The Last Patient File: The Echo of the Past

Dr. Mira Patel, a veteran ER physician in Chicago, is weeks away from retirement when she receives a sealed envelope with no return address. Inside is a single photocopied page from a patient’s chart — dated twenty-three years earlier — with the words “You missed something” scribbled across the top in red ink.

As she digs into old hospital archives, Mira discovers that the patient, a young woman, had died under suspicious circumstances — but the original records were destroyed in a fire. Now, each person she contacts from that night seems either unwilling to talk… or dead.

Her search forces her to confront the unspoken compromises of her profession, the quiet politics of hospital life, and the thin line between medical error and criminal negligence. The deeper she goes, the more she realizes this isn’t just about one patient — it’s about a cover-up that could still be claiming lives today.

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Release date

Audiobook: 10 August 2025