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Any intresting Medical Novel you know of!
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Posted about 5 years ago I have read of "A CASE OF NEED" by Micheal Crichton, A medical Thiller from the creator of ER. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago Read the House of God. I can't remember the author's name, but the Laws of the House of God, like if you don't take a temperature you can't find a fever, are still spoken with reverence by nurses and doctors alike. It's a comedy based on the true life story of a medical resident. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago Am gonna look for it in the book shop!. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago I love Toxin by Robin Cook |
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| Posted about 5 years ago Also, this isn't a medical novel per se, but I am enjoying reading my Human Anatomy and Physiology book for my class....:) |
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| Posted about 5 years ago This is not a novel, but I really love the book by Tracy Kidder about Paul Farmer - the doctor who went to Haiti...Mountains Beyond Mountains. Anyone else read that one? |
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| Posted about 5 years ago I am a BIG FAN of Robin Cook and Joshua Spanogle. Both write fanttastic medical mystery novels |
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| Posted about 5 years ago I also loved House of God. It reminds me a bit of MASH, where you had a few people in a hospital that was sorely mismanged and as a result people suffered. But some how it was very light hearted. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago theala said: I read House of God by Samuel Shem when it first came out and recently re-read it. Even though it was set during the early 70's, it has a very contemporary feel to it -- it's like nothing has changed in 35 years! There is a sequel called Mount Misery, which I am now reading and which I think is even better. I like all of Michael Palmer's medical thrillers, even though they can be kind of far-fetched sometimes. A few years ago there was a series of medical thriller/detective novels written by Ellen Dreyer, who was an emergency room nurse before she turned to writing. I remember enjoying them tremendously, but unfortunately can't remember the names of any of them. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago For my Health Occupations class we are currently reading "Bed number 10" by Sue Baier and Mary Zimmeth Schomaker, its an amazing book I think, I love it. Its about Sue Baier and her case of Guillain-Barre syndrome and everything she went through, and all the ethical issues thats she went through during her very loonnnggg stay at the hospital, like the doctors not commnicating with her, and nurses not paying attention to her, or doing the peroper things for her. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago House of God was required reading for me when I graduated nursing school. One of my mentors bought the book for me and to this day, fresh in my head are "GOMERS go to ground" & "buff the charts". |
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| Posted about 5 years ago Dr Keith Ablow has a series of mystery novels out all based on psychiatric eccentricities |
