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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2015 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.49 — 227,136 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1837 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.41 — 854,245 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1479 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,582 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1201 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,311 ratings — published 2010
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1121 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.28 — 53,629 ratings — published 2002
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 1040 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.39 — 344,326 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 997 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,643 ratings — published 1985
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 848 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.24 — 38,094 ratings — published 2007
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 790 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,528 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 728 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,101 ratings — published 2003
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 640 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,135 ratings — published 1997
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 573 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,800 ratings — published 1978
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 559 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,528 ratings — published 2009
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 494 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 439,460 ratings — published 2009
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 491 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.31 — 300,267 ratings — published 2025
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 482 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,488 ratings — published 2003
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,180 ratings — published 2016
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 443 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,515 ratings — published 2007
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,488 ratings — published 1994
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,992 ratings — published 2019
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,429 ratings — published 2004
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 345 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,453 ratings — published 2012
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,264 ratings — published 2018
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,792 ratings — published 2006
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.36 — 238,835 ratings — published 2017
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,135 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.33 — 310,220 ratings — published 2014
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 292 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,148 ratings — published 2009
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,220 ratings — published 1996
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,679 ratings — published 2007
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.53 — 151,890 ratings — published 2021
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,407 ratings — published 2008
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
by (shelved 257 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,367 ratings — published 2015
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,563 ratings — published 2022
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,504 ratings — published 1994
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,980 ratings — published 2019
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,804 ratings — published 2013
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,172 ratings — published 2014
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.30 — 104,975 ratings — published 2023
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.08 — 58,237 ratings — published 2014
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,979 ratings — published 1987
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,174 ratings — published 2012
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,928 ratings — published 2019
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,710 ratings — published 2013
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,527 ratings — published 2012
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,562 ratings — published 1973
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,859 ratings — published 2015
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,700 ratings — published 2016
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,353 ratings — published 2005
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,638 ratings — published 1994
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“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”
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The patients get better and leave.”
― Every Fifteen Minutes
