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Characterization labels used: doctor protagonist, physician, surgeon, organ transplant specialist, political leader, hypochondriac leader, addicted spouse, morally conflicted characters

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The Touch

F. Paul Wilson · 1986 · Adversary Cycle

A family doctor gains a healing touch that saves lives by day and steadily destroys his own life.

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Characterization labels: family doctor · caregiving protagonist · dedicated physician · sympathetic lead · naive protagonist · ambitious politician · power-hungry antagonist · enigmatic supporter · villainous bureaucrat · medical professional · homeless man · Vietnamese gardener · autistic child · loving wife · caring patient

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Distance: 0.1254

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The Asylum

Matt Dymerski · 2013

A doctor in an asylum follows patient accounts into a disturbing mystery that may reveal madness, truth, or both.

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Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · asylum worker · patients · mentor figure · unreliable protagonist · investigator

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Distance: 0.1261

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Machine

Elizabeth Bear · 2020 · White Space

A space-rescue doctor investigates a bizarre deep-space accident that threatens an interspecies hospital and its AIs.

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Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · rescue specialist · trauma doctor · chronic pain · disabled protagonist · queer protagonist · introspective protagonist · dedicated professional · competent caregiver · emotionally guarded

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Distance: 0.1344

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Hospital

Han Song · 2023 · Hospital

A business trip turns nightmarish when a mysterious illness traps one man inside a dystopian hospital system.

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Characterization labels: hapless protagonist · confused protagonist · middle-aged man · patient protagonist · bureaucratic functionaries · doctors · medical punk · flat characters · delirious protagonist · imaginative protagonist

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Distance: 0.1347

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Dr. Futurity

Philip K. Dick · 1976

A doctor stranded in a death-worshipping future must survive a society that outlawed healing and time itself.

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Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · healer · outsider protagonist · reluctant hero · male lead · underdeveloped characters · tribal leader · future rebels · euthanors

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Distance: 0.1376

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Hospital Station

James White · 1984 · Sector General

A giant space hospital must diagnose and heal wildly different alien patients, turning medical puzzles into diplomacy.

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Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · administrator · diagnostician · medical staff · alien doctors · pacifist · ambitious · rude protagonist · emotionally reserved · competent · career-focused · stubborn

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Distance: 0.1387

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A Case of Need

Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson · 2017

A Boston pathologist investigates when a doctor friend is jailed over a woman’s death after an alleged illegal abortion.

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Characterization labels: pathologist · obstetrician · doctor-detective · loyal friend · professional colleague · prominent physician · medical authority · upright doctor · scapegoat · imperfect protagonist · driven investigator · arrogant doctors · many characters

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Distance: 0.1432

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العنكبوت

Mostafa Mahmoud, مصطفى محمود

A doctor pursues a baffling patient and uncovers a speculative mystery about the soul, memory, and past lives.

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Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · older protagonist · curious investigator · medical expert · philosophical thinker · obsessive seeker · scientist-physician · mysterious patient · driven researcher · intellectual protagonist

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Distance: 0.1434

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Bílá nemoc

Karel Čapek

A doctor with a cure for a deadly epidemic demands peace, confronting a war-crazed ruler and a manipulated public.

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Characterization labels: idealistic doctor · war-mongering ruler · power-hungry leader · typified characters · moral absolutism · humanitarian protagonist

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Distance: 0.1482

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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · blind protagonist · amnesiac protagonist · confused protagonist · caretaker figure · mysterious doctor · doctor-therapist · possibly unreliable caregiver · morally ambiguous character · recovering patient

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Distance: 0.1488

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The Terminal Man

Michael Crichton · 2002

An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.

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Characterization labels: psychiatrist · surgeon · scientist · doctor · patient as test subject · violent protagonist · psychotic protagonist · paranoid protagonist · brilliant but unstable · arrogant experts · female doctor · beleaguered psychiatrist · paper-thin characters · limited character development

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Distance: 0.1491

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Alter

Jeremy Robinson · 2018

A humanitarian doctor survives an Amazon plane crash and is forced into a brutal, transformative fight to stay alive.

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Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · humanitarian · ordinary man · out of element · gradual psychological shift · devolution · primal self · descent into madness · emotionally complex

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Distance: 0.1509

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