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The Resolved Patient
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 18 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A patient file is closed while the patient is still in the bed.
Psychiatric liaison Nora Voss notices the error because she notices what systems try to hide. A man named Gideon Pike has been marked administratively resolved - not discharged, not transferred, not deceased. Resolved.
The hospital begins reacting to him as if he no longer exists.
Medication routes vanish. Transport orders fail. Meal trays disappear. Security arrives for the wrong wristband. And buried beneath the record is something impossible: a second identity file tied to Gideon's name that the institution has quietly preserved for years.
At first, Nora believes it's a clerical failure.
Then she realizes the duplicate record was never accidental.
Someone inside the hospital has been maintaining two versions of the same person - and the safer version is about to replace the living one.
As Nora fights to keep Gideon visible long enough to expose the system surrounding him, every attempt to document the truth becomes another liability event waiting to be erased.
Cold, procedural, and relentlessly tense, The Resolved Patient is a systems-driven institutional thriller about administrative power, identity management, and what happens when a bureaucracy decides a person is easier to process than to acknowledge.
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