Summary & Analysis of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
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4.42
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
By: Adam Kay
4.40
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more
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"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
3. When Breath Becomes Air
By: Abraham Verghese , Paul Kalanithi
4.40
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely obse… read more
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"If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. …"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
4. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
By: Michael J. Collins
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rock… read more
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"I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking th…"-Michael J. Collins, Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
5. 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
6. Bad Science
By: Ben Goldacre
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad … read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1 (Millennium: The Graphic Novels, #1.1)
By: Stieg Larsson , Denise Mina , Andrea Mutti , Leonardo Manco
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
The official graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. This is b… read more
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10. 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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11. How Doctors Think
By: Jerome Groopman
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. I… read more
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12. The Invention of Air
By: Steven Johnson
4.20
Format: None pages,
The Invention of Airis a story of sweeping historical transformation, of genius and friendship, vio… read more
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13. Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
By: Sam Zell
3.50
Format: 0 pages,
The traits that make Sam Zell one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs also make him one of… read more
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14. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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15. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more
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16. The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
By: Matt McCarthy
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor--the sort of mythical,… read more
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17. 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
18. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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19. The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film
By: Khaled Hosseini , David Benioff
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
With more than 120 photos in full color and the complete screenplay, the story behind the making of… read more
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20. 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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21. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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22. Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
By: Michael J. Collins
4.28
Format: 320 pages,
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23. Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
By: None
4.00
Format: 112 pages,
"In Jauhar's wise memoir of his two-year ordeal of doubt and sleep deprivation at a New York hospit… read more
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24. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
By: Michael Lewis
3.93
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a sim… read more
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25. The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
By: Diana Helmuth
3.76
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A skeptic’s year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fa… read more
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"It occurs to me that the energy in my body is the same as the energy in the red power lights, just a different current. What’s inside the office lights is inside me. It’s also what’s in the stars a m…"-Diana Helmuth, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
26. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
By: Tom Wright
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more
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27. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
28. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
By: Christie Watson
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more
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"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
29. Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
By: Roma Agrawal
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what… read more
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30. When Breath Becomes Air / Being Mortal / Where Does It Hurt?
By: Paul Kalanithi
4.35
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
When breath becomes air, being mortal and where does it hurt 3 books collection set. Description:- … read more
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31. Summary & Analysis of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
By: aBookaDay
4.42
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
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