Resultados para "Lifer" en Médica

Los Angeles, 1920s: Socialite Mirielle West's days are crowded with shopping, luncheons, and prepping for the myriad glittering parties she attends with her actor husband, Charlie. She's been too busy to even notice the small patch of pale skin on the back of her hand. Other than an occasional overindulgence in gin and champagne, which helps to numb the pain of recent tragedy, Mirielle is the picture of health. But her doctor insists on more tests, and Mirielle reluctantly agrees. The diagnosis - leprosy - is devastating and unthinkable.

On the night he dies, August Sweeney is just pulling himself out of the weeds in the restaurant that was supposed to be his comeback. An immense man of immense appetites, August worked his way up from the bowels of a greasy spoon in Queens to international culinary stardom, and his fall, when it came, left a crater visible from space. When Dr. Maya Zhu, a guarded, intense autopsist, is summoned to investigate, she discovers she must operate under strict conditions Sweeney himself dictated before he died.

Dr. Nicklaus Hart has lost his moral compass. As an orthopedic surgeon in a busy trauma practice, the cares of the world overshadow what Nick knows is true about himself. With his life unraveling, he falls into his old patterns of stress relief but knows they are a poisonous cure. Nick is shaken from his moral slumber when a massive earthquake strikes Eastern Turkey, and he makes the snap decision to respond.

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

Ainda muito jovens, Thomas e Liz se conheceram e viveram uma paixão intensa que não acabou nada bem. Agora, oito anos depois, eles se encontram de novo, nos corredores do Chicago Mercy, onde o sexy Dr. Thomas Hardy será chefe da recém formada Dra. Liz Spencer. O que nenhum dos dois têm ideia é que há muito mais entre eles do que uma paixão mal resolvida que ainda faz faíscas voarem. Um segredo muito bem guardado por oito anos está prestes a vir à tona. Algo que mudará a vida de todos drasticamente.

What happens when life depends on a machine? A dialysis unit is a high-stakes cauldron of conflicts and ethical dilemmas. Chance at Life provides a portal into the lives of dialysis unit 'regulars', both patients and staff. Together they navigate life's impossible choices and certain end. A machine malfunction claims one patient's life, another patient buys a black market kidney, and another patient withdraws from dialysis entirely, inviting her dialysis friends to her 'good-bye party'.

This collection brings all five series of this tense, fast-paced drama set in an ambulance control for the first time.

Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree and little else in the way of worldly possessions, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice. At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.

During a freak car crash when she was twelve years old, Mia Germaine died alongside her father. A heart transplant from a young murder victim brought her back to life, but not without a price. Twenty years later, chilling nightmares about that unresolved homicide begin to haunt Mia's dreams. Against her will, she forms a complicated connection to the victim—the girl murdered the night of Mia’s accident—due to a scientific phenomenon called “organ memory.

Nurse Anne Silva is having "the week from hell". First, her boss pulled the budget out from under the CAPMED holiday fund: cue disappointed sick kids with nothing to distract them from being sick. And now Anne’s car is sporting a banged-up bumper, courtesy of an anonymous driver who fled the scene. That is until the alluring blonde shows up as Anne’s newest colleague...

From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious virus before it becomes an epidemic. The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just...

From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious virus before it becomes an epidemic. The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just...

After his mother dies, Tim Daniels must graduate from veterinarian school, find a job, pay-off his loans, keep his girlfriend content, and try to keep his head…all while removing a designer purse from a dog’s stomach. Just another Tuesday morning….

When America is hit with a pandemic - soon finding out it was a viral and biochemical attack from terrorists - the population is both shocked and relieved to quickly have a vaccine on hand to save them. Untested and rushed to market, the people don’t care. In droves they line up, hoping to avoid the deadly virus. Too late, they discover there is something much worse than the virus unleashed on the United States; something so hideous and terrifying, it will make the virus look like a bad case of the flu.

The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards...

Now on audio for the first time! Groundhog Day meets Grey’s Anatomy in this heartfelt novella with a hint of magic from the internationally bestselling author of The Room on Rue Amélie, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, and The Sweetness of Forgetting, in which a woman with only a short time to...

A female immigrant psychiatrist from Muslim and Jewish background will take you on a journey to learn more about mental health, immigration, and cultures. In a heartwarming love story that will make you dance between East and West, you'll recognize what the media does not say about psychiatric illnesses, historical dilemmas, America's cultural problems, religions, and wars.

From Neil Abramson, the acclaimed author of Unsaid, comes a riveting novel that explores the complex connection between humans and animals. Veterinarian Samantha Lewis and her team are dedicated to providing a sanctuary for unwanted, abused, and abandoned dogs in New York City. But every day it...

Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it. For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and three spoiled children. Her son, Ivan, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," impulsive Irina, who lives life on a whim, is now reluctantly pregnant and hitched to a man who is twice her age.

The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating...