Third Subgenre

Third Subgenre

Thriller – Medical

Like the Romance-Paranormal, thriller-medical is very popular among TV shows, Dr. House being a perfect example. Medical is a subgenre of thriller. And like any thriller, it usually incorporate fast-paced action, suspense, details-oriented and likeable characters. It can included dark and violent situations, sometimes extremely vivid and realist. The medical subgenre specificity is mostly the setting of the thriller. Also the languages can vary. Thrillers are often full of details, but with the medical subgenre language can be technic and specialist to the medical field. To my knowledge, medical thriller are also realistic, they are at least plausible.

Examples:

 

 

Coma by Robin Cook

Almost any books by Robin Cook could fit in this genre. In fact, coma is often considered to be the first one of the genre. When numerous patients inexplicitly go into comas after minor operations, third year medical student Susan Wheeler try to find an answer to those cases. It becomes clear that somebody is behind for those comas, but how and why a person would do that. Susan will find out.

 

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Like Robin Cook, Michael Crichton is also a physician turned writer. Better known for Jurassic Park, Crichton wrote and created the television show ER as well. In this book. Crichton mixed medical thriller with science fiction when a satellite accidently falls back on earth and people around the crash site started to die from a mysterious sickness. The government was already warmed that the sterilization procedures was not adequate for space contamination, and now it’s almost too late.

 

Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen

After the death of her husband, Dr. Claire Elliot moved with her son in a small town in Maine. Once winter settled in, the teenagers of the village started to act strangely, even violently. Upon investigating. Claire discovered this is not the first time that the village’s teenagers began to act on their violent impulsions, it happened exactly 50 years ago. Claire is convinced to find a biologic reason beyond it. Maybe the lake has something to do with it? Or maybe people are involved as well?