Hospitals


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
The Women
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
Clans of the Alphane Moon
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
You're in Good Paws
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Clean
Suicide Notes
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
The Bell Jar
Future Widow by Jenny LiskOwn Your Care by Jeanne  LeeWhen Evening Comes by Christine AndreaeSort of Forever by Sally WarnerOn Living by Kerry Egan
Hospice
19 books — 18 voters

Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody MoezziKasey & Ivy by Alison        HughesМатера вам не наймичка, або Чому діти — це прекрасно... by Катя БльосткаToo Young for Cancer by Katie   ColemanJust Babies by Paul Bloom
Hospital Bracelets
7 books — 2 voters
Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenInside the O'Briens by Lisa GenovaThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Medical Literature
83 books — 14 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootDoctors by Erich SegalCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseStill Alice by Lisa GenovaWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Best Books with a Medical Setting.
403 books — 197 voters
Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenTainted Shadows by Kendrick SimsDoctors in Hell by Janet E. Morris
Evil Hospitals and Asylums
92 books — 138 voters

Atul Gawande
The most important talent may be the talent for practice itself.
Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Hospitals are wonderful places for saving lives, but they're less effective as places where people heal, physically and mentally. Not the least of the issues is the fat that they never really leave you alone. Beyond the beeping of the machines and the general hum of a hospital all around you, there was a constant parade of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, X-ray technicians, and orderlies, and I was forever being wheeled down two floors to have yet another set of X-rays taken. Beyond worrying I' ...more
Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

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