown from his bike at 110 miles per hour, he should probably end up in the morgue. But this Angel survives his crash without a scratch, and ends up sleeping peacefully in the hospital. When Dr. Roger Clark inspects him, he finds only one defect: blue urine. Similar reports start to trickle in from hospitals upstate. It seems that a strange new drug is sending people into comas, and only Clark can unravel its mystery.His search for answers takes him on the strangest trip of his life, into a place called “Eden,” which looks like paradise, but feels like hell.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Michael Crichton including rare images from the author’s estate.

When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery’s autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren’t adding up. Kera’s family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are insisting the case be shrouded in silence. And although Kera was ten weeks pregnant, nobody seems to know who the father was — or whether he holds the key to Kera’s final moments alive.

As a medical emergency temporarily sidelines Laurie, impulsive Aria turns to a controversial new technique: using genealogic DNA databases to track down those who don’t want to be found. Working with experts at a start-up ancestry website, she plans to trace the fetus’s DNA back to likely male relatives in the hopes of identifying the mystery father. But when Kera’s closest friend and fellow social worker is murdered, the need for answers becomes even more urgent. Because someone out there clearly doesn’t want Kera’s secrets to come to light... and if Aria gets any closer to the truth, she and Laurie might find themselves a killer’s next targets.

Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina’s Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death.Devastated by Carl’s condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there’s more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixon — including her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender — to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice.What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine hospital admissions.When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they’re into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare and their partner, Sidereal Pharmaceuticals, can put a stop to their efforts once and for all.

Dr. Frank Simmons works in the University of Edinburgh’s medical school. One of his PhD students, brilliant loner Gavin, announces his intention to find a cure for cancer and actually makes a major breakthrough. Oddly, no one seems to be interested, and a picture emerges of a cancer research industry caught in a desperate paradox: it can only justify its existence by not curing cancer.Disinterest soon turns to open warfare as Simmons and Gavin’s work is sabotaged. A truly compelling story, this fast-paced scientific thriller blends superb dialogue with thought-provoking ideas.