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When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1225 times as medical)
avg rating 4.41 — 801,149 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1027 times as medical)
avg rating 4.49 — 216,869 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 893 times as medical)
avg rating 4.13 — 802,097 ratings — published 2010
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 794 times as medical)
avg rating 4.40 — 328,427 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 761 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,927 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 729 times as medical)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,418 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 681 times as medical)
avg rating 4.05 — 245,451 ratings — published 1985
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 669 times as medical)
avg rating 4.28 — 52,365 ratings — published 2002
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 457 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,127 ratings — published 2007
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 441 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,660 ratings — published 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 432 times as medical)
avg rating 4.09 — 237,055 ratings — published 2012
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,247 ratings — published 1994
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as medical)
avg rating 4.33 — 425,528 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 317 times as medical)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,965 ratings — published 1997
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as medical)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,296 ratings — published 1978
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 282 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,202 ratings — published 2009
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as medical)
avg rating 4.37 — 176,419 ratings — published 2025
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as medical)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,523 ratings — published 2004
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as medical)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,621 ratings — published 2014
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,311 ratings — published 2007
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as medical)
avg rating 4.32 — 47,816 ratings — published 2018
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,880 ratings — published 2019
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as medical)
avg rating 4.32 — 359,892 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 246 times as medical)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,130 ratings — published 2006
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 11,665 ratings — published 1996
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 227 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,884 ratings — published 2009
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as medical)
avg rating 4.11 — 71,254 ratings — published 2019
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 — 22,517 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,533 ratings — published 2016
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as medical)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,602 ratings — published 2003
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 276,269 ratings — published 2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,790 ratings — published 2013
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as medical)
avg rating 4.37 — 224,944 ratings — published 2017
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as medical)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,012 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 — 7,603 ratings — published 2015
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as medical)
avg rating 4.08 — 55,487 ratings — published 2014
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,014 ratings — published 2005
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as medical)
avg rating 4.54 — 134,611 ratings — published 2021
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as medical)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,528 ratings — published 2013
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as medical)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,416 ratings — published 2012
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 184,496 ratings — published 2016
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 32,443 ratings — published 2006
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as medical)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,082 ratings — published 2019
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as medical)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,958 ratings — published 2012
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as medical)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,615 ratings — published 2007
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 — 13,732 ratings — published 2014
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 — 5,841 ratings — published 2017
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as medical)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,111 ratings — published 1973
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as medical)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,059 ratings — published 2016
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,051 ratings — published 2002
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”
― The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View
― The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View
“The important question isn't how to keep bad physicians from harming patient; it's how to keep good physicians from harming patients. Medical malpractice suits are a remarkably ineffective remedy.
(In reference to a Harvard Medical Practice Study)... fewer than 2 percent of the patients who had received substandard care ever filed suit. Conversely, only a small minority among patients who did sue had in fact been victims of negligent care. And a patient's likelihood of winning a suit depended primarily on how poor his or her outcome was, regardless of whether that outcome was caused by disease or unavoidable risks of care. The deeper problem with medical malpractice is that by demonizing errors they prevent doctors from acknowledging & discussing them publicly. The tort system makes adversaries of patient & physician, and pushes each other to offer a heavily slanted version of events.
”
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
(In reference to a Harvard Medical Practice Study)... fewer than 2 percent of the patients who had received substandard care ever filed suit. Conversely, only a small minority among patients who did sue had in fact been victims of negligent care. And a patient's likelihood of winning a suit depended primarily on how poor his or her outcome was, regardless of whether that outcome was caused by disease or unavoidable risks of care. The deeper problem with medical malpractice is that by demonizing errors they prevent doctors from acknowledging & discussing them publicly. The tort system makes adversaries of patient & physician, and pushes each other to offer a heavily slanted version of events.
”
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
