Showing results for "Patiënt" in Literary Fiction

The fourteenth Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses, and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters are a handful and Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with.... For Ania, meeting Clara Casey is a miracle: she had never intended to leave her beloved Poland, but after the love of her life has turned sour, her world seems rather empty. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart?

Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan’s great writers - author of the stories Rashomon and In a Bamboo Grove, most famously - who lived through Japan’s turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just 34 in 1927. These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen. Inspired and informed by Akutagawa’s stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales.

She was his perfect wife, until she went missing. Alexandra Southwood has vanished. Her husband, Marc, is beside himself. It isn't long before the police are searching for a body. But Alexandra is alive - trapped, far away from her husband and young daughters. Desperate, Marc will stop at nothing to find the woman he loves. Even if it means discovering that he never really knew her at all. Because Alexandra is no ordinary missing person - but then neither is she quite a perfect wife....

El prestigioso neurocirujano David Evans se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Para el Dr. Evans se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás cuando descubre que el paciente que debe morir para que su hija pueda vivir no es otro que el presidente de Los Estados Unidos.

Eine Ärztin unter Anklage – ein KI-System unter Verdacht: »Der 1. Patient« ist der 4. Justiz-Krimi der Bestseller-Autoren Florian Schwiecker und Michael Tsokos, die für exklusive Insider-Einblicke in die Medizin der Zukunft, das Justizsystem und die Rechtsmedizin sorgen. Der neue Fall des Berliner Strafverteidigers Rocco Eberhardt sorgt für hitzige Debatten in den Medien: Eine Routine-Operation der Chefärztin Dr. Sasha Müller endet für den Patienten tödlich. Nach der Obduktion kommt Rechtsmediziner Justus Jarmer zu dem eindeutigen Schluss, dass ein Behandlungsfehler vorliegt.

Medical student Seth Levine faces escalating stress and gallows humor as he struggles with the collapse of his romantic relationships and all preconceived notions of what it means to be a doctor. It doesn’t take long before he realizes not getting frazzled is the least of his problems. Didn’t Get Frazzled captures with distressing accuracy the gauntlet idealistic college grads must face to secure an MD and, against the odds, come out of it a better human being.

Der britische Buchhändlerliebling: Eine Liebeserklärung an das einfache Leben, an menschliche Nähe und an die Schönheit der Natur. Als Polly Morland das Haus ihrer Mutter ausräumt, findet sie eine alte Ausgabe von John Bergers Buch "A Fortunate Man", das von einem Landarzt erzählt, der in einem abgelegenen Tal arbeitete. Berührt von seiner Geschichte begibt sich Morland auf die Reise, die Frau kennenzulernen, die heute seine Praxis betreibt.

"The Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Doctor Percy Trevelyan brings Holmes an unusual problem. Having been a brilliant student but a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has found himself a participant in an unusual business arrangement.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.