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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2009 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.49 — 225,552 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1831 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.41 — 846,183 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1461 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,819 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1190 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,907 ratings — published 2010
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1123 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.28 — 53,450 ratings — published 2002
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 1030 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.39 — 341,708 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 1000 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.04 — 253,017 ratings — published 1985
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 852 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,955 ratings — published 2007
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 790 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,233 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 724 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,427 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 637 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,804 ratings — published 1997
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 570 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,585 ratings — published 1978
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 563 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,186 ratings — published 2009
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 493 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 437,278 ratings — published 2009
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,210 ratings — published 2003
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 479 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.32 — 285,574 ratings — published 2025
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 472 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,763 ratings — published 2016
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 447 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,488 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 — 124,845 ratings — published 1994
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,001 ratings — published 2019
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,285 ratings — published 2004
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 346 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 242,434 ratings — published 2012
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 338 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,518 ratings — published 2006
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 334 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,723 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 308 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,687 ratings — published 2017
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,863 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.33 — 305,225 ratings — published 2014
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 291 times as medicine)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,107 ratings — published 2009
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,151 ratings — published 1996
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,597 ratings — published 2007
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.53 — 148,368 ratings — published 2021
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,294 ratings — published 2008
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
by (shelved 258 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,346 ratings — published 2015
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,334 ratings — published 2022
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,479 ratings — published 1994
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,826 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 — 42,481 ratings — published 2013
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.27 — 28,875 ratings — published 2014
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,894 ratings — published 1987
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.08 — 57,805 ratings — published 2014
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.30 — 103,689 ratings — published 2023
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,054 ratings — published 2012
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,684 ratings — published 2019
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,692 ratings — published 2013
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,483 ratings — published 2012
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,516 ratings — published 1973
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,831 ratings — published 2015
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,242 ratings — published 2005
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,364 ratings — published 2016
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as medicine)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,569 ratings — published 1994
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
―
―
“THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE
Before you examine the body of a patient,
Be patient to learn his story.
For once you learn his story,
You will also come to know
His body.
Before you diagnose any sickness,
Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart.
For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun,
Can point to the sickness in
Any one of his other parts.
Before you treat a man with a condition,
Know that not all cures can heal all people.
For the chemistry that works on one patient,
May not work for the next,
Because even medicine has its own
Conditions.
Before asserting a prognosis on any patient,
Always be objective and never subjective.
For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life,
But then later discovering that he will lose,
Will harm him more than by telling him
That he may lose,
But then he wins.
THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE by Suzy Kassem”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Before you examine the body of a patient,
Be patient to learn his story.
For once you learn his story,
You will also come to know
His body.
Before you diagnose any sickness,
Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart.
For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun,
Can point to the sickness in
Any one of his other parts.
Before you treat a man with a condition,
Know that not all cures can heal all people.
For the chemistry that works on one patient,
May not work for the next,
Because even medicine has its own
Conditions.
Before asserting a prognosis on any patient,
Always be objective and never subjective.
For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life,
But then later discovering that he will lose,
Will harm him more than by telling him
That he may lose,
But then he wins.
THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE by Suzy Kassem”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
