Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, surgeon
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-07
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345447840
ISBN-13: 9780345447845

In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer’s methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon."The cops’ only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crim

Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: surgeon, last
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-02-16
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 031258749X
ISBN-13: 9780312587499

The New York Times bestselling author and master of medical suspense delivers another shocker of a thriller filled with insider details and a terrifying psychopath Four murders. Three accidents. Two suicides. One left… THE LAST SURGEON Michael Palmer’s latest novel pits a flawed doctor against a ruthless psychopath, who has made murder his art form. Dr. Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from PTSD—post traumatic stress disorder—spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly

Author: Alan E. Nourse
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: surgeon, star
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0554349035
ISBN-13: 9780554349039

The shuttle plane from the port of Philadelphia to Hospital Seattle had already gone when Dal Timgar arrived at the loading platform even though he had taken great pains to be at least thirty minutes early for the boarding.

Author: Ryerson George Sterling
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: surgeon, soldier
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $14.75
ISBN-10: 111332743X
ISBN-13: 9781113327437

Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: performance, notes, surgeon
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312427654
ISBN-13: 9780312427658

National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision. Atul Gawande, the New York Times bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey, narrated by "arguably the best nonfiction doctor-w

Author: Joan Cassell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: surgeon, woman
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-10-16
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0674004078
ISBN-13: 9780674004078

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man’s world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years. We follow these women through their grueling days: racing through corridors to make roun

Author: Joan Cassell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: surgeon, woman
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1998-06-15
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 067495467X
ISBN-13: 9780674954670

Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters the closely guarded surgeon’s arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man’s world. Cassell followed the daily lives of five women surgeons over the course of three years. The result is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, superiors--and even by herself.