9 must-read memoir books like Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care by Ilana Yurkiewicz

Cover of Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care by Ilana Yurkiewicz

Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care

By: Ilana Yurkiewicz

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning physician-writer exposes how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us ti…

If you liked the memoir plot in Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care by Ilana Yurkiewicz , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. 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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2. Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

By: Les Standiford

4.15

Format: 32 pages, ebook

The author of Last Train to Paradisetells the story of the largest public water project ever create… read more

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3. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

By: Allison Hoover Bartlett

3.87

Format: 288 pages,

In the tradition of 'The Orchid Thief', a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel w… read more

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4. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

By: Alden Wicker

4.32

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the… read more

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  • science
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • health
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5. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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6. 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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  • health care
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

8. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

9. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

10. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. 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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  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • science
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12. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

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  • politics
Cover of The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan  Page

13. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

By: Susan Page

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail

14. Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

By: Theresa MacPhail

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cuttin… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benjamin  Herold

15. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

By: Christopher C. Gorham

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes th… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By: Daniel Wallace

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

18. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care by Ilana Yurkiewicz

19. Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care

By: Ilana Yurkiewicz

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning physician-writer exposes how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us ti… read more

Similar categories in Ilana Yurkiewicz's Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care book and Ilana Yurkiewicz's Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care

  • health care
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • science
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

20. 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 care
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman

21. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

By: Peter S. Goodman

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction

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4.38

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Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

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Lionel Shriver

3.69

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3.89

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Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

4.00

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