Good Books

[It's lupus!]

I was hoping I might get recommendations on any good books for leisure reading about Anesthesiologists. I've read Counting Backward but was really hoping more than one exists. You could expand this selection to critical care or tangentially related reading. Just looking for good bedtime reading.

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[AdmiralChz]

You mean you don’t read Miller or Barash in bed? Would put me to sleep in minutes.

 

[It's lupus!]

You mean you don’t read Miller or Barash in bed? Would put me to sleep in minutes.

Haha. No. Just some casual reading of things less than academic.

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[pocafx]

just finished emperor of all maladies. it was about history of cancer not anesthesia. but was fun and interesting read

 

[psychbender]

Ether Day

 

[camkiss]

Not about anesthesia, but “when breath becomes air” is the best book written by a physician I’ve ever read.

 

[deleted162650]

Not about anesthesia, but “when breath becomes air” is the best book written by a physician I’ve ever read.

Better than Jurassic Park??

 

[It's lupus!]

Not about anesthesia, but “when breath becomes air” is the best book written by a physician I’ve ever read.

I actually just finished reading that one. It was fantastic. Definitely enjoyed that book.

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[spacegun]

Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Kevin Fong (Anesthesiology and Critical Care physician)
The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments by Claude Piantadosi (Pulmonary and Critical Care physician)
Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration by Claude Piantadosi (Pulmonary and Critical Care physician)

 

[It's lupus!]

Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Kevin Fong (Anesthesiology and Critical Care physician)
The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments by Claude Piantadosi (Pulmonary and Critical Care physician)
Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration by Claude Piantadosi (Pulmonary and Critical Care physician)

I've read the first one the other two I haven't. I'll check out the other two.

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[M1i]

Not about anesthesia, but “when breath becomes air” is the best book written by a physician I’ve ever read.

Do you know of any books that may be comparable to “when breath becomes air”. Just finished it and loved it. Was looking for something similar.

 

[It's lupus!]

Do you know of any books that may be comparable to “when breath becomes air”. Just finished it and loved it. Was looking for something similar.

That's a tall order. It isn't nearly the same style or anything but One Doctor was a fantastic read

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[deleted126335]

It is fiction, but Cutting for Stone was a good read.

 

[deleted50478]

Not about anesthesia, but “when breath becomes air” is the best book written by a physician I’ve ever read.

I read ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and it’s good, but ‘The Tennis Partner’ is better in my opinion. Those are the only two medical-related fiction books I recall reading.

 

[M1i]

That's a tall order. It isn't nearly the same style or anything but One Doctor was a fantastic read

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Thank you! Just started Intern Blues, but one doctor will be my next read!

 

[Painted]

I read ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and it’s good, but ‘The Tennis Partner’ is better in my opinion. Those are the only two medical-related fiction books I recall reading other than ‘ The House of God’ which I liked as a premed but it totally different than the other two.

When breath becomes air is not fiction. I was also going to recommend Cutting for Stone which is fiction written by an MD about an MD. The author of cutting for stone was friends with the author of when breath becomes air and wrote the forward for that book. Both from Stanford. Pauline Chen, a surgeon, wrote Final Exam about reflections on mortality.

 

[deleted50478]

When breath becomes air is not fiction. I was also going to recommend Cutting for Stone which is fiction written by an MD about an MD. The author of cutting for stone was friends with the author of when breath becomes air and wrote the forward for that book. Both from Stanford. Pauline Chen, a surgeon, wrote Final Exam about reflections on mortality.

True, true: autobiography

 

[camkiss]

Do you know of any books that may be comparable to “when breath becomes air”. Just finished it and loved it. Was looking for something similar.

Tuesdays With Morrie would be the next closest thing I’ve read. I think it’s worth reading as a physician.

 

[DeadSpace]

Enders Game. It's all a metaphor for residency.

 

[deleted162650]

Enders Game. It's all a metaphor for residency.