Pre-Med Reading List

[cadingcading]

I found this on the web if anyone is interested:

http://ccc.byu.edu/healthpro/readingList.php

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[ChrisMW]

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik is a great view at medicine through the eyes of one of the very feew female neurosurgeons.
and
Better By Atul Gawande is a great book for anyone wanting to achieve something even outside of medicine.

 

[Jolie South]

I've said it before.

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

not a book about medicine, but inspiring, uplifting, and very funny. Also, it speaks volumes about doing everything you can to achieve your goals, but not stomping on everyone along the way.

 

[mitl]

Here's a great list I found on one of the forums

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?)

 

[HotGhettoMess]

^ cool 3-year bump bro.


Fun book, good toilet read too:

 

[lorenzomicron]

I would also add:

A very short introduction to History of Medicine

A very short introduction to Medical Ethics

 

[deleted307836]

I've said it before.

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

not a book about medicine, but inspiring, uplifting, and very funny. Also, it speaks volumes about doing everything you can to achieve your goals, but not stomping on everyone along the way.

This is one of my favorite books of all time! And you capsulated one of its major themes perfectly. I read it years ago and it has stayed with me ever since...

 

[bobsmith]

Here's a great list I found on one of the forums

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 like how all these books are at least somewhat related to medicine/health in some way...and then there's The Elegant Universe, a book about string theory

 

[LizzyM]

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 - Richard Selzer
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?)

57. Forgive and Remember Managing Medical Failure - Charles Bosk
58. The Lassa Ward - Ross I. Donaldson
59. The Lazarus Case Life and Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care - John Lantos
60. The Knife Man The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery - Wendy Moore
61 Not All of Us Are Saints, A Doctor's Journey with the Poor - David Hilfiker
61. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
62. A Way of Life - William Osler (inspirational, very short, can be read in one sitting, a million copies available through used book dealers)

 

[Dannyw]

Here's a great list I found on one of the forums

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?)

The Soul of Medicine by Sherwin Nuland was also a good book.

 

[Wiingy]

I like how all these books are at least somewhat related to medicine/health in some way...and then there's The Elegant Universe, a book about string theory

That, and Crichton's Timeline, a book about researchers traveling back in time to medieval France to help them make a super accurate archaeological theme park.

 

[mitl]

That, and Crichton's Timeline, a book about researchers traveling back in time to medieval France to help them make a super accurate archaeological theme park.

As I said I found the list did not compose it, However some of my personal fav reads are...

Classic Cases in Medical Ethics, Gregory Pence
A PhD is Not Enough, Peter Feibelman
House of God, Samuel Shem
Doctor Stories, Carlos Williams
Who Shall Live?, Victor Fuchs
My Own Country, Abraham Verghese
Confessions of a Knife, Richard Selzer
When the Air Hits Your Brain, Frank Vertosick

Also in other reading material

Science Magazine (goes more in depth than SA)
Scientific America (easy read)
Journal of Neuroscience (Its hard to get through)
NEJM (I just read a few sections, its too dense for me personally)

 

[Wiingy]

As I said I found the list did not compose it, However some of my personal fav reads are...

Classic Cases in Medical Ethics, Gregory Pence
A PhD is Not Enough, Peter Feibelman
House of God, Samuel Shem
Doctor Stories, Carlos Williams
Who Shall Live?, Victor Fuchs
My Own Country, Abraham Verghese
Confessions of a Knife, Richard Selzer
When the Air Hits Your Brain, Frank Vertosick

Also in other reading material

Science Magazine (goes more in depth than SA)
Scientific America (easy read)
Journal of Neuroscience (Its hard to get through)
NEJM (I just read a few sections, its too dense for me personally)

Sorry, sarcasm is sort of my default setting... I'll add some medically-related books that I've really enjoyed though.

The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World, CJ Peters
The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager
The Great Influenza, John Barry
The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
The Coming Plague, Laurie Garret
The Constant Gardener, John LeCarre

Sort of an infectious disease junkie...

 

[Pisiform]

$*#t MY Dad Says by Justin Halpern is AWESOME
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I have the E-book in PDF, if anyone wants, I can email you guys

 

[somepremedkid]

I'd recommend How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D.

 

[Dianyla]

1. The House of God

Can't imagine why that one didn't make the BYU list.

45. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup -very good reference book and very informative

 

[familyaerospace]

I like how all these books are at least somewhat related to medicine/health in some way...and then there's The Elegant Universe, a book about string theory

I read the Elegant Universe along with many other physics/astronomy books. I think reading things about physics keeps your mind open to new things and hopefully gives you a sense of awe.