"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--An improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....

The bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers a "short, beautiful, and ultimately life-affirming novel" about the path to self-acceptance (Booklist). From the prize-winning "master of atmosphere" comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on the threshold of renewal (The Boston Globe). Living on a tiny island that is surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin...

"In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange, intimate experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived chronic coughing spell-something the medical establishment will later use against her, as she struggles through chronic pain and faintingspells that coincide with her menstrual cycle. With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine-from...

"A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly-perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of The Altruists. The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community who spends her free time helping resettle refugees. Their...

"Attorney Michael Clayton is a 'fixer' the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he's handed a crisis even he may not be able to fix. The firm's top litigator in a $3-billion case has gone from advocate to whistleblower. And the more Michael tries to undo the damage, the more he's up against forces that put corporate survival over human life --including Michael's."--Publisher.

A memoir of the last five years experiences of an average guy who ran into a "few" problems that were not of his making. These experiences of life couldn't really be true in this day and age and in this republic, could they? Do lawyers get cut slack? What if you did it? Or, I did it? Who stands up for the average guy? What if the average guy is somebody's target? Franz Kafka understood. He had a handle on it. And yet, we trust our systems and our...

After years spent paying his dues, talented physician Craig Bowman enjoys a successful practice providing "concierge" medicine for patrons wealthy enough to afford this exclusive service. But when a hypocondriac patient dies and a malpractice suit is launched, the good doctor's life is sent into a tailspin. New York medical examiner Jack Stapleton suggests the body be exhumed, and then things get really interesting. Startling evidence comes to light--and...

La réparation d'une atteinte à l'intégrité physique est le plus souvent ressentie comme injuste et aléatoire. Injuste car cette atteinte est, dans notre droit, traitée différemment selon son origine : pathologique ou accidentelle, avec ou sans responsabilité d'un tiers, indemnisable ou non selon le régime juridique dans lequel — par hasard — elle s'inscrit. Aléatoire selon la qualité des experts qui auront à connaître de son estimation,...

"The shocking story of New York's most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down in a landmark and precedent-setting case in the fight against opiod addiction"--

Undercover Epicenter Nurse blows the lid off the COVID-19 pandemic. What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it? Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in...