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When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1259 times as medical)
avg rating 4.41 — 846,840 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1054 times as medical)
avg rating 4.49 — 225,693 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 909 times as medical)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,268 ratings — published 2010
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 804 times as medical)
avg rating 4.39 — 341,921 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 773 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,884 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 748 times as medical)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,550 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 688 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 253,177 ratings — published 1985
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 670 times as medical)
avg rating 4.28 — 53,472 ratings — published 2002
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as medical)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,965 ratings — published 2007
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,260 ratings — published 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 437 times as medical)
avg rating 4.09 — 242,510 ratings — published 2012
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,903 ratings — published 1994
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 389 times as medical)
avg rating 4.32 — 286,762 ratings — published 2025
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 437,497 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 328 times as medical)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,840 ratings — published 1997
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as medical)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,601 ratings — published 1978
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,212 ratings — published 2009
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as medical)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,301 ratings — published 2004
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,096 ratings — published 2019
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as medical)
avg rating 4.27 — 28,897 ratings — published 2014
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,490 ratings — published 2007
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as medical)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,754 ratings — published 2018
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as medical)
avg rating 4.33 — 365,801 ratings — published 2007
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,159 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as medical)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,539 ratings — published 2006
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 228 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,111 ratings — published 2009
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as medical)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,707 ratings — published 2019
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as medical)
avg rating 4.33 — 305,664 ratings — published 2014
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,800 ratings — published 2016
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as medical)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,884 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as medical)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,228 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,507 ratings — published 2013
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as medical)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,859 ratings — published 2017
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as medical)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,607 ratings — published 2007
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as medical)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,834 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 — 57,841 ratings — published 2014
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as medical)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,260 ratings — published 2005
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as medical)
avg rating 4.53 — 148,666 ratings — published 2021
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,842 ratings — published 2013
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 195,733 ratings — published 2016
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as medical)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,062 ratings — published 2012
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as medical)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,836 ratings — published 2019
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as medical)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,389 ratings — published 2012
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,358 ratings — published 2006
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,757 ratings — published 2016
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 — 14,106 ratings — published 2014
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,059 ratings — published 2017
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as medical)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,689 ratings — published 2007
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as medical)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,435 ratings — published 2017
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,670 ratings — published 2002
“Love is a chemical reaction,
But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
And though a body cannot exist without a soul,
It too cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
Love is the most powerful form of energy,
But science cannot decipher its elements.
Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love,
But even the most advanced physician
Cannot prescribe it as medicine.
INCOMPLETE SCIENCE by Suzy Kassem”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
And though a body cannot exist without a soul,
It too cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
Love is the most powerful form of energy,
But science cannot decipher its elements.
Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love,
But even the most advanced physician
Cannot prescribe it as medicine.
INCOMPLETE SCIENCE by Suzy Kassem”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.”
― Letters To A Young Doctor: Literary Reflections on the Brutality and Beauty of Saving and Losing Lives in Medicine
― Letters To A Young Doctor: Literary Reflections on the Brutality and Beauty of Saving and Losing Lives in Medicine
