18 must-read nonfiction books like Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER by Jay Baruch

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Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER

By: Jay Baruch

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Stories from the a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of c…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER by Jay Baruch , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. The Onion Field

By: Joseph Wambaugh

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destini… read more

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2. Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour of -And Escape From- Healthcareland

By: None

3.00

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Taking charge of your health has never been so important as it is today. Jody Berger has discovered… read more

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3. Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon

By: None

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER… read more

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4. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more

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5. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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6. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

By: Ian Urbina

4.36

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Slavery is a harsh reality thatmour better angels would like to think ended two centuries ago, when many countries passed laws against such bondage withing their borders. But this sort of bondage is …"

-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

"This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on th…"

-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

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7. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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9. Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

By: Ed Patrick

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching a… read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series)

By: Emily Oster

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller! “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. 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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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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13. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. 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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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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16. Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea

By: Ben MacFarlane

4.42

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea? Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spen… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. On Scene: More Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between (A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between Book 2)

By: Steven "Kelly" Grayson

4.62

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

“Joy and tragedy are flip sides of the same coin. If you insulate yourself against the pain of feel… read more

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18. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

By: Kevin Hazzard

4.57

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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19. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic

By: Anthony Almojera

3.84

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
Cover of Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family by Janet Smuga

20. Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family

By: Janet Smuga

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Damaged is a story of survivor's guilt coupled with resentment tempered by love. It reveals the cha… read more

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21. Metropolis

By: B.A. Shapiro

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author B. A. Shapiro, a gripping novel that follows six mysterious characters whos… read more

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22. Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

By: Gavin Francis

4.07

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

“An essential book for our times, full of wisdom, compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs … read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science
Cover of Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER by Jay Baruch

23. Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER

By: Jay Baruch

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Stories from the a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of c… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science
Cover of On Borrowed Breath: A memoir of faith, love and advocating through a health crisis by Karen Campbell Wilkinson

24. On Borrowed Breath: A memoir of faith, love and advocating through a health crisis

By: Karen Campbell Wilkinson

4.39

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when the love of your life is hanging by a thread? This is the reality that I found… read more

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25. Crash: Stories From the Emergency Room

By: David Berg

3.40

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories From the Emergency Room is a gripping anthology series that takes readers inside the hectic… read more

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26. A License to Heal: Recollections of an ER Doctor

By: Steven Bentley

4.19

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

Steven Bentley, M.D. is a board certified ER doctor with a career spanning more than thirty years i… read more

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Cover of If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First by Wendy Dean

27. If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

By: Wendy Dean

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Through stories and solutions, leading physicians tackle the conundrum of how best to care for pati… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Stat: Crazy Medical Stories: Volume 4 by David Berg

28. Stat: Crazy Medical Stories: Volume 4

By: David Berg

4.24

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

-Extraordinary encounters. Unexpected humor. Endless challenges. Life-threatening diseases. Unthink… read more

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Cover of Crash: Stories From the Emergency Room: Volume 2 by David Berg

29. Crash: Stories From the Emergency Room: Volume 2

By: David Berg

3.77

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories From the Emergency Room is a gripping anthology series that takes readers inside the hectic… read more

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30. Grady Medic

By: James A. Trimble

4.46

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever looked at a passing ambulance's flashing lights and screaming siren and thought, "Wha… read more

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Cover of The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor by Stephen L. Hauser

31. The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor

By: Stephen L. Hauser

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest … read more

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

9 Best memoir books like Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER by Jay Baruch

Transform Your Habits

Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

Ed Patrick

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Ages of Death

Richard Shepherd

4.38

Transform Your Habits

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

Jay Wellons

4.44

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16 Best nonfiction books like Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea by Ben MacFarlane

Transform Your Habits

Trauma Room Two

Philip Allen Green

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea

Ben MacFarlane

4.42

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