Joel Shulkin, MD,
is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and United States Air Force
veteran with a master’s in public health. Having been lucky enough to be
mentored by the legendary Michael Palmer, his short stories have
appeared in various print and online journals, and he has won several
national and local writing awards for fiction and poetry. He lives in
Florida with his wife and twin daughters.
Shulkin's new medical thriller is Adverse Effects.
At CrimeReads he tagged seven medical thrillers set outside the emergency room, including:
Gravity by Tess GerritsenRead about another entry on the list.
While most know Gerritsen for her Rizzoli & Isles series, she wrote a number of terrifying standalone medical thrillers. Harvest is my favorite, but to finish off this list, I chose Gravity, which takes readers far beyond the ER to the final frontier. Again, cheating a little as there are a few ER scenes in the beginning, but they’re really just the appetizer before the main course. When an experiment aboard a space station goes wrong, a physician researcher must stop an outbreak of mutated cells before all the astronauts aboard the station die. Gerritsen’s research on NASA is impressive, and the medical suspense boosts this novel out of the stratosphere.
--Marshal Zeringue
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