19 must-read nonfiction books like 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life by Tom Templeton

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34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life

By: Tom Templeton

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he'll die tomor…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life by Tom Templeton , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon

By: Henry Marsh

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in… read more

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2. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. 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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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

By: Benji Waterhouse

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator

By: Patricia Wiltshire

3.60

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where natu… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry

By: Ben Cave

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

By: Matt Morgan

4.07

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensiv… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
"I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of a…"

-Matt Morgan, Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

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8. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. 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
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10. 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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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
"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

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11. 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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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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12. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Stitched Up

By: Shahed Yousaf

4.18

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, th… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life by Kate   Marshall

14. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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15. Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

By: Rachel Clarke

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people wou… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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16. The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP

By: Amir Khan

4.43

Format: 288 pages, ebook

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER60 hours a week240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis Welcome to the su… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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17. People of the ER

By: Philip Allen Green

4.29

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

Standing in the trauma room of an emergency department is like standing at ground zero of a nuclear… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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18. Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

By: Jake Jones

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic. A young man has s… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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19. Life, Death and Biscuits

By: Anthea Allen

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line o… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life

By: Tom Templeton

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he'll die tomor… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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21. Critical - Stories from the Front Line of Intensive Care Medicine

By: Matt Morgan

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

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19 Top memoir books like 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life by Tom Templeton

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3.91

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4.48

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