Medical Humor

Inspired by author Lance Anderson's own years working in a medical examiner's office and as a paranormal investigator, Life in the Morgue is not a typical murder mystery, romance, or even crime drama. The novel is focused on the people who work in the morgue, offering listeners stories that are at times funny, at times sad, and always intriguing.

His daughter’s medical emergency will lead to love… When his teenage daughter winds up in the Emergency Room, Ed is worried sick, but not too worried to notice how beautiful the E.R. doctor is. He’s never believed in love at first sight, but even after he butts heads with the stubborn doctor, he can’t get her out of his mind. Joy is content with her single life, but there’s something about her patient’s father that makes her long for more. When her friend schemes to get her out on a date with Ed, she realizes that despite their apparent differences, she and the grumpy contractor...

Uno dei più famosi racconti cechoviani in cui si narra una storia ancora attualissima: uno squallido ospedale di provincia, i matti trattati come bestie, uno strano filosofo paranoico e un dottore in crisi con la professione e con il mondo intero. L'epilogo tragi-comico è in puro stile cechoviano.

Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical interns working the hospital night shifts must care for – and keep alive – the influx of patients, while frightened and uncertain about what the night will throw at them. The Night Interns beautifully conjures the alien space of the hospital wards and corridors through the viewpoint of one of the interns, as he comes to terms with the bodily reality of the patients and the bizarre instruments of healing.

Fictional and funny ways as to why asthma occurs.

This is a story about a major metropolitan hospital on July 1, where mass confusion reigns with all the outpatients needing to be re-registered; new interns, residents, and volunteers start, and while a comedy it is meant for mature audiences only.

She wants to get him to the Big Game. He wants to get her to the altar! Robbie Mason was once the NFL’s golden boy. One of the most successful placekickers in league history, he’s now staring down retirement. If he can just get his battered body through another season and finally get his chance at a Super Bowl ring… Dr. Violet Grange was raised in a family of football stars. She loves the game, but she doesn’t love the inflated egos that come with the men who play. The physical therapist has dedicated her life to helping female athletes stay on top of their game. Until her father ...

Eines Nachts fällt der Hypochonder Herr Wunderlin in den Schlaf und in seine Innenwelt. Intropolis ist eine skurrile Reise in den Mikrokosmos, ins Reich der Kotzmopolypen, wo in Hinterzimmern der Leber, Einzeller Glücksspiele betreiben und großbusige Monaden Striptease tanzen. Herr Wunderlin begegnet mexikanischen Mikroben, antibiotikaabhängigen Streptokokken und der kriminellen Halbwelt der Darmflora. Was, wenn winzige Terroristen versuchen den Laden zu übernehmen und augenlose Einzeller gerade seinen Umsturz planen?

For a simple janitor, Forrest Franklin is a pretty smart guy. He has just landed himself a new job…at a woman's health clinic! This dirty-minded fella figures he’ll just keep his eyes open and maybe catch a glimpse of a cute young lady in a johnnie once in a while. That sure would keep him whistling while he works! Well, as sweet luck would have it, this hard-working pervert is about to get way more than he bargained for!

Years after breaking Patty’s heart, her boyfriend’s back—and he wants to hire her as his daughter’s bodyguard! Cop-turned-private-eye Patty sees her ex-boyfriend’s face on every clay pigeon she shoots for target practice. Now the handsome guy who dumped her in high school returns to their small town with an urgent request: to pose as a nanny while guarding his little girl. Alec adores his daughter, and is thrilled to be the new director of laboratories at Safe Harbor Medical Center. But he’s never forgotten the girl he left behind. Now she’s living in his condo, and he just ...

Mark bekommt bei der Corona-Impfung einen falschen Impfstoff verpasst, der Affen-DNA in sein Erbgut einschleust. Er verwandelt sich langsam in einen Affen. Wie kommt er damit zurecht? Am Ende geht es um nicht weniger als die Unsterblichkeit.

Líos amorosos, heridos de bala, apuñalados, perturbados agresivos, alguna que otra sobredosis, accidentes de tráfico… ¿Por qué alguien en su sano juicio hipotecaría sus fines de semana para quedarse a trabajar en una Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos y por un sueldo mísero? Alguien a quien se le ha ido un poco la olla, ¿no? ¿O más bien alguien que ha encontrado su vocación salvando vidas? Como Charlie, un enfermero recién licenciado cuya única manera de gestionar el estrés y la depresión laboral es haciendo memes.

Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to see: a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion. But for first day junior doctors, their initiation into this world - the 'Killing Season' - is about to begin. A whistle-blowing despatch from the frontlines of hospital life, Jed Mercurio's Bodies takes us on a nerve-jangling journey through one junior doctor's loss of innocence and his desperate, dangerous attempts to right his - and his colleagues' - wrongs.

The Doctor Needs a Date! Anthony slid into the limo and turned to say hello. “Is this some kind of joke?” he spat. There sat none other than Olivia Spencer, his old girlfriend, his ex-fiancé. The name he’d erased from his thoughts just seconds ago. Dr. Anthony DeAngelo holds patients’ hearts in his hands, but is unwilling to take time from his career to find love for himself. Since the day his fiancé left him at the altar, his career has been his focus. Secretly he longs for a wife and family. Someone to love him. Teacher Olivia Spencer is forced to moonlight as an escort to help ...

A heartwarming novel about the surprise of second chances in the autumn of your life. Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window - four floors up. Is old age finally catching up with him?

Ella macht sich nichts vor. Sie ist schwer krank und ihr Mann John zu senil, um zu wissen, welchen Tag wir heute haben. Ob es eine gute Idee ist, sich mit über achtzig in ein Wohnmobil zu setzen und über die Route 66 nach Disneyland zu türmen? Natürlich nicht. Doch soll es das tatsächlich schon gewesen sein mit dem Leben? Ella ist die Wächterin der Erinnerungen und der Straßenkarten. Und sie werden losfahren - auch wenn sie nicht weiß, ob die Reise sie ans Ziel oder vielleicht doch ans Vergessen führt.

Nach der Geburt ihres vierten Kindes stolpert Frauenärztin Doktor Chaos sogleich von einem Ereignis ins nächste: Die neue Kollegin entpuppt sich als knallharte Konkurrentin und Ärzte verrückt machende Blondine. Mit Schwangerschaftsspeck auf den Hüften und Babykotze im Still-Dekolleté ertappt Josephine diensthabende Gynäkologen beim Sex am Arbeitsplatz, muss sich um die Schwangerschaft einer ungeliebten Chirurgin kümmern und riskiert durch den Streit mit einer Privatpatientin ihre Klinik-Karriere.

The trouble with identical twins… "That's not exactly what I had in mind," he said, loosening his grip but still holding onto her. "I want a kiss that will make me wish we were eighteen and parked out at Lookout Point again.” He leaned in and whispered in her ear. "You remember the kind we shared in high school…" He's back. The one guy she never wanted to see again. Her high school indiscretion, Brent Moulton, has returned to Tyler, Texas. Only Jennifer Riley knows the truth about that night so long ago when she switched places with her twin sister, Julie. …they look alike. Fifteen ...

Un paziente si reca da un medico di sua fiducia il quale consiglia una dieta atipica, non rientrante negli schemi canonici della dietologia moderna.

Anyone who has ever felt or looked unconventional or enjoys weird stories about awkward people will want to listen to Loving Every Awkward Step. A humorous memoir about clubfoot, life choices, and surviving being different, Houston-Voss tells about growing up different in a world that wanted the same. She explores the feelings of what is thought of as normal and the challenges of fitting into societal expectations when hiding a disability.