Books tagged: medical drama

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Some Kind of Normal    by Heidi Willis
Price: $7.99 USD. 86650 words. Published by NorLightsPress  on January 18, 2010. .

How far would you go to save the life of someone you love? If faith is all her daughter needs to be cured, Babs is sure the church and her family have more than enough. But when 12-year-old Ashley develops a rare and deadly allergy to insulin--the only medicine that can keep her alive--Babs turns to the Internet and science instead of friends and God to find the cure the doctors say isn't there.
Surgical Heights    by Paul Hardy
Price: $3.99 USD. 79460 words. Published on July 1, 2010. .

This novel follows Dr. Jim Smythe through the most tumultuous six months of his career thus far. At the top of his game, he has doubts about his own health. He finds himself under escalating pressure from the Medical Licensing Authority and his own hospital administration over a series of complaints. The situation reaches a breaking point in the emergency room where everything is on the line.
Wrongful Death: The AIDS Trial    by Stephen Davis
Price: Free! 89400 words. Published on October 3, 2010. .

"WRONGFUL DEATH: The AIDS Trial" is the true story of how government lies and incompetence, gross medical malpractice, and unbridled greed by a drug company cost 300,000 American lives in just ten years. "It reads like a cross between a John Grisham thriller and an informative scientific treatise on AIDS." - D.D. Steele, Attorney, California. "A legitimate page-turner." - Dr. Harvey Bialy, Mexico
Are You Positive?    by Stephen Davis
Price: Free! 116400 words. Published on October 3, 2010. .

Ripped from the headlines of today's news, "Are You Positive?" is a fictitious courtroom drama in the style of John Grisham. 26-year-old Tyree Johnson stands accused of first degree murder in Greenville, South Carolina. But his murder weapon is not a gun or a knife; it's HIV. “Everyone diagnosed HIV-Positive absolutely must read this book. The rest of us should too.” - Dr. Goddard, CO.
Remedy (A story of Aligare)    by Heidi C. Vlach
Price: $3.99 USD. 94800 words. Published on February 14, 2011. .

Peregrine, a deaf and aging avian, wishes he could set Tillian free. He needs his keen-eared adoptive daughter to relay the world to him. But when plague strikes a neighbouring village, there is no time for a gradual lifestyle change. Peregrine must fly for supplies on weakened wings and Tillian must nurse critically ill strangers -- separating the two for the first time in Tillian's life.
Finding Frances    by Janice M. Van Dyck 
Price: $5.99 USD. 75440 words. Published on February 24, 2011. .

Finding Frances is a powerful exploration of medical ethics and family loyalties in the 21st century. Fiction based on true events. "How does each person want to live? How would they want to die? Van Dyck brings these questions smoothly to the surface without ever pushing an agenda or setting up arguments." (The Washington Times)
Quarantine on the Black Nile    by Michael Angel
Price: $0.99 USD. 18640 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on June 4, 2011. .

Eco-tourist Jonah Brooks stumbles into a nightmare as he’s snared in an East African quarantine zone. Black Nile hemorrhagic virus rampages through the Malindi rain forest like a feral beast. It burns through the human population with a terrifying kill rate; and everyone in the medical group sent to study it lies dead in their camp. It’s not quite the tour package that Jonah signed up for.
Grace Under Pressure: Five Tension-Filled Tales    by Michael Angel
Price: $2.99 USD. 26100 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on June 6, 2011. .

Hemingway said guts was ‘grace under pressure’. Expect ‘grace’ as we meet a supermarket worker who finds a note reading: PLEZE HELP US WE R KIDNAPED. Follow a tourist’s efforts to get free of a quarantine zone ravaged by a deadly virus. And visit the men’s bathroom in the Vatican, where an unlucky hit man tries desperately to escape. 5 short stories await you in 'Grace Under Pressure'.
A Pain in the Toenails    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: Free! 1840 words. Published by Olo Books on July 15, 2011. .

Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards. One patient taught me about ulcerative colitis...and a few other things. You can also find this essay in my book, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room.
No Air    by Melissa Yi
Price: $1.99 USD. 18410 words. Published by Olo Books on August 7, 2011. .

Dr. Valerie Chia strides into St. Joseph's emergency room expecting the usual Montreal Monday morning chaos. But when the other day doctor goes AWOL and a patients crashes, Val's up the creek, in a handbasket, even before she lets resident Dr. Hope Sze try the emergency airway... Debut episode (half-hour pilot script) of a medical radio drama featuring Dr. Hope Sze.