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When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 190 times as med)
avg rating 4.41 — 860,995 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as med)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,517 ratings — published 2014
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 151 times as med)
avg rating 4.39 — 346,711 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as med)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,221 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as med)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,088 ratings — published 1985
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as med)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,796 ratings — published 2014
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as med)
avg rating 4.28 — 53,753 ratings — published 2002
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as med)
avg rating 4.24 — 38,206 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as med)
avg rating 4.14 — 833,903 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as med)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,670 ratings — published 2003
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as med)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,989 ratings — published 1978
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as med)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,533 ratings — published 2007
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as med)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,419 ratings — published 1997
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as med)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,667 ratings — published 2018
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as med)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,795 ratings — published 2009
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as med)
avg rating 4.33 — 314,465 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as med)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,789 ratings — published 2019
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as med)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,551 ratings — published 2016
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as med)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,182 ratings — published 2009
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as med)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,721 ratings — published 2003
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as med)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,272 ratings — published 1996
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as med)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,721 ratings — published 2013
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as med)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,230 ratings — published 2017
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as med)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,890 ratings — published 2015
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as med)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,422 ratings — published 2006
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as med)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,400 ratings — published 2005
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as med)
avg rating 4.11 — 73,106 ratings — published 2019
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as med)
avg rating 4.31 — 311,720 ratings — published 2025
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as med)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,116 ratings — published 2017
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as med)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,666 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as med)
avg rating 4.34 — 441,183 ratings — published 2009
The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as med)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,616 ratings — published 1989
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as med)
avg rating 4.08 — 58,616 ratings — published 2014
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as med)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,542 ratings — published 1994
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as med)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,699 ratings — published 2007
The Beauty in Breaking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as med)
avg rating 3.82 — 33,521 ratings — published 2020
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as med)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,681 ratings — published 2015
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as med)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,746 ratings — published 2022
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as med)
avg rating 4.53 — 16,093 ratings — published 2019
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
by (shelved 17 times as med)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,393 ratings — published 2015
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as med)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,081 ratings — published 1994
Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as med)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,682 ratings — published 2009
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as med)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,835 ratings — published 1976
Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as med)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,294 ratings — published 2017
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as med)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,064 ratings — published 2018
Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as med)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,313 ratings — published 2019
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as med)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,381 ratings — published 2017
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as med)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,768 ratings — published 2007
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as med)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,526 ratings — published 2017
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as med)
avg rating 3.93 — 26,012 ratings — published 2012
