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When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1264 times as medical)
avg rating 4.41 — 855,228 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1055 times as medical)
avg rating 4.49 — 227,336 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 912 times as medical)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,887 ratings — published 2010
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 813 times as medical)
avg rating 4.39 — 344,675 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 784 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,673 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 749 times as medical)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,310 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 691 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,857 ratings — published 1985
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 671 times as medical)
avg rating 4.28 — 53,650 ratings — published 2002
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as medical)
avg rating 4.24 — 38,109 ratings — published 2007
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 452 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,570 ratings — published 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 435 times as medical)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,585 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 407 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 302,009 ratings — published 2025
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 404 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,567 ratings — published 1994
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 336 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 439,712 ratings — published 2009
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as medical)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,172 ratings — published 1997
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as medical)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,828 ratings — published 1978
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,582 ratings — published 2009
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,133 ratings — published 2019
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as medical)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,462 ratings — published 2004
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as medical)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,313 ratings — published 2018
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as medical)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,223 ratings — published 2014
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,518 ratings — published 2007
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as medical)
avg rating 4.33 — 366,885 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 249 times as medical)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,840 ratings — published 2006
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,225 ratings — published 1996
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 230 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,153 ratings — published 2009
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as medical)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,946 ratings — published 2019
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as medical)
avg rating 4.33 — 310,831 ratings — published 2014
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,239 ratings — published 2016
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as medical)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,166 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as medical)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,533 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,849 ratings — published 2013
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as medical)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,085 ratings — published 2017
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as medical)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,692 ratings — published 2007
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as medical)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,863 ratings — published 2015
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as medical)
avg rating 4.08 — 58,291 ratings — published 2014
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as medical)
avg rating 4.53 — 152,307 ratings — published 2021
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as medical)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,355 ratings — published 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 53,065 ratings — published 2013
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 198,704 ratings — published 2016
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as medical)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,567 ratings — published 2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as medical)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,185 ratings — published 2012
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as medical)
avg rating 4.53 — 16,002 ratings — published 2019
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,499 ratings — published 2006
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,971 ratings — published 2016
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,097 ratings — published 2017
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,172 ratings — published 2014
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,776 ratings — published 2002
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as medical)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,695 ratings — published 2007
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 153,298 ratings — published 2020
“There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely."
"Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school.”
― Lover Unbound
"Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school.”
― Lover Unbound
“It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages him to do his best.”
― The Ruby Knight
― The Ruby Knight
