Medical Humor

Paying for tuition is hard, and a college student has to be creative about how they make their money. Sometimes even the most simple job turns into so much more... Check out this fun collection with four steamy tales of work study jobs that turn out to be the education of a lifetime, including: The Babysitter's Ride Home — When the boss she's crushing on offers her a ride home, this older man is about to get a ride of his own. The Babysitter's First Menage — Being caught sleeping with the boss is bad, but having his wife join in turns a boring afternoon into a steamy adventure. The ...

“Good for what ails you,” this quick, feel-good mystery will chase away the gloom and doom and challenge your ‘whodunit’ skills. ER Head Nurse Laurel Benson and Police Detective Cade Resnick have a sure cure for boredom! On the last Game Day of Aggie football, a patient comes into the ER wearing a Captain Courageous costume. Laurel recognizes the patient as Dr. Arnold Fisk, CEO of Texas General Hospital’s most vocal competitor. He’s also married to Cade’s superior, the College Station Assistant Chief of Police. His first visit of the day is of a ‘personal’ nature; the ...

From award-winning author Emma Jackson comes a gripping new mystery in the beloved Cherrystone Creek series. In LOST BODY UNKNOWN, local funeral director and part-time sleuth Paige Reese faces her toughest case yet when a gruesome crime scene is discovered minus one crucial element: the body. As Paige races to unravel the mystery, she finds herself in the crosshairs of The Titans, a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang hell-bent on revenge. With her loyal companions, the eccentric Auntie Roo and gentle giant Nott, by her side, Paige must navigate a treacherous web of small-town secrets and ...

Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alongside his sister, Tanya, in their battered Biloxi, Mississippi, neighborhood where only half the houses made it through Katrina. One stiflingly hot August afternoon, as Cameron sits waiting for Tanya during their daily run to the Biz-E-Bee convenience store, he suddenly and inexplicably rises up and out of his wheelchair.

Samaritans Medical Center, Washington, DC, can't seem to look after itself and its increasingly desperate doctors, let alone its patients. The chairman of the board, billionaire arms dealer and part-time philanthropist David Soper, decides that it's time to kill or cure. Business school alumnus and Las Vegas hotel genius Max Green is the perfect man for the job. A man of vision. A man with a mission. A man who knows that wealth care is smarter than health care. He's going to make Samaritans great again.

In this rollicking, dark comedy about a failing hospital in Mars, Nebraska, Dr. Wave, a kind and well-meaning outsider, leaps into a year-long fight against an overwhelming bureaucracy upheld by a corrupt administrator who refuses to budge. Wave juggles some of the worst (and silliest) medical cases of his career and struggles to manage a hostile coterie of MDs with a host of defects, the least of which is their ubiquitous lack of Medical Board certifications, while doing his best to stay professional in the face of converging forces that seem hell-bent on undoing his easy solutions.

To Senior Medical Examiner Dr. Beckett Campbell, the Hippocratic Oath has always been more of a suggestion than a guiding principle.... Beckett is no ordinary forensic pathologist, which is why he's not surprised when a container with expertly removed organs arrives on his desk. What is alarming, however, is the note that accompanies it...the note that suggests this is only the beginning, that more are on their way.

Charles O’Brien, Irish bard and giant: The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies’ corpses by the inch. Where is a man as unique as The Giant to hide his bones when he is yet alive?

This is the story of how A.I. Theoretically Rachel survives in San Francisco and Oakland, helped by other half-A.I. half-humans including Doreen Thing, Vivian Oblivion, and Dead Leslie. They are the Neutrino Girls, anarchistic hackers and squatters empowered by artificial intelligence. Vicious psychiatrist Doctor Cube created these A.I. hybrids in a San Francisco mental hospital. Some of the Neutrino Girls escape and are swallowed by the streets, prostitution, poverty, America's failed Afghanistan War, and the wildness of rogue A.I. Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based American journalist,...

Dr. Steven J. Fisher is a young and brilliant biochemist (special subject: the female orgasm). He's invented a Viagra-like pill for women - now he just needs his results to be perfect. Annie is an orgasmically-challenged arts student (special subject: Victorian semicolons) and for some reason his miracle treatment isn't working. As scientist and subject bond over Bunsen Burner-lit meals, Dr. Fisher is surprised to find his feelings taking a most unscientifc turn...

Jorge Comensal’s The Mutations is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón’s cancer through his body and through the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed in its wake. Paying homage to forebears such as Sontag, Didion, and Tolstoy, and filled with a rough-hewn poetry of regret, rage, and, finally, resignation, The Mutations offers up a profound and funny cross section of modern Mexico, as well as a bold treatment of an unspeakable yet universal reality.

Nurses Kit Carson and Tonto get temporary gigs across town at WellMart's Emergency Department, where they try to save the life of a well-renowned and well-endowed entertainer named Stormy Wether. Saturday Night is the second episode in Kit Carson's Knife and Gun Club. Lurid drama and trauma in America's new Wild West!

Cameroon, 1929. As colonial powers fight for influence in Africa, French military surgeon Eugène Jamot is dispatched to Cameroon to lead the fight against sleeping sickness there. But despite his humanitarian intentions, the worst comes to pass: seven hundred local villagers are left blind as a result of medical malpractice by a doctor under Jamot’s watch.

Driven by money, power and success, Gabriel has worked ruthlessly to get to the very top of the banking game. He's not going to let the inconvenience of a terminal brain tumour get in his way. But the tumour has other ideas. As it grows, it appears to be doing strange things to Gabriel's personality. Whether he likes it or not, he seems to be becoming less selfish, less mercenary, less unlikeable. Once he could dismiss the rest of humanity as irrelevant. Now he's not so sure.

A summer with terminal patients wasn’t what Sonia had in mind when she signed up for her school’s nursing internship program. With no previous exposure to death or dying, Sonia joins the ragtag team at Tender Hands Hospice (Your Best Last Resort) and becomes the center of attention to the oddball nurses who work in end-of-life care.

WARNING: Highly prone to spontaneous fits of delirium, irrational logic, and violent, unpredictable mood swings. This individual has been sober, swollen, and hungry for the past nine months, so proceed with caution and handle with care. Anything said during the course of labor and delivery should not be taken seriously. Side effects may last up to 18 years. Please consult your physician should castration occur. And never forget, this is all your fault.

Andy Thompson is back with another laugh-out-loud collection of stories that reveal the essential ingredient that paramedics and ambulance technicians call on as a coping mechanism - the ability to conjure humor from situations most others would find too stressful to even raise a smile.

In Romance: Quickies (The Twins' Encounter - 5), nurses Allie and Ashley charm the pants off (literally) a gorgeous ER doctor. But will their naughty hookup jeopardize all their careers? Seven friends living in New York City. One unusual competition. Who can have the most intimate encounters in a month? Ten thousand dollars is on the line... Quickies are bite-sized steamy stories that follow a group of women living in New York City who compete to see who can have the most casual hookups in a month. Which woman will sleep with the most men to win the bet? Will any of them fall in love with ...

His enemies left her for dead. Now she’s his. Damien needs to blood-bond a shifter to retain control of his wolf and his pack. He would blood-bond Tess in a second, except his enemies have destroyed her ability to shift. And they're not done with her. . . Tess is determined to navigate this new world without her shifter abilities. She won't let anyone get in her way, least of all Damien, the alpha who's determined to make her his. . . even if it kills him. ◆◆◆ Fight Hard. Love Harder. Damien’s Dilemma is the first book in a wolf shifter romance series full of romance, intrigue, ...

Peter "The Plum" Lum is a 49-year-old ex-star NRL player, living with his son and girlfriend in Cronulla. He's living a pretty cruisey life until one day he suffers an epileptic fit and discovers that he has a brain disorder as a result of the thousand-odd head knocks he took on the footy field in his 20-year career. According to his neurologist, Plum has to make some changes - right now - or it's dementia, or even death.