Medical Fiction/Memoirs
Explore gripping medical fiction and memoirs with our curated list of books. Discover heart-wrenching, inspiring, and thrilling stories from doctors, patients, and healthcare heroes. Perfect for fans of medical dramas and real-life health journeys.
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The Eyes and the Smiles
by Rebecca Yeasted-gill, M.d.
As a pediatric intern, Dr. Rose Gorman takes care of Hunter Wilson, a six-month old boy suffering from a severe mitochondrial disorder. She cares deeply for Hunter and his family and is present at his bedside through the most difficult times. The experiences change Rose, and she remains close friends with Hunter's parents, Jonathan and Samantha. Rose continues her work as a pediatrician and cares for 18-year-old Hope Shields. When Hope learns she is pregnant before high school graduation, she turns to Rose for guidance. Hope's circumstances along with Jonathan and Samantha's journey to find meaning in times of struggle leave Rose wondering how she can best be a source of support. Rose will have to believe in the power of family and friendship and the wonder that can be found in the eyes and the smiles.
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Standard of Care
by David Kerns
A tale of ethical crisis and redemption, Standard of Care is one doctor's tumultuous journey as a senior executive in America's largest and most predatory hospital corporation. Weary of the tedium and diminishing returns of twenty-five years of private practice, Dr. Daniel Fazen becomes the new senior medical executive, the guardian of quality patient care, at Walnut Creek Memorial, his long-cherished community hospital. Without warning, eleven months later, Memorial is acquired by the Olympia Healthcare Corporation, the largest and, he knows, the most ruthless for-profit hospital conglomerate in America. At age fifty-five, with a taste for the good life and years of tuition ahead for his kids, Dan ponders a six figure incentive. With reservations-and rationalizations-he stays with Olympia. And so begins a downhill debacle...
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The Year of the Intern
by Robin Cook
The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that in the coming hours he will have to make life-or-death decisions regarding patients, assist contemptuous surgeons in the operating room, deal with nurses who may know more than he does, cope with worried relatives and friends of the injured and ill, and pretend at all times to be what he has not yet become--a fully qualified doctor. This book is about what happens to a young intern as he goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor, and threatens to destroy him as a human being--