BELLEVUE
BELLEVUE . Robin Cook. Putnam's; 2024. Mitt Fuller starts his surgical residency at the famous -- or infamous -- Bellevue Hospital in New York. He is especially intrigued by the place because several of his ancestors were doctors there, some of whom were quite celebrated. Bellevue is now a full-service hospital center, practically a city into itself, but each day Mitt passes the abandoned original psychiatric institution that has stood there empty for years but, oddly. never been turned into anything else. During the first few days of his residency, he sees strange things -- forceps that seem to jump out of someone's hands -- and is astonished that his patients, who seem fine at first, start dying, even though it's very much against the odds. Then he sees the bizarre apparition of a little girl with a strange instrument poking out of her eye ... Is Mitt going crazy, or is Bellevue haunted by the dead patients of the past, and could it be true that his medical ancestors were...