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I've paul kalianthi's when breath becomes air and I liked it. I'm going to read Being Mortal by Atul Gawde as soon as it comes in the mail. What other books do you guys suggest reading?
 
"The Healing of America" - really interesting and lots of good things in it to talk about at interviews
 
In addition to the usual books from Gawande, Mukherjee, et al. I would add:

And The Band Played On - Randy Shilts
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Far From the Tree - Andrew Solomon
Cancer Ward - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Mount Misery - Samuel Shem
The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
 
Doctored by Sandeep Jauhar was one of my absolute favorites.

Also, Reinventing American Healthcare by Ezequiel Emmanuel also provides a great overview of our healthcare system under Obamacare.
 
House of God - Samuel Shem: The classic intern year book. It is the source of a ton of quotes/jokes/references that you will see here, on TV, and elsewhere. Think Catch-22 but with medical interns instead of bomber pilots. Some weird sex stuff.

Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese: Medical/coming of age novel about a surgeon in post-colonial Ethiopia. It is a good novel, with a good bit of surgical scenes. The author is a surgeon. Think The Power of One but with surgery instead of boxing (and a different country).

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot: Non-fictional story of the woman behind one of the most important cell lines and how that came to be. I was surprised and humbled when I read this book to find that I had sold those cell lines at a previous job, without ever knowing or wondering where they came from. There is an HBO series now. I haven't watched it, so I don't know how it compares to the book.


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I like religion and books that deal with medicine
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Gifted Hands by Ben Carson is one of my all time favorite books. Anything by Atul Gawande is really good. I'm about to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as soon as my kindle ebook library hold comes through.
 
I enjoyed
- What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
- Any book (Better, Complications, Checklist Manifesto, Being Mortal) by Atul Gawande
- Hot Lights Cold Steel by Michael Collins
 
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I've paul kalianthi's when breath becomes air and I liked it. I'm going to read Being Mortal by Atul Gawde as soon as it comes in the mail. What other books do you guys suggest reading?
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By the Bedside of the Patient: Nortin Hadler
 
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