1. The House of God
2. The Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen in Rhyme.
3. The Hot Zone
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
11.Complications, By: Atul Gawande
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
17. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
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
21. My own country by Abraham Verghese
22. the da vinci code by dan brown
23. john adams by david mccullough
24. the elegant universe by brian greene
25. middlesex by jeffrey eugenides
26. Demon in the Freezer, by Richard Preston
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, who is actually a Harvard trained MD. He talks alot about his own process of self discovery, especially in relation to dealing with patients and the healthcare system. His compasion is obvious, and his predictions for how medicine would turn out (this was written back in the 70's) are pretty prophetic. Plus, he's an entertaining writer.
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😀riving mR. Albert, by Michael Paterniti. About the strange but true travels of Einstein's brain, his actual brain, after he died.
37: On Doctoring, edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone. A bunch of excerpts, poems, essays, and short stories on the Art, not the Science, of medicine. Inspirational to pick up for a quick "Why am I doing this" pick-me-up. Also good for sitting next to the toilet.
Non-medical but AWESOME:
38: The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon. Won the pulitzer, so unbeleiveably entertaining. Especially cool if you liked comics as a kid.
39:
The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian, Md. Freeman