Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
By: Anthony Youn
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be a doctor? “I am a doctor.” Every year, thousands of medical school gradua…
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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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"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
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. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more
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5. 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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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. 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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8. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
By: Atul Gawande
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more
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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. 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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11. Miracles and Mayhem in the ER: Unbelievable True Stories from an Emergency Room Doctor
By: Brent Rock Russell
4.40
Format: 192 pages,
In Miracles and Mayhem in the ER, Dr. Brent Russell shares true-life stories of his early days as a… read more
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12. 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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13. Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic
By: Kevin Grange
3.67
Format: 220 pages,
A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emerg… read more
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14. 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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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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16. 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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"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
17. Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
By: Anthony Youn
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be a doctor? “I am a doctor.” Every year, thousands of medical school gradua… read more
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18. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- audiobook
19. I Survived: A True Story.
By: Victoria Cilliers
4.16
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more
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20. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
21. Holiday SOS: The life-saving adventures of a travelling doctor
By: Ben MacFarlane
4.48
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Who are you going to call if it all goes wrong on holiday?Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane. His job is to… read more
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"Laughter isn't the best medicine. Feeling that you're in safe hands is."-Ben MacFarlane, Holiday SOS: The life-saving adventures of a travelling doctor
22. The Removalist: On the Front Line of Death Care (Silent Siren #2)
By: Matthew Franklin Sias
4.27
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
“To be able to thrive in a field most are terrified of is a source of pride…To be in the presence o… read more
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23. Gas Man
By: Colin Black
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
10… 9… 8… 7… 6… That’s about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begi… read more
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24. Hard Roll: A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
By: Jon McCarthy
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
Experience the rush as an emergency medic details some of the most formative calls of his career in… read more
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25. 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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26. A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain
By: Imani Perry
4.08
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Audible Original A groundbreaking new work from National Book Award Winner, Imani Perry. Imani Pe… read more
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27. The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
By: Stephen Westaby
4.30
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the p… read more
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28. Rescue 911: Tales from a First Responder
By: Michael Morse
3.51
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
First responders often don’t tell stories, preferring to keep what happens at work private. Rescue … read more
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29. Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician (Silent Siren #1)
By: Matthew Franklin Sias
3.92
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
Paramedics save lives. Morticians bury their mistakes. A twenty-three-year veteran of emergency me… read more
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30. A Double Dose of Dilaudid (Real Stories from a Small-Town ER Book 1)
By: Kerry Hamm
3.92
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to a small-town Emergency Room in rural Ohio. While it's true our ER doesn't see the stabbi… read more
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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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