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When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1240 times as medical)
avg rating 4.41 — 820,404 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1037 times as medical)
avg rating 4.49 — 220,512 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 901 times as medical)
avg rating 4.13 — 811,740 ratings — published 2010
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 798 times as medical)
avg rating 4.40 — 334,292 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 768 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,473 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 734 times as medical)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,607 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 682 times as medical)
avg rating 4.05 — 248,597 ratings — published 1985
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 672 times as medical)
avg rating 4.28 — 52,817 ratings — published 2002
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,459 ratings — published 2007
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 444 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,347 ratings — published 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 433 times as medical)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,441 ratings — published 2012
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 122,517 ratings — published 1994
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 338 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 230,749 ratings — published 2025
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 430,693 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 320 times as medical)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,750 ratings — published 1997
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as medical)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,844 ratings — published 1978
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,124 ratings — published 2009
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as medical)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,848 ratings — published 2004
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as medical)
avg rating 4.27 — 28,131 ratings — published 2014
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,387 ratings — published 2007
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 100,979 ratings — published 2019
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as medical)
avg rating 4.32 — 49,000 ratings — published 2018
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as medical)
avg rating 4.32 — 362,378 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as medical)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,729 ratings — published 2006
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 11,830 ratings — published 1996
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 229 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,978 ratings — published 2009
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as medical)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,018 ratings — published 2019
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,394 ratings — published 2016
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as medical)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,092 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 289,403 ratings — published 2014
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as medical)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,283 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 — 41,491 ratings — published 2013
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as medical)
avg rating 4.37 — 230,329 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 — 10,234 ratings — published 2007
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as medical)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,700 ratings — published 2015
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as medical)
avg rating 4.08 — 56,510 ratings — published 2014
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,056 ratings — published 2005
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as medical)
avg rating 4.54 — 139,645 ratings — published 2021
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,068 ratings — published 2013
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as medical)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,655 ratings — published 2012
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,023 ratings — published 2016
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as medical)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,428 ratings — published 2019
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as medical)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,680 ratings — published 2012
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 32,823 ratings — published 2006
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 135 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,882 ratings — published 2014
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as medical)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,647 ratings — published 2007
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,915 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,310 ratings — published 2016
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 147,956 ratings — published 2020
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as medical)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,085 ratings — published 2017
“When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
― Burned Out
― Burned Out
“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.”
― Second Alibi: The Banality of Life
― Second Alibi: The Banality of Life
