We Band of Angels was wonderful, but The Healers War by the same author about Vietnam was not as good. It was OK, but had a slant that I did not agree with. Maybe Vietnam is still too touchy a subject? The M*A*S*H books are funny and also have a political commentary theme.
Echo Heron's books are also very fun to read. Particia Cornwell is a bit depressing, and the characters get whiny after a while. Robin Cook, great of course...all of those Coma type stories. Michael Crichton stories are always a good bet...he thought up the E.R. TV show!
Anne Perry has several series of Victorian era books...one concerns a nurse just back from the Crimea named Hester who marries a detective named Monk. She helps solve mysteries in between working towards hospital and health care reforms! These books are all great...and the nursing issues are well researched.
Echo Heron's awesome - as well as her non-fiction's she's also written about half a dozen stand alone novels with strong nurse protagonists.
Gewn Hunter has a series (about three books) with a nurse who solves hospital-based mysteries and also has an evolving romance.
Tess Gerritsen has a group of stand alone medical drama novels (think Robin Cook) - I really preferred her earlier work to her later releases.
Michael Palmer's name is really familiar, but I can't for the life of me remember anything specific (it's 6AM brain!) - I know I've bought several of his books, so they must be good, though.
While I was trolling through amazon, looking specifically for another writer of nurse-protagonist mysteries (cannot for the life of me remember any other details, but perhaps her name will come to me in my sleep) I found Suzanne Proulx. Haven't read anything, but the first line of "Declared Dead" grabbed me - "The number three cardiac catheter monitor had nearly killed somebody, for the third time in as many weeks, and I'd had enough."
You might also like to read "My sister's keeper" by Jodie Picoult - no nurses, but she writes beautifully and it's ethically complex.
i enjoyed "toxin" by michael palmer. it starts with a farmer selling a sick cow to a factory then, while processing the cow they drop the cow on the floor but pick it up from the floor , then packaged it and sent to the local supermarket and a little girl dies from e. coli.
I've just finished reading The Protocal (April Christofferson) re: human cloning. Other books: Mutant by Perter Clement, and Terminal Mercy by Ed Stewart. I also really like Patterson, Cook, and Cornwell
Specializes in ER (new), Respitory/Med Surg floor.
i have chicken soup for the nurses soul. they are great stories based on actual nurse experiences so not fiction but still very entertaining. however i can only get through just about 3 stories before i start crying too much. i use it as motivation that i am in the right field when it gets rough. i even gave one to my preceptor because it's such a great book that reminds us what nursing is about or why we went into it.
Try Devil's Waltz by Jonathan Kellerman. It's about Munchausen-by-proxy.
I remember going to the library at the end of the term, first time I'd had time to read anything that wasn't for school. When I checked out the books, I realized that they all had a medical background. Fiction, non-fiction, didn't matter. Continuing Education, I guess.
I really preferred her earlier work to her later releases.
Michael Palmer's name is really familiar, but I can't for the life of me remember anything specific (it's 6AM brain!) - I know I've bought several of his books, so they must be good, though..
Michael Palmer is great. He's written books like 'The Patient' and 'Miracle Cure', the former having a nurse practitioner as one of the main characters. Good medical thrillers.
Ahhhhhhhh.......not fiction but definitely a GREAT read!!! Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul. I have read mine probably a dozen times and each time I do...I laugh, cry, chuckle, and become inspired all over again!! I generally re-read it when things are just really tough at work. I am reminded of why I became a nurse. Enjoy your break!
Liann
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We Band of Angels was wonderful, but The Healers War by the same author about Vietnam was not as good. It was OK, but had a slant that I did not agree with. Maybe Vietnam is still too touchy a subject? The M*A*S*H books are funny and also have a political commentary theme.
Echo Heron's books are also very fun to read. Particia Cornwell is a bit depressing, and the characters get whiny after a while. Robin Cook, great of course...all of those Coma type stories. Michael Crichton stories are always a good bet...he thought up the E.R. TV show!
Anne Perry has several series of Victorian era books...one concerns a nurse just back from the Crimea named Hester who marries a detective named Monk. She helps solve mysteries in between working towards hospital and health care reforms! These books are all great...and the nursing issues are well researched.
I will try to think of some more...
Can you tell that I read a lot? :chuckle