27 Top memoir books like Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon A. Nahvi

Cover of Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon A. Nahvi

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…

If you liked the memoir plot in Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon A. Nahvi , here is a list of 27 books like this:

Cover of The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year by Matt   McCarthy

1. 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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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin

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

3. 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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Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

4. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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

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

7. 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

Similar categories in Farzon A. Nahvi's Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER book and Farzon A. Nahvi's Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich

8. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

By: Joshua D. Mezrich

4.23

Format: 384 pages, ebook

At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."

-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"

-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

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9. 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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

10. 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 A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

11. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine

12. The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

By: Karen Fine

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small mee… read more

Similar categories in Karen Fine's The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality book and Farzon A. Nahvi's Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena

13. 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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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

14. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience by Jay Wellons

15. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Sandeep Jauhar

16. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

By: Sandeep Jauhar

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

17. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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

18. 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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of In Sickness: A Memoir by Barrett Rollins

19. In Sickness: A Memoir

By: Barrett Rollins

3.77

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A medical emergency forces a brilliant Harvard oncologist to reveal that she has been hiding her ad… read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
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  • biography memoir
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  • audiobook
Cover of Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes

20. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

By: Jennifer Vanderbes

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle  Dowd

21. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown

22. Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

By: Theresa Brown

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world … read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic by Anthony Almojera

23. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic

By: Anthony Almojera

3.84

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

24. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Cornelia Griggs

25. The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope

By: Cornelia Griggs

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier by Thomas J. Sims

26. On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier

By: Thomas J. Sims

4.28

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb

27. OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Go behind the scenes inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where goo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir by Cassandra Alexander

28. Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

By: Cassandra Alexander

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Year of the Nurse is Cassie Alexander's poignant effort to come to grips with suicidal ideation and… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg

29. Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic

By: Emma Goldberg

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening bo… read more

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Cover of The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams

30. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal

By: Brian H. Williams

4.43

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all Trauma su… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor by Stephen L. Hauser

31. The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor

By: Stephen L. Hauser

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest … read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Nicole Chung

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3.92

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Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

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3.68

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Tommy Orange

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