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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Covenant of Water
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Last Patient of the Night (An AJ Docker Medical Thriller, #1)
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
More or Less Maddy
The Surgeon
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
When Breath Becomes Air
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The House of God
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Cutting for Stone
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,844 books — 2,003 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Public Health
202 books — 121 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyA Thousand Naked Strangers by Kevin HazzardComplications by Atul GawandeCall the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Compelling Medical Memoirs
369 books — 160 voters


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Hippocrates
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates

Atul Gawande
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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