Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Médica

El prestigioso neurocirujano David Evans se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Para el Dr. Evans se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás cuando descubre que el paciente que debe morir para que su hija pueda vivir no es otro que el presidente de Los Estados Unidos. Con su maestría habitual en la literatura de intriga, Juan Gómez-Jurado atrapa al oyente irremediablemente.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Los djos del centinela es una novela que narra el enfrentamiento del protagonista, el detective Juan Luis Ángeles, con la realidad que le toca vivir, tras ser dado de baja médica después de un accidente de tráfico. Durante este tiempo de inactividad comienza a experimentar una inquietante y misteriosa comunicación proveniente de los cuerpos sin vida. Tratando de librarse de ella, acaba por encontrarse envuelto en un juego macabro que necesita de su participación para desarrollarse.

Ellie et Louise sont deux sœurs fusionnelles, l'une sportive et solitaire, l'autre coquette et ultra sociable. Leur vie bascule le jour où Louise apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer rare des ovaires. Démunie, Ellie ne sait comment trouver sa place aux côtés de sa petite sœur. Pourtant, elles vont mener, avec leurs parents, un combat ensemble contre cette maladie.

À la pointe de la technologie, le Boston Memorial Hospital est réputé pour l'excellence et la fiabilité de ses praticiens. Jusqu'à un incident fatal : le décès d'un patient lors d'une banale intervention. Tout juste nommé chef des internes de chirurgie, Noah Rothauser est déterminé à prendre ses responsabilités pour préserver la réputation de son service. Mais avant, il lui faut faire toute la lumière sur ce drame : simple négligence médicale, mauvaise coordination entre le chirurgien et l'anesthésiste ou geste malveillant ?

Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness.

Cecilia es todo lo contrario de lo que uno espera de una pediatra. Es una mujer sin espíritu maternal, tiene poco aprecio a los niños y su paciencia con las madres y los padres que los acompañan es prácticamente nula. La medicina fue un camino natural para ella: siguió, sin meditarlo, los pasos de su padre, una eminencia. Curiosamente, y a pesar de su frialdad con los pacientes, al principio su consulta es exitosa.

Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life.

Three young men from different backgrounds have graduated from medical schools and have become surgical fellows at a leading teaching hospital in Boston. They learn to become surgeons, to communicate with patients and families, and to be observed and appraised by their peers and professors on daily rounds. And each month, each attends the meeting of the Mortality Conference, known to all as the Death Committee, which examines every patient loss for possible human error, in order to prevent it from happening again.

Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship’s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It displays the qualities which have put O’Brian far ahead of any of his competitors.

Eric can’t stop thinking about just how close he came to losing her—and he’s done playing this game, done watching Joe risk her life and he’s going to do whatever it takes to get the stubborn woman off the truck even if that means losing her forever. There was only one problem with that plan. Joe loved what she did and had absolutely no plans to quit. She doesn’t care what Eric says, she’s not going anywhere and the sooner he realized that, the sooner she could go back to pretending that everything was fine.

Milan, Italy, today. It is the most serious crisis that the world has ever faced. Bewildered, young and old, believers and atheists are asking all the same distressing questions: What will they do now that the greatest dream of humanity has turned into a nightmare? What will happen when the countdown clock winds to zero?

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a dangerous disease which decimates the crew.

David Hunter, médecin et anthropologue médico-légal, se rend dans les îles Hébrides, au large de l'Écosse, pour examiner un cadavre qui laisse les locaux perplexes. Un corps entièrement calciné, à l'exception des pieds et d'une main, vient d'être retrouvé dans une ferme abandonnée. Certainement pas un cas de combustion spontanée, comme on voudrait le faire croire. Hunter doit faire parler le cadavre avant que le meurtrier, qui rôde encore sur l'île coupée du monde par une tempête, ne s'en prenne à lui.

Lorenzo Sartori è uno psicoterapeuta di circa trent'anni, razionale ma inquieto, ansioso di imparare, di crescere, di migliorarsi. È per questo che quando i suoi primi pazienti gli sbattono la porta in faccia, inizia a chiedersi quale sia il problema. Il problema, capirà poi, era in parte suo, aveva molti luoghi oscuri interni da illuminare.

Patrick è convinto di essere morto e di non conoscere la donna con cui è sposato da vent'anni. Emma è in stato vegetativo da quando era bambina, eppure non presenta alcun danno cerebrale. Jennifer sente voci nella testa che le intimano di uccidersi. Amy è scossa da convulsioni alimentate da un trauma insondabile. Non c'è limite alla profondità dell'abisso in cui la nostra mente può precipitare. Sette capitoli, sette pazienti, sette storie.

Liberta di pensiero è libertà di movimento. La faccia immersa nella neve, come ovatta soffice che che gli toglie il fiato. È la vertigine dell'apnea. Pochi attimi prima Lorenzo stava sciando insieme a Johanna, la sua fidanzata. Un momento spensierato come tanti, ormai irrimediabilmente ricacciato indietro, in un passato lontano. Poi la corsa in ospedale in elicottero, il coma farmacologico e un'operazione di nove ore alla colonna vertebrale. Dai capezzoli in giù la perdita completa di sensibilità e movimenti. D'ora in avanti Lorenzo e il suo corpo vivranno da separati in casa.

Brussels, April 1915. A beautiful young woman finds herself on the run from the enemy. Also being pursued is Ned Scott, a British army major who has been badly injured. The pair find themselves at a hospital run by the famous Edith Cavell, who agrees to treat the major while offering them both refuge and a false identity - she names the young girl Anna.

Lui è Luigi, un quarantenne equilibrato, sentimentale, sereno e innamorato della moglie incinta. La casualità di un banale esame medico lo pone di fronte a una tremenda rivelazione: ha un tumore al rene e bisogna intervenire con urgenza. Così, con il ricovero, la vita di Luigi cambia drasticamente e si reduce a un'unica semplice realtà: l'ospedale, il reparto, i compagni di stanza, infermiere e caposala, i medici e, fra questi, su tutti, la mitica presenza del professor Zamagna, genio della chirurgia urologica, che vive solo per operare e che a Luigi appare un salvatore.

Together with his gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn, the two make a powerful, although improbable, mystery-solving duo. Among the dead collected in The Big Easy floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina are three nude female bodies, all caught in the same brush tangle, none with water in their lungs. Broussard knows in his ample gut that this was not an act of God, and not the work of Katrina. But Broussard has perhaps the biggest challenge of his colorful career.