Nursing Learning Community: Reading Room

Chief resident Noah Rothauser suspects Dr. William Mason, an egotistical, world-class surgeon, of an error during an operation and of tampering with the patient's record afterward. But Mason is quick to blame anesthesiologist, Dr. Ava London.

At Gillette Trauma Hospital, patients of Dr. Runyon have been dying -- all victims of a pulmonary embolus, a fatal blood clot. Journalist David Airoway has been investigating -- until he ends up a patient.

At the end of World War II, the lives of four people -- a young American nurse, her dying English patient, a handless American thief, and an Indian soldier in the British army -- intertwine in a deserted Italian villa.

A stranger's life hangs in the balance. What if you had the power to decide if she lives or dies?

Claire Boehning must dust off her long-used medical expertise when her husban'd biotech venture crashes, taking everything they own with it.

On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency cesarean section on a mother she believes has died of stroke. But what if -- as Sibyl's assistant later charges -- the patient wasn't already dead?

"Nurses" captures all the crisis, chaos, and craziness at the front lines of a big-city hospital and women's clinic. Funny, heart-wrenching, and always entertaining.

A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse.