Títulos en Médica

“When the treatment is worse than the disease, its maker better pay for all the lives destroyed.” Dr. Mark Lin hates greedy drug companies, along with herbal supplements that can sometimes do more harm than good. Two medical mysteries force him to confront both.

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.

Straordinario, memorabile romanzo, Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo è la storia della ribellione contro un ordine malefico e implacabile capace di creare...

El doctor Benjamín comete un error en el quirófano, y enfrenta cargos por negligencia médica. Abrumado por la frustración, ocasiona un accidente automovilístico en el que fallece su propia esposa. Es acusado de asesinato y le retiran la custodia de su hija. Ahogado en depresión, encuentra...

Den perfekta stormen är på väg. Neurokirurgen har planerat allt in i minsta detalj. Ingenting får lämnas åt slumpen - hans kontrollbehov tillåter det inte. Han är en produkt av sitt förflutna. Resultatet av en uppväxt fylld med skam och mindervärdeskomplex. Hans mamma formade hans kvinnoförakt - nu driver det honom mot det slutgiltiga målet: Ingreppet med stort I. Helenas liv är på väg att helt gå upp i sömmarna. Det efterlängtade barnet blev slutet på hennes äktenskap.

En ung, känslig student från en sömnig småstad i Irak blir vittne till hur hans pappa blir förödmjukad av tanklösa amerikanska soldater under en bröllopsfest. Han blir stum av aggressivitet och ger sig så småningom iväg till Bagdad för att ansluta sig till en terroristcell. Besatt av tanken på att hämnas får han ett självmordsuppdrag. Med ett virus i kroppen ska han bege sig till London för att smitta ner västvärldens befolkning.

Gdy sprawiedliwość jest bezsilna, pozostaje tylko zemsta.. Przed siedzibą ONZ w Nowym Jorku omyłkowo zostaje zastrzelony starszy mężczyzna. Prawnik Tom Byrne jedzie z polecenia ONZ do Londynu, aby porozumieć się z córką zmarłego, Rebeką i uniknąć skandalu. Okazuje się, że jej ojciec nie był zwykłym turystą, ale członkiem żydowskiej organizacji wymierzającej sprawiedliwość faszystowskim zbrodniarzom wojennym. Wynikiem jej działania są setki niewyjaśnionych zgonów na całym świecie.

Bodhi Patel is the brand new Lead Epidemiologist for the world's top epidemic specialists, Global Health Agency, but there's no time to settle in: his new boss, Helen Taylor, deploys GHA to contain a mysterious new killer virus spreading from Peru into Brazil. On the ground, they learn that the virus is loose in a region controlled by a heavily armed drug warlord, and the race against time to discover a cure just got a whole lot tougher. Meanwhile, Bodhi finds himself with a newly reshuffled team still smarting from the changes, including his ex.

Uno dei più famosi racconti cechoviani in cui si narra una storia ancora attualissima: uno squallido ospedale di provincia, i matti trattati come bestie, uno strano filosofo paranoico e un dottore in crisi con la professione e con il mondo intero. L'epilogo tragi-comico è in puro stile cechoviano.

A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void. FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.

Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon - the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field. But can she survive a single mistake?

Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. When a top-secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark, Team Ghost is called in to face their deadliest enemy yet - a variant strain of Ebola that turns men into monsters.

A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident - and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt. Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also THE go-to facility in assisted dying. For a cut, they make impatient heirs happy. Nameless must concoct a scheme just as cunning.

Edmund Harkins has gone missing. Few in Bampton liked him, knowing him to be a wife-beater and distinctly unsavory character, so when some hungry pigs unearth his corpse from a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief. As bailiff, it is Hugh de Singleton’s duty to bring Edmund’s killer to justice. But where is he to start investigating when almost everyone in the village has a motive? And when everyone is pleased to see the scoundrel dead, who knows how far they might go to help someone get away with murder?

Keeping watch over the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host and crucifix are stored between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is considered a privilege. So it is shocking when it is discovered that Odo, the priest’s clerk, has abandoned his post. But as the hours pass and Odo is not found, Hugh de Singleton is called upon. It is Hugh that finds the dried blood before the altar, and fear grows for the missing man … Will Hugh be called upon to investigate another murder, or will the man be found hale and hearty? But if so, where has the blood come from?

Scholar Richard Sabyn, a particularly obnoxious fellow, was believed to have been struck by lightning. However, Master Wycliffe believes otherwise and calls upon Sir Hugh de Singleton for help. Sir Hugh shares Wycliffe’s suspicions and launches a private investigation, learning that it might indeed be possible to make it look as though a man has died from a lightning strike. But who would go to all that effort, and why?

Gabriel is a young god overseeing seven American emergency rooms, and he's terrible at his job. He stages dramatic rescues for social media clout while his mortal staff develop PTSD at three times the normal rate. The Supreme Court of gods loves him—because suffering generates virtue, and Gabriel generates spectacular suffering. But Chrona, the Court's administrative assistant, (Mariline) has been watching for centuries.

It's been more than ten years since Maddy Locke left Spinifex, the small outback town where she gave birth to her daughter, Bridget. Now she's back to prove she's got what it takes to run the medical centre and face the memories of that challenging time in her life. But everything's changed – the old pub is gone, her new colleagues aren't pleased to see her, and it's drier and hotter than ever.

Tal como los alquimistas medievales se obsesionaron con la piedra filosofal, un sacamuelas sevillano, que llega hasta el virreinato peruano huyendo de la Inquisición, se afana en la búsqueda del gusano de los dientes que taladra las muelas y anida en las encías, precipitando la corrupción del cuerpo y flagelando a los cristianos con una espina del dolor de la Pasión, porque el imperio español de los siglos XVI y XVII era también el imperio del dolor.

Dark Place to Hide: Booktrack Edition is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience! About to break the news to his wife, Diane, that he’s infertile, criminology expert Harper Penn gets a call to say she’s been rushed to hospital with a miscarriage. Five days later, when Diane fails to return from the village shop, police think she must have taken off with a secret lover, but Harper is convinced the online messages are not from her.