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The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
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My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
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Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
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The Youngest Science
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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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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Cutting for Stone
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