Bellevue

Michael "Mitt" Fuller begins his surgical residency at Bellevue, the almost three-hundred-year-old New York hospital where four earlier generations of Fullers trained. He arrives with the family name, the nerves of any first-year, and a sensitivity to things other people cannot perceive.

Patients under his care begin dying of causes no one can explain. As the deaths mount and the demands of residency grind on, Mitt is plagued by visions — a girl in a blood-stained dress, screaming somewhere down a corridor. His attention keeps returning to the abandoned Bellevue Psychopathic Hospital building, still standing a few doors north of the modern high-rise.

Robin Cook opens in 1949 with a lobotomy performed on an eight-year-old girl, and the standalone that follows is as much about American psychiatry's documented cruelties as it is about a young doctor's unraveling. Medical thriller with a supernatural edge.