Medical Legal Thriller

Suspicious deaths. Broken bonds. Lives in peril. Redemption. Past-haunted emergency physician Zack Winston and case-hardened defense attorney Bridget Larsen battle a malicious malpractice suit. They uncover a medical conspiracy trading in drugs and murder. As they peel back layers of truth, past relationships and current alliances destabilize-threatening both their lives. A new bond ignites between them.

X-rays can kill cancer cells and save lives when administered properly. They can also kill people when things go wrong – a fact learned the hard way by retired FBI agent Cliff Knowles. Hired to unravel the cause of some mysterious overdoses, he gets too close to the truth and finds his own life on the line. Inspired by actual cases he worked as an FBI agent in Silicon Valley, the author weaves an absorbing tale of greed, technology, and terrorism in this high-tech legal thriller. After reading Fatal Dose you’ll never look at an X-ray machine the same way. Fatal Dose follows geocaching ...

The murder trial promises to be the most sensational to hit Chicago in years. And attorney Briley Lester knows it could make—or break— her career. The tabloid headlines are screaming that a long-mistreated society wife has killed her abusive husband—the scion of one of the city's wealthiest, most powerful, most dangerous families…. It seems like a hopeless, open-and-shut case, but Briley is becoming more and more convinced that her client truly is innocent. A tragic secret, almost too shocking to be believed, could be the key to proving it. But before she can bring the truth into ...

Childbirth is hard enough under even the best circumstances. But when baby Chase suffers a catastrophic brain injury at birth, his parents are drawn into a hellish whirlwind of medical and legal drama. Thaddeus Murfee, a resourceful, young lawyer, files a malpractice lawsuit on their behalf, but there’s one major problem: the hospital has forged medical records to cover up their mistake. When the case takes an unexpected twist, can Thad stay one step ahead?

What happens when doing the right thing could cost you everything? Kristi Jacobs is no stranger to life-and-death decisions. As an ER nurse, she’s seen the best and worst of humanity—but nothing could prepare her for the fallout from one impossible choice. When a terminally ill patient whispers a final request that crosses every legal line, Kristi answers... and it changes everything. Now thrust into a storm of legal scrutiny, media frenzy, and moral backlash, Kristi must navigate a system that punishes compassion and rewards silence. Torn between loyalty, ethics, and self-preservation,...

Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a devastating turn for the worse. Accompanied by the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, Yuki Castellano, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer probes deeper into the incidents. Could these cases just be appalling coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives? When someone close to the Women's Murder Club begins to exhibit the same frightening symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe.

"New and Re-edited Version" Frank Esposito has an incurable lung disease and needs a double lung transplant in a matter of months in order to survive. Arch City Transplant Center just opened in St. Louis, MO, and is challenging cultural and ethical paradigms in end-of-life decisions and in the organ transplant business. ACTC is run by brilliant doctors: Dr. Alex Finnegan and Dr. Ellen James-Calabrese who will push each other and society to create a business that will be worth billions of dollars but unbeknownst to Dr. Calabrese, Finnegan is using his colleagues, investors, and the poor as ...

It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, Attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths - and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff.

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag - cars, houses, women. That's why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children's medicine. While the official story is that a psycho tampered with bottles, the boy's mother believes something much more sinister is at work...and the trail leads right back to the pharmaceutical company.

When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored.

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San Francisco attorney Mike Webster does not lose medical-malpractice cases. But his stellar reputation and faith are put to the test when he agrees to defend Dr. Johanna Anderson, a brilliant and beautiful psychologist. Jo is accused of failing to prevent the death of Seth Bell, a senator's son she was treating with a revolutionary technology-assisted therapy called the Mind's Eye.

Dr. Thomas, an estate doctor in the lush plantations of Kerala, has spent years tending to workers, navigating corporate politics, and handling medical emergencies in remote corners of the countryside. But when a tragic accident shatters the peace, he finds himself at the center of a high-stakes legal battle—accused of a crime he didn’t commit. What begins as a routine day takes a devastating turn when a fatal incident on the highway spirals into a courtroom drama, pitting Thomas against a corrupt system, opportunistic rivals, and unseen forces determined to ruin him. As he fights to ...

A phone call from Belfast shatters Isobel McKenzie’s sleep and her peace. Her nephew, Jack, is safe but two of his friends from Queen’s University are not. Michael is dead and Charlene is in a coma. Isobel leaves for Belfast immediately. The PSNI suspect theft as the motive for the crime but, as Isobel and Jack investigate, they uncover other possible motives: an online bully, a drug connection and ultimately a web of organised crime. A cross-border drug task force is set up and, amidst politics and talk of corruption, the case becomes more and more complicated. Help arrives from London...

When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who works continuously in the service of others, he endured grueling years of training and is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time with each one just to keep his office door open, he now provides the kind of medical care he is trained to do.

Lou Welcome, from Palmer's bestselling Oath of Office, is back in this heart stopping medical thriller. A desperate phone call embroils Lou in scandal and murder involving Dr. Gary McHugh, known around the Capital as the "society doc." Lou has been supervising McHugh, formerly a black-out drinker, through his work with the Physician Wellness Office. McHugh has been very cavalier about his recovery, barely attending AA and refusing a sponsor. But Lou sees progress, and the two men are becoming friends.

When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts that it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run accident. But the autopsy soon tells a different story - an overdose of potassium killed him, and the attending physician, Eric Kensing, becomes the prime suspect in a high-profile homicide.

When the stakes are corporate—and personal—how far will one woman go to do what’s right? Kathleen Bishop is a powerhouse attorney turned CEO at MedVasive, a rising pharmaceutical giant with a miracle product on the brink of FDA approval. But success comes at a cost, and behind the glossy boardroom doors lie missing research pages, buried secrets, and a potentially dangerous energy supplement: Venergy. As Kathleen dives deeper into the science, scandals, and shadowy deals behind the drug, she’s forced to confront ethical dilemmas that could make—or destroy—her career. With a ...

Tropannos is a fast paced thriller about the cold hearted nature of for profit healthcare. Tropannos is also a novel about the need for real friendship, and it's also a warning about the dangers of allowing artificial intelligence to advance at the unregulated pace it is. Tropannos is also a thought provoking look at the way the government taxes us and the coming crisis where we can no longer achieve our inalienable right to posterity. And lastly, Tropannos is about a dark secret looming that might just be true, and if it was, what would it mean to our society.

Rotten luck doesn't discriminate between rich and poor. Lucasio "Lucky" Lafontaine is forced to take the train to Toronto in order to appear as a witness at a court hearing. Despite his nickname, the wealthy retired attorney finds himself in the proverbial wrong place at the wrong time. Everything goes downhill from that moment. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of retired Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers who has written more than 100 novels in his real name or using the pen names "Durward Garbage" or "Lance Majestik."