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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1928 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.49 — 213,547 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1744 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.41 — 781,017 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1399 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,394 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1150 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,828 ratings — published 2010
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1099 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,947 ratings — published 2002
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 997 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.40 — 321,368 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 986 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.05 — 242,401 ratings — published 1985
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 838 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,751 ratings — published 2007
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 767 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,045 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 708 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,575 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 613 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,154 ratings — published 1997
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 555 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,773 ratings — published 1978
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 545 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.04 — 74,406 ratings — published 2009
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 473 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.33 — 421,289 ratings — published 2009
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,009 ratings — published 2003
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,684 ratings — published 2016
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 439 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,249 ratings — published 2007
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,309 ratings — published 1994
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,218 ratings — published 2004
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 337 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 235,058 ratings — published 2012
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,610 ratings — published 2006
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 332 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,897 ratings — published 2019
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.32 — 46,923 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.37 — 219,822 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.36 — 264,472 ratings — published 2014
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.35 — 11,547 ratings — published 1996
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 277 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,797 ratings — published 2009
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,983 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.40 — 125,347 ratings — published 2025
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,831 ratings — published 2007
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
by (shelved 256 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,126 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,590 ratings — published 2008
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.54 — 130,562 ratings — published 2021
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,222 ratings — published 1994
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,009 ratings — published 1987
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.54 — 14,670 ratings — published 2019
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.26 — 27,097 ratings — published 2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,090 ratings — published 2013
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.08 — 54,567 ratings — published 2014
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,553 ratings — published 2022
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,215 ratings — published 2012
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,872 ratings — published 2019
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,552 ratings — published 2013
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.33 — 89,738 ratings — published 2023
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,193 ratings — published 2012
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,945 ratings — published 1973
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,940 ratings — published 2016
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,945 ratings — published 1994
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,973 ratings — published 2005
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,522 ratings — published 2015
“The brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; (2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; (3) we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and (4) we can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive.
When we ignore these quintessential dimensions of humanity, we deprive people of ways to heal from trauma and restore their autonomy. Being a patient, rather than a participant in one’s healing process, separates suffering people from their community and alienates them from an inner sense of self.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
When we ignore these quintessential dimensions of humanity, we deprive people of ways to heal from trauma and restore their autonomy. Being a patient, rather than a participant in one’s healing process, separates suffering people from their community and alienates them from an inner sense of self.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
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