14 Best biography books like When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error by Danielle Ofri

Cover of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error by Danielle Ofri

When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error

By: Danielle Ofri

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when…

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Cover of The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder

1. The People We Hate at the Wedding

By: Grant Ginder

2.85

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

The People We Hate at the Wedding is now a major motion picture starring Kristen Bell, Allison Jann… read more

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

2. 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 Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough by Lori Gottlieb

3. Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

By: Lori Gottlieb

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

The controversial national bestseller! Nearly forty and single, Lori Gottlieb faced the unthinkabl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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4. The Dead Alive

By: Wilkie Collins

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories… read more

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Cover of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

5. Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

By: Lisa Sanders

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School … read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year by Matt   McCarthy

6. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

7. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

With casual hookups and campus rape relentlessly in the news, parents can be forgiven for feeling a… read more

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Cover of Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin

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

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

9. Beyond the High Blue Air

By: Lu Spinney

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Paperback

When Lu Spinney's twenty-nine-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not i… read more

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10. 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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11. Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

By: Stephen Westaby

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remar… read more

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12. Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong

By: Susan Blumberg-Kason

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love wi… read more

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13. The Demon in the Freezer

By: Richard Preston

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

"The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines." -Richard Danzig, former sec… read more

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14. 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 The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach

15. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege by Robert Meyer MD

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

17. 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 Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far by Paul A. Offit

18. Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

By: Paul A. Offit

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thor… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine by Rachel Pearson

19. No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

By: Rachel Pearson

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In medical charts, the term “N.A.D.” (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable.… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders

20. Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

By: Lisa Sanders

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tell… 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

21. 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 E.R. Nurses by James  Patterson

22. E.R. Nurses

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

James Patterson and Matt Eversmann present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives … read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My job isn't just taking care of patients. I take care of families too. It is the greatest gift."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

Cover of I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture by Annie Ernaux

23. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

By: Annie Ernaux

4.15

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir by Wendy Mitchell

24. Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir

By: Wendy Mitchell

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters al… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?"

-Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir

Cover of And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh

25. 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 We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian Horton

26. We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing

By: Jillian Horton

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When we need help, we count on doctors to put us back together. But what happens when doctors fall … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel

27. Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

By: Jacob M. Appel

3.92

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Drawing upon the author’s two decades of teaching medical ethics at America’s top universities and … read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error by Danielle Ofri

28. When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error

By: Danielle Ofri

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected by Chavi Eve Karkowsky

29. High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected

By: Chavi Eve Karkowsky

4.40

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Karkowsky offers a window into all that pregnancy, labor, and birth can entail—birth and joy, but a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between by Daniela Lamas

30. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of How to Survive a Pandemic by Michael Greger

31. How to Survive a Pandemic

By: Michael Greger

4.24

Format: 1000 pages, ebook

A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Time… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 Best audiobook books like When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error by Danielle Ofri

Transform Your Habits

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Grant Ginder

2.85

Transform Your Habits

Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Lori Gottlieb

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

Lisa Sanders

4.15

Transform Your Habits

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

Cory Franklin

3.57

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5 Best adult books like E.R. Nurses by James Patterson

Transform Your Habits

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

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Transform Your Habits

E.R. Nurses

James Patterson

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Run, Rose, Run

Dolly Parton

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

Theresa Brown

3.61

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