Reddit reviews Isolation Ward: A Novel of Medical Suspense (Nathaniel McCormick)
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Complications is great. It's worth the price of admission for the chapter on necrotizing fasciitis alone. Also, check out Gawande's semi-regular dispatches for The New Yorker (most available online without paywall).
Also, if you like the show House, the first few seasons were largely inspired by the stories in Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives, a collection of non-fiction vignettes about epidemiologists running-down medical mysteries. It's great even if you've already seen the House episodes that cover the same diseases. There are also a couple of sequels, but they were out of print the last time I checked.
And then you have your paperback medical thrillers. Off the top of my head, a couple of decent House-esque ones were Joshua Spanogle's Isolation Ward and EARLY Tess Gerritsen books like Bloodstream.
If you want something a little more character-driven and a lot more cynical, try Richard Dooling's Critical Care, which is about 20 years old, but I think its critique of U.S.-style medicine is still relevant. (BTW, everything Dooling has written is terrific -- he's sort of a thinking person's John Grisham -- with White Man's Grave probably being his best book; I have no idea why he's not better known.)
Sealed In by Jacqueline Druga was a pretty good one IMO. It's about a hybrid virus known as Ebolapox breaking out in the midwest. Scary thing is that it's an actual experiment from during the cold war.
Also, check out Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle. This one isn't about a big scale breakout, but more of the CDC preventing one. Still, it's one of my favorite medical thrillers (and a big inspiration for my writing); so I would definitely suggest it.