Just about to finish Complications...what else?

[juiceman311]

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What else do you guys reccomend? There was a whole thread with a list of books, but the search is disabled. Complications by Gawande is awesome, lookin for similar books.....

 

[angietron3000]

What else do you guys reccomend? There was a whole thread with a list of books, but the search is disabled. Complications by Gawande is awesome, lookin for similar books.....

I dunno if this is similar but right now I'm reading "Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers"
good book so far 👍

 

[Alex05]

Becoming a doctor by Melvin Kooner. Good luck.

 

[-Goose-]

Complications is the best book I've read in several years...

if your into surgery, read Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael Collins... its not quite as provocative or "deep" as complications, but is ten times more hilarious and very entertaining... its about a young doc going through his years as an ortho resident at the mayo clinic in rochester, minn... he also had like 27 kids or something... couldn't put it down.

 

[tigress]

Yeah Hot Lights, Cold Steel is good. I think he has like 12 kids.

But along the lines of Complications? Try reading Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes (I think the publisher might have named it 😛). It's by Robert M. Wachter and Kaveh Shojania and it's really good.

I also want to read that new one that I can't remember the name of about the healthcare system in the US. My library doesn't have it though. I forget the name. Critical something??

 

[titoincali]

Yeah Hot Lights, Cold Steel is good. I think he has like 12 kids.

But along the lines of Complications? Try reading Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes (I think the publisher might have named it 😛). It's by Robert M. Wachter and Kaveh Shojania and it's really good.

I also want to read that new one that I can't remember the name of about the healthcare system in the US. My library doesn't have it though. I forget the name. Critical something??

Critical Condition by Donald Bartlett

 

[PressingOn]

I finished "On Call" by Emily Transue a month ago. It's an easy read about her three year internal medicine residency. Not quite like "Complications" in that she focuses more on feelings and relationships with patients than the sort of medical detail that "Complications" does. Also, Ben Carson's "Gifted Hands" and the other books by him are also good. I read those when I was in high school and found them quite inspiring. 🙂

 

[-Goose-]

I finished "On Call" by Emily Transue a month ago. It's an easy read about her three year internal medicine residency. Not quite like "Complications" in that she focuses more on feelings and relationships with patients than the sort of medical detail that "Complications" does. Also, Ben Carson's "Gifted Hands" and the other books by him are also good. I read those when I was in high school and found them quite inspiring. 🙂

I don't know what it was, but I really did not like Transue's "On Call"... the style was choppy and just kind of weird... to each his/her own, though.

 

[silas2642]

Definitely definitely read Intern Blues... it's awesome. Gives you an idea of what we all have to look forward to.

 

[CuddlyKumquat]

I dunno if this is similar but right now I'm reading "Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers"
good book so far 👍

LOVED this book. the writer was hilarious in it

 

[doctorFred]

if you're looking for fiction, "the house of god" by samuel shem is the greatest medical novel ever written. period.

 

[IDforMe]

I dunno if this is similar but right now I'm reading "Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers"
good book so far 👍

A friend got me that one last year for Christmas. It is good.

Also, sounds like this may be somewhat different from what other people are suggesting, but I HIGHLY recommend "Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health", by Laurie Garrett. Definitely influenced my decision to go into medicine and public health... somebody has to do the dirty work...

 

[ERmed3eb]

A friend got me that one last year for Christmas. It is good.

Also, sounds like this may be somewhat different from what other people are suggesting, but I HIGHLY recommend "Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health", by Laurie Garrett. Definitely influenced my decision to go into medicine and public health... somebody has to do the dirty work...

An awesome book to read is called "When The Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery"

 

[unicorn06]

if you're looking for fiction, "the house of god" by samuel shem is the greatest medical novel ever written. period.

I totally agree. This book is my favorite, and it's supposedly quite accurate too.

 

[einnewt]

When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank Vertosick, Jr., M.D.
Great book about neurosurgery residency.

The House of God by Samuel Shem, M.D.
Absolutely fantastic classic (though unusual) take on residency training.

Emergency Doctor by Edward Ziegler and in cooperation with Lewis R. Goldfrank
Good depiction of busy ER. Goldfrank is Director of Emergency Services at Bellevue in NY

Year of the Intern by Robin Cook
Also a classic about residency, one of my favorites. Makes me so excited to be doc.


I don't know why I read all this books that show unequivocally how sh&%ty residency is (and generally how bad being a doc can be), but I want to do it all the more!

 

[einnewt]

Sorry about that repetition, I didn't want plow through 600 recs.

 

[keitaiKT]

Here is the list everyone came up with the last time this subject was discussed. I've read a couple from the list so far - I haven't been disappointed. 😀

1. The House of God
2. The Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen in Rhyme.
4. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
5. A Case of Need
6.Francis Conley- Walking out on the Boys
7.Sherwin B. Nuland- The Wisdom of the Body (also titled "How
We Live)
8.Sherwin B. Nuland- How We Die
9.The man who mistook his wife for a hat, by Oliver Sacks
10.The strange case of the walking cadaver, by nancy butcher
12.timeline, by michael crichton
13.The Intern Blues by Robert Marion, M.D.
14.Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim, M.D.
15. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Lori Alvord, MD
16. Health and Healing, Andrew Weil, MD
18. Darshak Sangavi, "A Map of the Child"
19.Terminal, Robin Cook
20. The Lost Art of Healing : Practicing Compassion in Medicine
by Bernard Lown
24. the elegant universe by brian greene
27. Walk On Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit by Michael Ruhlman
28. The Language of Cells: A Doctor and His Patients by Spencer Nadler
29. Becoming a Doctor by Melvin Konner
30. The Ditchdigger's Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton, MD
31. The Dressing Station by Jonathan Kaplan
32. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder
33. Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her, Dan Shapiro
34. Surviving the Extremes, A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance. Kenneth Kamler
35: Travels and/or Five Patients, by Michael Crichton
36: Driving mR. Albert, by Michael Paterniti.
37: On Doctoring, edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone.
38: The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
39: The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian, Md. Freeman
40. Letters to a Young Doctor
41: Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer's latest, following up #32
44. Kitchen Table Wisdom by Dr. Rachel Remen counsels cancer patients
45. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup -very good reference book and very informative
46. Tuesdays with Morrie
53. King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
54. A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student by Perri Klass
55. young "what my patients taught me" - great for anyone who wants to go to UW
56. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman (sp?)

 

[Gavanshir]

Here is the list everyone came up with the last time this subject was discussed. I've read a couple from the list so far - I haven't been disappointed. 😀

1. The House of God
2. The Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen in Rhyme.
4. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
5. A Case of Need
6.Francis Conley- Walking out on the Boys
7.Sherwin B. Nuland- The Wisdom of the Body (also titled "How
We Live)
8.Sherwin B. Nuland- How We Die
9.The man who mistook his wife for a hat, by Oliver Sacks
10.The strange case of the walking cadaver, by nancy butcher
12.timeline, by michael crichton
13.The Intern Blues by Robert Marion, M.D.
14.Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim, M.D.
15. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Lori Alvord, MD
16. Health and Healing, Andrew Weil, MD
18. Darshak Sangavi, "A Map of the Child"
19.Terminal, Robin Cook
20. The Lost Art of Healing : Practicing Compassion in Medicine
by Bernard Lown
24. the elegant universe by brian greene
27. Walk On Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit by Michael Ruhlman
28. The Language of Cells: A Doctor and His Patients by Spencer Nadler
29. Becoming a Doctor by Melvin Konner
30. The Ditchdigger's Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton, MD
31. The Dressing Station by Jonathan Kaplan
32. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder
33. Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her, Dan Shapiro
34. Surviving the Extremes, A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance. Kenneth Kamler
35: Travels and/or Five Patients, by Michael Crichton
36: Driving mR. Albert, by Michael Paterniti.
37: On Doctoring, edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone.
38: The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
39: The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian, Md. Freeman
40. Letters to a Young Doctor
41: Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer's latest, following up #32
44. Kitchen Table Wisdom by Dr. Rachel Remen counsels cancer patients
45. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup -very good reference book and very informative
46. Tuesdays with Morrie
53. King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
54. A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student by Perri Klass
55. young "what my patients taught me" - great for anyone who wants to go to UW
56. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman (sp?)

That has to be the most thorough list ever! Now the next step should be to rank them in popularity, or is that just stupid?

 

[Gavanshir]

Here is the list everyone came up with the last time this subject was discussed. I've read a couple from the list so far - I haven't been disappointed. 😀

1. The House of God
2. The Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen in Rhyme.
4. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
5. A Case of Need
6.Francis Conley- Walking out on the Boys
7.Sherwin B. Nuland- The Wisdom of the Body (also titled "How
We Live)
8.Sherwin B. Nuland- How We Die
9.The man who mistook his wife for a hat, by Oliver Sacks
10.The strange case of the walking cadaver, by nancy butcher
12.timeline, by michael crichton
13.The Intern Blues by Robert Marion, M.D.
14.Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim, M.D.
15. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Lori Alvord, MD
16. Health and Healing, Andrew Weil, MD
18. Darshak Sangavi, "A Map of the Child"
19.Terminal, Robin Cook
20. The Lost Art of Healing : Practicing Compassion in Medicine
by Bernard Lown
24. the elegant universe by brian greene
27. Walk On Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit by Michael Ruhlman
28. The Language of Cells: A Doctor and His Patients by Spencer Nadler
29. Becoming a Doctor by Melvin Konner
30. The Ditchdigger's Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton, MD
31. The Dressing Station by Jonathan Kaplan
32. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder
33. Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her, Dan Shapiro
34. Surviving the Extremes, A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance. Kenneth Kamler
35: Travels and/or Five Patients, by Michael Crichton
36: Driving mR. Albert, by Michael Paterniti.
37: On Doctoring, edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone.
38: The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
39: The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian, Md. Freeman
40. Letters to a Young Doctor
41: Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer's latest, following up #32
44. Kitchen Table Wisdom by Dr. Rachel Remen counsels cancer patients
45. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup -very good reference book and very informative
46. Tuesdays with Morrie
53. King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
54. A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student by Perri Klass
55. young "what my patients taught me" - great for anyone who wants to go to UW
56. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman (sp?)

I recently bought quite a popular one from amazon and its not on your list!
It's called "The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century". I havn't started reading it yet. I believe there is also an older version which is simply called "The Making of a Surgeon".

 

[swim2006]

If you are looking for a humorous easy ready....House Calls by Patch Adams is great

 

[volcanicglass]

"The Making of a Surgeon" by William Nolan. This book's a bit older but it's probably my favorite in the whole genre, written by a guy about his surgical internship & residency at bellevue.

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

The Manufacture of Madness, Pharmacocracy, and The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz