Another Five Patients

by Melissa Crickard

Another Five Patients tells the story of a team of house officers in a modern hospital, and the five patients they must save. When one of the resident physicians, Dr. Kip Paiva, becomes a critically ill patient herself, the team is forever changed. This suspenseful story of medical fiction traces foreign medical graduate Dr. Kip Paiva, an emigrant and survivor of human trafficking in post-apartheid South Africa. Her refuge from a Zulu militant captor comes to an end, as his brutal violence has finally tracked her across the ocean. While her past catches up to her, Dr. Paiva also becomes the scapegoat of a malpractice suit. Frightened for her and her son’s lives, Dr. Paiva begins a journey fueled by bottomless resiliency and a mother’s love. Her story intertwines through five others, all riveting, and all taking place in the busy Spectrum General Hospital in New York. Debut author Melissa Crickard uses this microcosm to illustrate larger aspects of modern medicine. Another Five Patients combines international intrigue and hospital politics with individual human stories involving hospital staff, patients, and their families. The result is a captivating, at times satirical, experience that reminds us that, whether doctor, mother, or child, we are all people, with flaws and emotions in a world of uncertainty.

392 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2019

Reviews

[Melissa Franckowiak · Rating 5 out of 5]

You'll never look at your doctor in the same way again. A gripping ride through today's hospital.

[Terry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exciting, suspenseful and riveting medical thriller. A well written page turner, characters with emotional depth and a variety of locales keep the reader immersed and engaged.
Highly recommend!

[Dwee Andrea Nugraha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get inside what medicine is all about these days. This book is as complex as it is entertaining. I loved it.

[Anis Mahat · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked another Five Patients as Melissa Crickard's debut. It was suspenseful and a page turner.

[Nancy Marandi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Five Patients is a charged up medical drama that brings to light many of today's issues with women. Women make up a large part of today's medical landscape so it seems timely and important. Great stories help too!

[Bappa Bhakta · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a pretty incredible read. Powerful ending but I won't spoil it here.

[Nafisa Tabassum · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Five Patients delivers beautiful literary prose in places and other times action that moves these pages!

[Dibik Tip Top · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Five Patients captures all perspectives of a hosptital from the doctors to the executives to the janitor. It felt like a living breathing character of its own.

[Linh Ngo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book in one sitting cover to cover. There is so much information here conveyed in a way that's interesting and easy to chew on. Loved Another Five Patients.

[Md.Sifatul Islam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Five Patients is the debut novel by Melissa Crickard, a physician. Rick Bryant is a tough doctor steamy and changes as the book goes on. The female characters as always these days kick some butt.

[Clyde Capillanes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't read an ending this good in forever. Stick with it. You won't be disappointed.

[Arieltama Wu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spoiler The reference to the passion of Christ in the climaxbof the book was powerful and suspseful as well as full literary. Awesome!

[Mansi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Melissa Crickard's debut Another Five Patients hits home. Anyone who's ever say in a hospital praying for a loved one will connect with there characters.

[Mitali Biswas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tour de force of how gorgeous and dysfunctional modern medicine can be all at once. Loved this story. Loved these characters.

[Rahul Baghora · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't say enough about Another Five Patients. It's suspenseful with thoughtful literary references. For example, Deanna waits with one shoe on for the jerk guy she's into to come back like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. Love tricks like this.

[Bikash Sagar · Rating 5 out of 5]

The novel takes us from NY to Africa and back full circle in a tear-jerking story of a mother's love. Deanna struggles with childlessness meantime at a different stages in her life while the men in the book seem to thwart their wishes.

[Hitashtandia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Women make up a large part of today's medical landscape so it seems timely and important. Great stories help too!

[Satyaprakash Das · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was not a typical thriller but it moved faster than some I've read. I would read more by Melissa Crickard.

[Aftab Hossain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kip is chased by a schizophrenic across continents where she's treated equally badly as a foreign resident and female doctor. Deanna's plight is a bit better, but she still deals with sexism that's all too present coming from people of status.

[Arpita · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's an interesting book to read. Thanks to the authors effort in collecting facts and informationfor this book.

[Raihan Sarkar · Rating 5 out of 5]

The cover confused me a bit because it takes place in a hospital mostly, but it came together at the ending.

[Moheb Billa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked Deanna's story. She kind of reminds me of Anna Karenina and even mentions playing chicken on train tracks. I wondered if she was suicidal at times. Would like a sequel with this character!

[Aravind Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was a bit confused with the multiple points of view at first but they are all labeled so once I realized that it all came together. Sometimes hard to switch when you really get into one character though.

[Golu Meena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sick of medical drama.read has a lots gift.its an interesting book to read.thanks to the author's effort in collecting facts and information for this book l.it was a very nice book

[Hasimu · Rating 4 out of 5]

These stories get a little complicated but overall it's a crazy good read.

[Madhumita Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crickard's debut if Another Five Patients brings the modern hospital to light from every angle. A winner.

[Mikele LcdRoma · Rating 5 out of 5]

The medical aspects of another Five Patients keep the pages turning. The ending will have you bawling.

[Ax Pachow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of all sorts of twists and turns, a twisted hospital administrator and a mentally ill Zulu militant.

[Said Harrak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice Good

[Surendra Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting books for knowledge. Thanks for author.