351 books
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266 voters
Listopia > Lenny Husen's votes on the list The Resilience Shelf Project (57 Books)
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Physician Suicide Letters Answered
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"so that doctors know how many physicians think about suicide and how often they die of suicide "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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"Fascinating medical history book, exceedingly well written"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The White Coat Investor: A Doctor's Guide to Personal Finance and Investing (The White Coat Investor Series)
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"some useful information for doctors we are idiots regarding finance--most of us"
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Polio: An American Story
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"good medical history book--a bit dry, but worthy "
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment
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"excellent book on how to communicate with patients and family members with serious
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
mental illness this teaches compassion and empathetic listening " See Review |
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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"all doctors secretly want to be writers (and detectives, and TV stars)"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Shock-Trauma
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"awesome medical history book of ICU medicine back before CT scans "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Life is a Beautiful Verse
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"poetry by a physician, many poems relevant to docs "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration
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"funny, about bureaucracy "
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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"how to communicate with people who drive you crazy "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
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"not great but worth a read/listen, lots of good advice "
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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Lucky Man
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"awesome memoir and good for docs to know about Parkinson's Disease in young people "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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El Deafo: A Graphic Novel
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"helps docs understand hearing loss and a very funny entertaining book"
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Bellevue: A History of America's Oldest Hospital
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"excellent history book for docs--especially for those of us who work in hospitals"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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"inspirational "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling
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"many women docs have a difficult relationship with food (many women do in general)"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life – A True Story of Courage, Hope, and Indomitable Spirit from a Top Tennis Player
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"inspirational "
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
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"interesting book"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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"pure fun and escape "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal
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"outstanding book about SF General about 25 years ago "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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"this is a helluva good book about obesity "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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"bereavement book, thoughtful."
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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F*ck That: An Honest Meditation
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"funny "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart: Parables of the Spiritual Path from Around the World
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"great stories, fun to read and think and talk about"
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
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"one of the best books ever about a doctor's career in Neurosurgery."
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
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"of interest to doctors "
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
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"uplifting "
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Everyday Matters
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"inspirational memoir"
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
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"fascinating story, inspirational "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine
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"self-explanatory"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
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"excellent book, have read at least twice "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Left Neglected
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"great novel and relevant to doctors "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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When Breath Becomes Air
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"i kind of hated this but it is good, about a dying doctor"
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
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"excellent, every doc should read this "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir
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"good memoir"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Quinoterapia
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"funny cartoons about doctors and patients "
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Hallucinations
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"oliver sacks "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Awakenings
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"oliver sacks"
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are
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"inspirational (changed my life)"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome
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"worth being on the shelf "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
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"love MJF "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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"all docs should read this "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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"great book"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last
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"as good as Being Mortal "
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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"excellent inspirational novel"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
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"title self-explanatory "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Stop Physician Burnout: What to Do When Working Harder Isn't Working
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"stop physician burnout!"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons
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Of Human Bondage
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
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The Tennis Partner
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Cutting for Stone
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Mindfulness in Plain English
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Is Fred in the Refrigerator?: Taming OCD and Reclaiming My Life
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