A screaming snowman plummets from the top floor of Cleveland Mercy Hospital—a decaying relic built before the first pandemic—and disappears into the snow drifts below. By the time his thawed corpse is discovered the following spring, a body count of incompetents, frauds, and crooks who call this chamber of horrors home, has snowballed. Could these "disappearances" have anything to do with the bogus—and disastrous—spine operation performed on local hero Nick Glass, a former ballplayer? Or the wrongful termination of Nick's fiancé, Dr. Julie Toffoli, an idealistic intern not afraid to speak truth to power? It's up to celebrity Homicide cop, Artemas Sikorski, working his careercapping case, to find out. Hysterically funny, troubling, and finally moving, YOU MIGHT FEEL A LITTLE PRICK answers the question we've all been asked by someone in a white coat: Just what is your level of pain?

Peter Desmarais relates his experiences as a kid with a chemical laboratory in his bedroom where he would operate on frogs, his hilarious experiences as a hospital Houseman, and his first few years of general practice. A patient is set alight in her bed, Peter is trapped in the toilet with a patient and a colleague is defibrillated! We follow his story from childhood dreams to medical practice tribulations!Author Peter Desmarais graduated M.B, Ch.B at the University of Pretoria South Africa in 1971. He relates the funny side of his experiences at medical school, his internship at Addington hospital Durban and the first few years of his life as a general practitioner.He is presently an ENT surgeon in private practice in Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa. He is married with six grown up children two of whom are stepchildren.

There is a small tea stall in the corner of the street. A haggard woman asks to boil tea. There are several small tables outside the tea stall, and a young man with fine eyes is greeting guests quickly.

The complete four-book series of Antique Instincts in one volume. ... They say some things can’t wait. One of them is destiny. The other is murder. Sonia is meant to be normal. She isn’t. She has a rare magic – she can sort out the temporal order of anything. But while that might be incredible, it can’t catch his eye. Rushford Halsey is one of the most powerful vampires in the city. A resolute man who heads up Vampire Pharmaceuticals, he shouldn’t be interested in her. But there’s a problem. He’s her one-true vampire. Destiny has dictated they will be together. So what does Rushford do? Go and marry someone else. He seemingly has no interest in Sonia – other than to keep her as far from his murky world as possible. When a dangerous drug hits the streets and she’s dragged into the police investigation to stop it, that all ends, and once more they are thrown together. But destiny can be a fickle thing. It will give you one chance at happiness. Lose it or ignore it, and you will do so at your peril.