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The explosive new thriller from New York Timesbestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook.Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolinas Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death.Devastated by Carls condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced theres more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixonincluding her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Penderto hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice.

Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallout from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man.

Charlatans is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Noah Rothauser is the new super chief resident at the state-of-the-art Boston Memorial Hospital. Taking on such a prestigious job is a dream come true, but the pressures of the role become all too clear when a seemingly routine operation ends in disaster. With potential foul play suspected it falls to Noah to investigate what happened. Questioning those involved uncovers bitter feuds within the team when the egotistical Dr. William Mason is quick to blame staff anesthesiologist Dr. Ava London for the tragic outcome. However Dr. London, along with the nursing staff, point the finger at the surgeon. When two more unexpected deaths occur, Noah is forced to look closer at the impressively competent, charming, yet mysterious Dr. London. With his own job and integrity coming into jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe - before any more lives are lost . . .

En unas prestigiosas clínicas , los pacientes recién operados comienzan a morir inexplicablemente... Volvemos a encontarnos con los forenses neoyorquinos Jack y Laurie, que por fin se han casado. Un accidente menor llevara a Jack a ingresar en una flamante clinica , pero Laurie descubre que alli , y en otras clinicas del mismo dueño , Angels Healthcare, se estan produciendo una serie de miseriosas muertes por infecciones bacterianas. Lo que Laurie no sabe es que Angels Healthcare esta a punto de saliar a la bolsa y su principal inversionista , un capo de la mafia local , hara lo que pueda para evitar la mala publicidad. El tiempo corre. Jack esta a punto de ser operado y Laurie teme por su vida...

Una magnética intriga en torno a un tema cada vez más actual: el turismo médico.Jennifer, una inteligente estudiante de Medicina, recibe consternada la noticia de que su querida abuela ha fallecido tras una operacion en Nueva Delhi. Insatisfecha con las explicaciones del hospital indio, decide viajar al subcontinente e investigar personalmente el suceso. Por suerte, contara con la ayuda de los conocidos forenses Laurie Montgomery y Jack Stapleton, que pronto descubriran una conspiracion de proporciones globales.Una novela que trata un tema de gran actualidad: el turismo medico, que cada año desplaza a mas gente por todo el mundo en busca de intervenciones quirurgicas economicas y rapidas. Una historia muy bien documentada en todos sus aspectos medicos y cientifcos, y con una trama ingeniosamente elaborada dinamica y con buenas dosis de suspense de la mano de Robin Cook, que logra una vivida ambientacion de la India, de sus olores, sus habitantes, sus calles