Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical

Deadly Benefits    by Ryn Pitts
Price: $2.99 USD. 120660 words. Language: English. Published on May 6, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

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When a patient dies unexpectedly in a Fargo hospital, the medical center goes into a defensive tailspin. Heli Harri, a savvy pharmacist and headstrong Finn, is accused of a fatal error while senior physician Dr. Lavelle condemns another lapse in hospital safety. But a tangle of evidence points to murder, revealing the best and worst of those to whom we entrust our health and our lives.
One-Billionth Our Size    by bgBaldwin
Price: $1.99 USD. 76500 words. Language: English. Published on April 18, 2013. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical.

When a deadly influenza virus threatens all of humankind, can a virologist who encounters many obstacles on his path to a cure be successful, and if so, at what price?
Contagious    by bgBaldwin
Price: $1.99 USD. 57720 words. Language: English. Published on March 10, 2013. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical.

With the new influenza virus outbreak classified as a pandemic, and hundreds of thousands already dead, will a vaccine be available in time to save the rest of mankind?
Belladentro (versione Light)    by Quelli di ZEd
Price: Free! 68160 words. Language: Italian. Published on November 1, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical.

Pubblicazione in due lingue / This publication is in two languages:: Italiano: versione originale English: experimental translation
Senses    by F. Walter Thomas
Price: $1.99 USD. 60160 words. Language: English. Published on October 16, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas.

A man known as Lucky suddenly becomes very unlucky as he begins to lose one sense after another, eventually cutting him off from any contact with the outside world. This is the story of how Lucky and his wife and two children cope with his increasing alienation and wrestle with the decision to mercifully end his life or continue to hope for a medical breakthrough that will restore his senses.
Conditional Voluntary    by Geoffrey Feller
Price: $2.99 USD. 55210 words. Language: English. Published on October 5, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical.

Patrick Coyne feels like he’s safe from the drug authorities as a patient in a mental hospital during the late 1980s. He even calms down an angry young girl and thinks his love life is about to improve. Will legally prescribed drugs end his paranoia? And why won’t the staff let him have a girlfriend?
Henrietta's Castle    by Alexandra Shaw
Price: Free! 124380 words. Language: English. Published on September 11, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
He had been waiting. “Well, hello there!” a friendly voice greeted her. “Umm... Hi. Do I know you?” Juliette asked. She was in a dark room. She was alone. Charles likes Juliette. They become friends, and the nightmare begins. Charles decides to fight everyone, even her beloved aunt Henrietta, to claim Juliette as his. This is a unique story dealing with eating disorders.
Frank's Last Call    by Spence Kennedy
Price: $2.99 USD. 104400 words. Language: English. Published on July 4, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical.

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Spence Kennedy starts work at a busy seaside ambulance station, and under the guidance of Frank, a paramedic coming up to retirement, works his way through a succession of incidents, comic and tragic. Based on the real-life blog ‘Siren Voices’, 'Frank’s Last Call' puts the reader in the driving seat of an ambulance, and offers an uncompromising tour of duty around a contemporary UK town.
Dis/inhibition    by Nancy E. Shaffer
Price: $2.99 USD. 182080 words. Language: English. Published on June 14, 2012. Fiction » Gay & lesbian fiction » Lesbian.

Science meets attitude. Control freaks. Hot heads. Timid artists. Impulsive kids. Inhibition—or the lack of it—makes neuroscience graduate student Valerie Running Deer, her friends, and colleagues their own worst enemies. Dis/inhibition explores the complications of self-control both outside and inside the scientific laboratory.
Father    by Linda Ann Rentschler
Price: $2.99 USD. 77280 words. Language: English. Published on June 13, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Medical.

From the moment Cole Montgomery stepped foot on the Hoffmans’ farm, he felt his energy soar. But when he shook his future father-in-law’s hand, Jack Hoffman’s life penetrated Cole’s consciousness with a series of images and intense feelings. As Jack becomes ill with cancer, Cole leaves his family law firm and moves to his in-laws farm where he seeks to find an alternative cure.