Títulos em Médico

A total of 0.63 seconds. That’s the amount of time Angela Brennan has to process the oncoming truck that destroys half of her family and irrevocably alters her life. Not long after the accident, death intervenes once more and snatches her remaining family member. Facing life alone, Angela returns to work as a cardiac surgeon, saving other people’s lives but questioning why hers was spared.

Was wäre, wenn...? Der Katastrophen-Thriller "Das Labor" bietet rasante, top-recherchierte Hochspannung rund um einen ruchlosen Plan, ein ehrgeiziges Pharma-Unternehmen und Viren-Manipulation. "Pass auf den Stick auf, Paul..." Nach ihrem Autounfall kann Lotte Gerlach, PR-Managerin der aufstrebenden Pharmafirma ClarTop, ihrem erschütterten Mann nicht mehr sagen, was es mit dem Stick auf sich hat. Nur eines erscheint Paul in den nächsten Tagen immer sicherer: Der Unfall seiner geliebten Lotte wurde gezielt herbeigeführt. Aber weshalb?

Kayla Covington has been called the most dangerous woman on Earth. Ten years after her experimental treatment failed to save her 12-year-old son, she’s on the brink of the world’s first human gene-editing trial. Her discovery, that unlocks the genetic code of the only immortal animal in the world, will reverse aging, save millions of people, and cure her ailing father, salvaging what’s left of her broken family.

Sie sind tödlich. Und sie sind außer Kontrolle. Als die Wissenschaftsjournalistin Nina Falkenberg ihren ehemaligen Mentor Anasias in Georgien besucht, gerät sie mitten in einen tödlichen Angriff auf ihn. Zuvor kann er Nina jedoch verraten, dass es ihm gelungen ist, ein Medikament gegen die gefährlichsten multiresistenten Keime der Welt zu finden. Musste er deswegen sterben? Zusammen mit dem Foodhunter Tom Morell, dessen Tochter an einem dieser Keime erkrankt ist, versucht Nina, die Forschungsergebnisse nachzuvollziehen.

London, 1914. Als drei junge Frauen ihre Ausbildung am Londoner Nightingale Hospital beginnen, geht für jede von ihnen ein Traum in Erfüllung. Doch für ihr persönliches Glück müssen sie Opfer bringen. Während die aus einfachsten Verhältnissen stammende Sadie alles daransetzt, ihre Herkunft zu verbergen, erfährt Sonnenschein Anna zum ersten Mal, was es heißt, nicht dazuzugehören. Und Kate, die wie ihre Brüder Medizin studieren will, muss gegen den erbitterten Widerstand ihres Vaters kämpfen.

An unexpected combination of experimental medication and meandering contemplation opens a door through which his disembodied soul wanders, temporarily taking residence where other souls have departed. Upon his return home each time, his terminal mystery illness wanes, while his transcendent abilities increase. Yet the price is steep, as the treatments wear off quickly and the agonizing symptoms return. For continuing survival, and to maintain his revived health and strength, he must continually find, cultivate, and court new terminal partners for his reluctant dance with death.

Where in the human brain lives the soul? Donald Ingram is an acclaimed neurosurgeon in search of the answers to these questions. The compelling exploration unfolds during the care for our seriously ill patients. This is a gripping story of mystery and medicine, romance and reality, belief and dilemma, as is life itself.

Nearly a century has passed since the world was devastated by pandemics and wars that wiped out over 90 percent of the Earth’s population. To assure the survival of mankind, the leaders of the rebuilt city of Haven are breeding a better human race: meaning those deemed too stupid, too weak, too poor - too “unfit” - are arrested and forcibly sterilized. 

Als der Schriftsteller Christopher Maddock tot aufgefunden wird, ist das Interesse der Yellow Press enorm. Sie beschuldigt den Londoner Psychotherapeuten John Burgess, einen Behandlungsfehler begangen zu haben, der zum Suizid des Schriftstellers führte. Doch dann wird John ein Tagebuch zugespielt, in dem Maddock seine Albträume notiert hat. Zusammen mit seiner Tochter Poppy beginnt John, die Träume zu deuten und findet Hinweise darauf, dass Maddocks Tod kein Suizid war.

The paradox of neurosurgery is that it demands perfection but is performed by the imperfect. Mistakes happen. Sometimes small, sometimes hidden, sometimes epic. Sorry is too small a word for the consequences. In The Surgeon’s Sin, Dr. Peter Jenson makes a journey toward redemption after just such a mistake. With his patient dying, his wife leaving, and his enemies denouncing his ability to practice, he begins the long journey by making a promise he shouldn’t keep to a woman he can’t refuse, and seeking the help he needs from a man he can’t trust.

No longer is there a waiting list. Not when women can be created in a lab for the express purpose of supplying readily available organs that can be harvested within hours. An international research corporation does the unthinkable. Taking stem cell research to new levels, they push the boundaries. An innocent young life hangs in the balance. Because of the simple fact of one child too many, Tansy faces certain death. A baby thrust into her arms, then a kind guard whisks her away from all she has ever known.

Struggling to shake a shocking hangover, Mitch Walker finds himself intervening in an armed robbery. The bizarre outcome of this encounter leads him down a dangerous path into the ruthless LA underworld, where his chances of survival are slim. If you love edge-of-your-seat tension, strap yourself in for Prior Violations.

A beautiful, pregnant woman.... A handsome sleep research scientist...who falls in love with her. An incredibly sophisticated computer...who talks with...the Unborn.

In a far-flung Tibetan village, prayer flags flap against whitewashed houses and a majestic monastery stretches to heaven. It's Shangri-La - the earthly paradise - until a stranger staggers out of the forest and collapses into a bloody, lifeless mass. He's the first victim of a crippling epidemic, but he's no ordinary man. Olen Grave, an American intelligence officer, heads directly into the hot zone to investigate. Posing as a journalist, he joins a Chinese research team led by a headstrong female virus hunter, Dr. Zhou Weilin.

Ogni colore è accecante, ogni odore nauseante, ogni rumore assordante. L'autismo imprigiona Stefano in un mondo di dati sensoriali esasperati, in cui le percezioni hanno un'intensità insostenibile. Per questo, nonostante sia un uomo adulto, solo una casa disegnata su misura e la vicinanza di Sara riescono a tracciare dei confini sicuri intorno a lui. Quando nella casa accanto arriva Viola, la musica di Mozart irrompe nella sua esistenza, portando con sé una nuova, inaudita sensualità.

Susan has been trying for a baby for years, and when a one-night stand makes her dream come true, she’ll do anything to ensure her husband doesn’t find out - including the unthinkable. Her secret is safe. For now. But as governments embark on a genetic arms race and children around the globe start experiencing a host of distressing symptoms, something truly horrendous is unleashed. Because those children have only one thing in common and people are starting to ask questions.

Dr. Strangeways meets the only woman he has ever really cared for, the hermit-like yet mysterious Angelina Frood, a striking young actress stalked by many demons. Tragedy strikes and the good doctor will do anything to solve the mystery. Following a chance encounter, he begins a correspondence with the famous Dr. Thorndyke, hoping that the medico-legal hybrid, a metaphorical centaur or merman, with a doctor's head and a lawyer's tail, can solve the case.

Trying to find some normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease seemingly caught during one of their evening cookouts.

Hundreds of years after a plague-induced apocalypse collapsed civilization back to iron and horsepower, the Hyllises have a genetic tendency to inherit “talents” such as telekinesis, teleportation, and telepathy. Though they aren’t powerful talents, they help the Hyllises diagnose and treat the underlying causes of many illnesses in their role as healers. In this book, their town of Clancy Vail is struck by the plague. In order to save thousands of lives, they must master and use the knowledge of epidemiology contained in their copies of the ancients’ books.

Mit existenzieller Tiefe und literarischer Lakonie erzählt Rainer Jund Geschichten, die uns alle betreffen. Weil sie uns zeigen, was wir sind: ein Wunder, verletzlich, ein Mensch. Eine aparte Kunsthistorikerin und ihr Mann auf Hochzeitsreise in Florenz. Zwischen dem größten Glück und der Katastrophe geht etwas verloren - die Selbstverständlichkeit des Lebens. Eine abrupte Gehirnblutung ändert für die Frau alles. Immer an ihrer Seite ein Klinik-Arzt, der in der Unfassbarkeit seines Alltags alles erlebt.