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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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4.39 avg rating — 340,321 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 822,787 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 252,239 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.36 avg rating — 235,672 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
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4.41 avg rating — 841,254 ratings
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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4.04 avg rating — 77,023 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 224,686 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 246,546 ratings
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Still Alice
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4.33 avg rating — 365,199 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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3.98 avg rating — 78,933 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 43,218 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 53,355 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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4.31 avg rating — 103,528 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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4.09 avg rating — 241,912 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 10,781 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 117,451 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.21 avg rating — 90,088 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.02 avg rating — 38,021 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.21 avg rating — 90,620 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 14,465 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.34 avg rating — 57,543 ratings
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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4.24 avg rating — 37,867 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 52,698 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,285 ratings
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Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
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4.11 avg rating — 72,546 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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4.27 avg rating — 86,673 ratings
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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
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4.53 avg rating — 15,763 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 28,741 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 436,124 ratings
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
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4.32 avg rating — 50,464 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.71 avg rating — 13,277 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.94 avg rating — 75,947 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 124,512 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 45,243 ratings
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Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
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3.96 avg rating — 9,091 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,979 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 57,392 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,827 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 33,206 ratings
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
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3.96 avg rating — 14,666 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 41,004 ratings
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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
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4.12 avg rating — 7,808 ratings
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
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4.25 avg rating — 44,080 ratings
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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4.08 avg rating — 57,597 ratings
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Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
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3.73 avg rating — 4,684 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 42,310 ratings
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Gray's Anatomy
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4.31 avg rating — 3,931 ratings
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The House of God
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3.83 avg rating — 29,465 ratings
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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4.33 avg rating — 302,525 ratings
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The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,330 ratings
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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4.32 avg rating — 43,612 ratings
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How Doctors Think
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3.93 avg rating — 13,473 ratings
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Hallucinations
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3.93 avg rating — 25,749 ratings
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Awakenings
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4.09 avg rating — 14,482 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.92 avg rating — 33,246 ratings
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
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4.29 avg rating — 8,471 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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4.07 avg rating — 46,963 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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4.07 avg rating — 4,088 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.30 avg rating — 23,732 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.25 avg rating — 88,932 ratings
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How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
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4.07 avg rating — 9,465 ratings
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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
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4.35 avg rating — 12,121 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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4.09 avg rating — 9,458 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,263 ratings
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On the Move: A Life
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4.03 avg rating — 21,620 ratings
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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4.19 avg rating — 22,897 ratings
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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4.31 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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4.27 avg rating — 20,854 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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4.25 avg rating — 14,059 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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4.22 avg rating — 32,939 ratings
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A Country Doctor's Notebook
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4.29 avg rating — 25,566 ratings
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
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4.17 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
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The Mind's Eye
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3.93 avg rating — 14,021 ratings
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
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4.23 avg rating — 13,524 ratings
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
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4.16 avg rating — 5,096 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.10 avg rating — 5,952 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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4.40 avg rating — 287,194 ratings
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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3.94 avg rating — 12,131 ratings
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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3.93 avg rating — 6,629 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
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4.15 avg rating — 18,604 ratings
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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4.07 avg rating — 5,823 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,698 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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4.43 avg rating — 10,544 ratings
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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4.27 avg rating — 9,068 ratings
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
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4.26 avg rating — 7,816 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.15 avg rating — 193,611 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars
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4.15 avg rating — 24,191 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 6,112 ratings
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
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3.92 avg rating — 8,571 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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4.06 avg rating — 87,549 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,813 ratings
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On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
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3.90 avg rating — 2,377 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.88 avg rating — 12,149 ratings
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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3.85 avg rating — 5,875 ratings
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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
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4.12 avg rating — 6,024 ratings
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
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3.79 avg rating — 3,932 ratings
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Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor
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4.08 avg rating — 6,058 ratings
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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4.07 avg rating — 4,268 ratings
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
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3.89 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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Atlas of Human Anatomy
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4.51 avg rating — 3,825 ratings
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