Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
By: Wes Ely
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a Christopher Award “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books …
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1. A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man
By: None , Richard Walter , Michael Lawson Bishop
4.08
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-ye… read more
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2. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
3. Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Sixth Edition
By: William J. Winslade , Albert R. Jonsen , Mark Siegler
3.92
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
A practical handbook giving information relevant to the ethical issues and decisions a health care … read more
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4. The House of God
By: John Updike , Samuel Shem
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to kno… read more
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5. Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater
By: Frank Bruni
3.98
Format: None pages,
The New York Timesrestaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love… read more
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6. 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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7. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By: Tracy Kidder
4.19
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned… read more
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"Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies. They tend to develop hypochondria in medical school and, once they get over it, if they do, tend to think they're invulnerable."-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separate…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"The parents of some fellow students in the gifted and talented class owned a bookstore, and when he was about eleven they gave him a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. He read i…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
8. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
By: Damon Tweedy
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the un… read more
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10. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
By: Atul Gawande
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more
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11. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
By: None
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of t… read more
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12. Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege
By: Robert Meyer MD
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With this debut, emergency room doctor Meyer collaborates with journalist Koeppel to tell a persona… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. 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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15. 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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16. 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
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17. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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18. The Beauty in Breaking
By: Michele Harper
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself… read more
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"...this is not a book about romance or a chronicle of loss. It is a story of love rebuilt better; the story of a butterfly birthed from goo; the story of newly grown wings that beat to a higher vibra…"-Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking
19. 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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20. The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
By: Azra Raza
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience … read more
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"Treating cancer as one disease is like treating Africa as one country."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"There is one and only one goal for all of us—to ensure that all our intellectual efforts are directed toward the relief of humanity’s suffering."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"The vast majority of researchers are studying diseases they never see, in animals who don’t get them spontaneously, or in test tubes where the “cancer"-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"We should not be aiming for weeks of improved survival. Our goals should be higher. The public needs to see how far we have drifted from the original aims as oncologists and researchers and at what c…"-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
21. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
By: Daisy Hernández
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more
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22. Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
By: Wes Ely
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a Christopher Award “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books … read more
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- intensive care
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- nursing
- audiobook
23. What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
By: Tallu Quinn
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitaria… read more
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24. Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
By: Aoife Abbey
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over ou… read more
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"When relatives and friends grieve for their loved ones, they grieve for that patient: who they were and what they meant to their lives. When doctors find themselves unexpectedly ambushed by grief ove…"-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
"I don't believe the sickest people that I meet throughout my day at work are in the business of having outlandish desires, either. I don't think they are staring at the square-tiled ceiling of the in…"-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
25. Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
By: Theresa Brown
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world … read more
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26. You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
By: Daniela Lamas
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what l… read more
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27. Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
By: Sarah DiGregorio
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the … read more
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28. 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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29. Daisy Cooper's Rules for Living
By: Tamsin Keily
3.62
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
“Fun, fresh—a brilliant love story with a twist.” —Jenny Colgan, author of The Bookshop on the Corn… read more
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"Beware the words not said... (because) the words we don’t want to say are often the most important."-Tamsin Keily, Daisy Cooper's Rules for Living
"The strength of a friendship lies in how well you protect that weak spot and how well you patch it up when something does rip through it."-Tamsin Keily, Daisy Cooper's Rules for Living
30. A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
By: Perri Klass
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only … read more
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31. Grief on the Front Lines: Doctors, Nurses, and Healthcare Workers Speak Out on the Invisible Wounds They Carry
By: Rachel Jones
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
For readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee--a timely, vital exploration of the burnout, g… read more
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