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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference
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Stephen Trzeciak (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
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Bud Shaw (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 937 ratings
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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4.07 avg rating — 5,898 ratings
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
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4.08 avg rating — 1,305 ratings
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Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match
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4.04 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
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Suzanne Koven (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
score: 94,
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Womb With a View: Tales from the Delivery, Emergency and Operating Rooms
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Rebecca Levy-Gantt (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 93,
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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4.23 avg rating — 1,402,749 ratings
score: 92,
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How to Be an Antiracist
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 118,956 ratings
score: 91,
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 423,080 ratings
score: 90,
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.20 avg rating — 88,239 ratings
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The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
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Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
score: 88,
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 235,817 ratings
score: 87,
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
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4.25 avg rating — 42,278 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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4.20 avg rating — 88,469 ratings
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Movement Disorders: Unforgettable Cases and Lessons from the Bedside
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Hubert H. Fernandez (editor)
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 84,
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Bed Number Ten
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4.10 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Anxiety: A Short History
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3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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One Base at a Time: How I Survived PTSD and Found My Field of Dreams
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4.32 avg rating — 79 ratings
score: 81,
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The Doctor, His Patient and The Illness
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4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 80,
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Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential
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3.89 avg rating — 833 ratings
score: 79,
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On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression
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Kathy Cronkite (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 129 ratings
score: 78,
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Stop Physician Burnout: What to Do When Working Harder Isn't Working
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4.26 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 77,
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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
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Zack McDermott (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
score: 76,
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Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
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4.01 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else
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Holly B. Rogers (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 726 ratings
score: 74,
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Kate Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 182,013 ratings
score: 73,
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50 Years in the OR: True Stories of Life, Loss, and Laughter While Giving Anesthesia
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4.32 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 796,942 ratings
score: 71,
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The Boy Who Felt No Pain
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4.11 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Memory Lessons: A Doctor's Story
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3.89 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
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4.23 avg rating — 6,904 ratings
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The Soul of the Physician: Doctors Speaking About Passion, Resilience, and Hope
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 67,
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The Resilient Physician: Effective Emotional Management for Doctors and Their Medical Organizations
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
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3.35 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER
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Paul Austin (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
score: 64,
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Searching for the Best Medicine: The Life and Times of a Doctor and Patient: The Life and Times of a Doctor and Patient
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery
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3.78 avg rating — 501 ratings
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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Janice P. Nimura (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 6,001 ratings
score: 61,
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Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon
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4.04 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
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Michael J. Collins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 4,990 ratings
score: 59,
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Living and Dying in Brick City: Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.
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3.88 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.93 avg rating — 293,697 ratings
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
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4.22 avg rating — 26,970 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 52,095 ratings
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The Year They Tried to Kill Me : Surviving a Surgical Internship Even If the Patients Don't
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4.31 avg rating — 874 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 85,129 ratings
score: 53,
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Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
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Sandeep Jauhar (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 4,596 ratings
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Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
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Sandeep Jauhar (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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Everything I Learned in Medical School: Besides All the Book Stuff
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3.82 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Confessions of an American Doctor: A true story of greed, ego and loss of ethics
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Max Kepler (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
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On Call: A Rural Surgeon's Story
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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
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Matt McCarthy (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 7,560 ratings
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Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine
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4.20 avg rating — 284 ratings
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The Wisdom of the Body: Discovering the Human Spirit
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,297 ratings
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Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
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3.75 avg rating — 2,307 ratings
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A Life That Matters: Transforming Faces, Renewing Lives
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality
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3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Ten Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders
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4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
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Damon Tweedy (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 5,464 ratings
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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
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4.35 avg rating — 11,591 ratings
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Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
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Life After Medical School: 32 Doctors Describe How They Shaped Their Medical Careers
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Leonard Laster (Editor)
3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
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3.86 avg rating — 1,589 ratings
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100 Notable Names from General Practice
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Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery
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Heart Matters: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
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Katrina Firlik (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 3,922 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
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You What?!: Humorous Stories, Cautionary Tales, and Unexpected Insights About A Career in Medicine
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John Chase (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Ew! Ew! Ew! (Real Stories from a Small-Town ER Book 5)
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Kerry Hamm (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
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Kill as Few Patients as Possible
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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The Doctor Stories
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The House of God
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