17 must-read science books like All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience by Jay Wellons

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All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as…

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Cover of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande, None

1. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By: Atul Gawande , None

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Mim Eichler Rivas, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

2. Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

By: Mim Eichler Rivas , Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

3.63

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads c… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

3. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By: Henry Marsh

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri

4. What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

By: Danielle Ofri

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A look at the emotional side of medicine--the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love t… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

5. Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine

By: None

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking medical memoir by one of our nation's leading pediatric surgeons--the visionary he… read more

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6. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In oth… read more

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Cover of Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder

7. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

8. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon A. Nahvi

9. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich

10. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

By: Joshua D. Mezrich

4.23

Format: 384 pages, ebook

At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."

-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"

-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

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11. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

12. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

By: Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

13. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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14. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine by J. Thomas Grant

15. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas         Fisher

16. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

By: Thomas Fisher

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine

17. The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

By: Karen Fine

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small mee… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska

18. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

By: Barbara K. Lipska

3.88

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"

-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Cover of A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain by Sara Manning Peskin

19. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

By: Sara Manning Peskin

4.21

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena

20. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience by Jay Wellons

21. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh

22. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

By: Priya Fielding-Singh

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt… read more

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  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh

23. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

By: Henry Marsh

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room by Paul Seward

24. Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room

By: Paul Seward

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A boy is pulled from a river and brought back to life: Will he be the same child he was? A priest o… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stat: Crazy Medical Stories: Volume 1 by David Berg

25. Stat: Crazy Medical Stories: Volume 1

By: David Berg

3.56

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

BONUS BOOK INCLUDED WITH KINDLE! Extraordinary encounters. Unexpected humor. Endless challenges.… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
Cover of End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis

26. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

Cover of The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Cornelia Griggs

27. The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope

By: Cornelia Griggs

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon by Stephen Westaby

28. The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon

By: Stephen Westaby

4.30

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the p… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams

29. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal

By: Brian H. Williams

4.43

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all Trauma su… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Jasmine Brown

30. Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

By: Jasmine Brown

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The first complete history of Black women physicians in the US, told through a blend of extensive a… read more

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  • biography
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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31. Wonder Drug

By: Stephen Trzeciak

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A pair of doctors team up to illuminate, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their cl… read more

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20 best-selling audiobook books like All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience by Jay Wellons

Transform Your Habits

Rough Sleepers

Tracy Kidder

4.35

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

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When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

Joshua D. Mezrich

4.23

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9 Top audiobook books like Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room by Paul Seward

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Under the Lake

Stuart Woods

3.91

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The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

Elizabeth Berg

3.70

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Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

Cory Franklin

3.57

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All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

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