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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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When Breath Becomes Air
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
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4.17 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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White Coat: Becoming a Doctor At Harvard Medical School
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3.79 avg rating — 664 ratings
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
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Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students
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3.94 avg rating — 557 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School
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Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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4.39 avg rating — 344,263 ratings
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The Doctor Stories
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What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
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3.93 avg rating — 2,772 ratings
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How Doctors Think
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
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4.23 avg rating — 13,638 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.21 avg rating — 91,138 ratings
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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
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3.91 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
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4.28 avg rating — 4,897 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.21 avg rating — 90,481 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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4.26 avg rating — 42,789 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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4.27 avg rating — 87,429 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.36 avg rating — 238,798 ratings
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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What the Eyes Don't See
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,565 ratings
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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3.82 avg rating — 4,234 ratings
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Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,671 ratings
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The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science
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4.13 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
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4.05 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine
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3.96 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
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3.89 avg rating — 3,417 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
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Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination
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What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
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4.19 avg rating — 2,710 ratings
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
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4.29 avg rating — 8,538 ratings
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10% Happier
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The Winter Soldier
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
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Brave New World
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich ― A NYT Bestselling WWII History About Crystal Meth in Nazi Germany
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The Case Against Sugar
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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Other Minds
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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
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A Disability History of the United States
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
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The Plague
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Heart of a Dog
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
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Stumbling on Happiness
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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The Demon in the Freezer
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