20 Top medicine books like No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine by Rachel Pearson

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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.…

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Cover of Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon by Michael J.          Collins

1. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

By: Michael J. Collins

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rock… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
"I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking th…"

-Michael J. Collins, Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

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
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3. The Tennis Partner

By: Abraham Verghese

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

4. 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

Similar categories in Lisa Sanders's Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis book and Rachel Pearson's No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

  • science
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Trauma Room Two

By: Philip Allen Green

4.33

Format: None pages,

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa Brown

6. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

By: Theresa Brown

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Timescolumnist Theresa Br… read more

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

7. 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
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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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science

9. One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases and the Mystery of Medicine

By: Brendan Reilly

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

An epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine, One Doctordescribes life-changing experi… read more

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10. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

By: Kevin Hazzard

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's… read more

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11. 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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12. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope

By: None

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of t… read more

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13. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more

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14. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

By: Paul A. Offit

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more

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

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

17. 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
  • biography
  • 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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18. 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

Similar categories in Rachel Pearson's No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine book and Rachel Pearson's No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

19. 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

20. 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 All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience by Jay Wellons

21. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew by Maggie Bullock

22. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

By: Maggie Bullock

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

23. The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

By: Eleanor Herman

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roilin… read more

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  • science
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Mike Nichols: A Life

By: Mark Harris

4.48

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment histor… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness by Vivek H. Murthy

25. Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

By: Vivek H. Murthy

4.24

Format: 352 pages, ebook

In this groundbreaking book, Former Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy argues that … read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Today it's widely understood that one of the most important factors in preventing and addressing toxic stress in children is healthy social connection."

-Vivek H. Murthy, Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

"The structure of operations also encourages connection. Any employee can attend meetings of any department, including Zingerman's board meeting. A truck driver can help plan a menu, and a chef can he…"

-Vivek H. Murthy, Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

"The fact is, [University of Michigan organizational behavior professor Dr.] Wayne [Baker] said, most people do want to help. But that's not always intuitive. "We've shown that engaging in the process…"

-Vivek H. Murthy, Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

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

26. 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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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha

27. What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

By: Mona Hanna-Attisha

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis by Louise Curtis

28. A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis

By: Louise Curtis

3.97

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

29. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Rachel Pearson's No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic by Martina Scholtens

30. Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic

By: Martina Scholtens

4.45

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overloo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of The First Breath: How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile Lives by Olivia   Gordon

31. The First Breath: How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile Lives

By: Olivia Gordon

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

What happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby’s life don’t go as planned? How have … read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

18 Top audiobook books like No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine by Rachel Pearson

Transform Your Habits

Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

Michael J. Collins

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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

Lisa Sanders

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

Theresa Brown

3.50

Transform Your Habits

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

Cory Franklin

3.57

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5 best-selling adult books like Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic by Martina Scholtens

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Neglected: Scared, hungry and alone, Jamey craves affection

Cathy Glass

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

4.30

Transform Your Habits

An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May?

Cathy Glass

4.58

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