Hospitals


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
The Women
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
Clans of the Alphane Moon
The Graceview Patient
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
You're in Good Paws
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Clean
Suicide Notes
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Mental Illness and Mental Hospitals
189 books — 95 voters
Asylum by Madeleine RouxSanctum by Madeleine RouxThe Scarlets by Madeleine RouxProject 17 by Laurie Faria StolarzThe Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki
Haunted Hospitals
47 books — 64 voters

Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenDoctors in Hell by Janet E. MorrisTainted Shadows by Kendrick Sims
Evil Hospitals and Asylums
106 books — 143 voters
2003 - Thanks for the Vodka by HarpieA Rather Unusual Romance by Stevie TurnerThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanThe Right To The Truth by I.C. PapachristosYou Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral by Ann Marie Hancock
Medical Humanities
158 books — 37 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Right To The Truth by I.C. PapachristosThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Forever Night Stand by Bena RobertsThe Upside of Cancer by Christopher   Foster
Best Books about Surviving Cancer
53 books — 49 voters
Future Widow by Jenny LiskOwn Your Care by Jeanne  LeeWhen Evening Comes by Christine AndreaeSort of Forever by Sally WarnerOn Living by Kerry Egan
Hospice
20 books — 19 voters

Prayer to Our Lady of Waiting Rooms Let the seats be plentiful and padded. Let the magazines be recent or let the book I’ve brought last until we can leave. Let the TV on its bolted stand be off, muted, or showing something I can ignore— weather, gameshows, CNN. Let the room be mostly empty—no one shouting, sobbing, asking about my husband’s health. Let everyone be strangers except the staff. Let the walls be freshly painted, soothing to behold. Let my husband be there for a physical o ...more
Carrie Shipers

After thousands of hours at the bedside and thousands of hours in education with my students, one thing I’ve come to understand is that of all the contagious things in a hospital—measles and tuberculosis and Covid-19—nothing is easier to catch than anxiety. It spreads faster than you can say, “I’m nervous.” And almost always, the most anxious person in the room is the last to be aware of it, even after they’ve infected everyone around them.
Keith Wakefield

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