Any good non-texbook books?

[DocVirk]

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Okay, so this is going to sound incredibly nerdy, but I love to read. I've read a couple decent non-textbook medical books lately, and was wondering if anyone else had any ideas.

Some of the recent medical stuff I've read and liked include:

Emergency Doctor- Edward Ziegler
Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine- Julie Fenster
Rotations- Robert Marion
Complications- Atul Gawande
The man who mistook his wife for a hat- Oliver Sacks

Any ideas?

Thanks

By the way, I'm a third (almost 4th) year and I'm probably going into EM.

 

[domer621]

Definitely check out "House of God" if you haven't read it yet!

 

[Ashers]

The Making of a Surgeon by William Nolen

My dad gave it to me, so I'd know what he had to go through before the 80 hour work week. It was a good read.

 

[Top Gun]

Hot Lights, Cold Steel- by Michael J. Collins, MD. Tells about the author's four-year residency in orthopedics. Very interesting. I couldn't put it down.

M*A*S*H- by Richard Hooker. Although fiction, it was partially based on the author's experiences as a surgeon during the Korean War. Lot of cool stuff about surgery during the Korean War. Also very good for a laugh.

 

[throckmorton]

Check out Emergency and The Man with the Iron Tatoo, I enjoyed both.

 

[vtucci]

War Hospital by Sherri Fink was great.

 

[drfunktacular]

I would highly recommend The Dressing Station and Contact Wounds, both by Jonathan Kaplan.

 

[HarryRosenMD]

Hi...

I just recently finished A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Absolutely fantastic. He definitely did his homework for this one... as he reviews the evolution of all the major sciences, from Astronomy to Physics to Botany to Geology and on. Really great. Check it out on itunes.

 

[ArcherM2]

If you like Complications, check out Atul Gawande's newest "Better." It was as enthralling as Complications. I really liked the way it was set up into three sections and the afterword gives excellent direction useful for all young physicians.

 

[LadyGrey]

Steven Johnson's Ghost Map is about the cholera epidemic in London and the origins of epidemiology. It starts to wander off into unrelated and uninteresting stuff at the very end, but most of it is good if you like medical history. In a similar vein is John Barry's The Great Influenza, which is a fascinating story, though awkwardly written at times. (No, probably not going into ID, why do you ask? 😉)

Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think is a very interesting book, although he comes across as a bit of a pompous ***. He seemed to mention his Harvard credentials on every other page.

 

[mfreema1]

Love in the Time of Cholera