When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error
By: Danielle Ofri
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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
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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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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"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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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