Medical Fiction- Navtej Kohli
If you’re fond of reading medical fiction, Navtej Kohli enlists some really good reads for the season.
1. Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg
A woman’s intense belief that her husband will recover from a coma, and her ways of keeping in touch with him - and with the beauty of life - as she visits, works, and waits, comprise this emotionally satisfying story by the author of Talk Before Sleep. “Steeped in grace, with and compassion…so compelling you wish it would never end”. — Barbara Lazear
2. Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
Frank Pierce, a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, is being destroyed by the act of saving people. Addicted to the thrill, Frank is nevertheless drowning in five year’s worth of grief and guilt. His wife has left him, he’s drinking on the job, and just a month ago he “helped to kill” an 18-year-old asthmatic girl. Now she’s become the waking nightmare of al his failures. In a narrative that moves with the fierce energy of an ambulance run, listeners follow Frank through two days and nights of excitement and dread.
3. Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying out of control - and in space.
4. The World I Made for Her by Thomas Moran
James Blatchley breathes and eats through tubes, slipping in and out of a coma. Nuala is the Irish immigrant nurse who coaxes him toward survival. The odd synergy of their relationship serves as both his link to reality and his inspiration to fantasy, in this hypnotic story by the author of The Man in the Box.
5. Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish diseases and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for the National Book Award. ” Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare is describes”.
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