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When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 698 times as medical)
avg rating 4.36 — 446,579 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 663 times as medical)
avg rating 4.44 — 140,980 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 635 times as medical)
avg rating 4.07 — 613,129 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 557 times as medical)
avg rating 4.05 — 180,102 ratings — published 2003
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 519 times as medical)
avg rating 4.28 — 85,394 ratings — published 2010
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 496 times as medical)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,788 ratings — published 2002
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as medical)
avg rating 4.05 — 174,049 ratings — published 1985
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as medical)
avg rating 4.24 — 28,198 ratings — published 2007
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as medical)
avg rating 4.05 — 176,032 ratings — published 2012
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as medical)
avg rating 4.13 — 100,757 ratings — published 1994
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as medical)
avg rating 4.26 — 26,774 ratings — published 2014
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as medical)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,842 ratings — published 1997
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as medical)
avg rating 4.29 — 343,937 ratings — published 2009
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 51,779 ratings — published 2009
How Doctors Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,612 ratings — published 2007
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 303,750 ratings — published 2007
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,575 ratings — published 1978
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as medical)
avg rating 3.98 — 31,551 ratings — published 2004
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as medical)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,721 ratings — published 2014
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as medical)
avg rating 3.87 — 45,088 ratings — published 2006
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,052 ratings — published 1996
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 169 times as medical)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,678 ratings — published 2009
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 77,240 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as medical)
avg rating 3.90 — 26,448 ratings — published 2013
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as medical)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,637 ratings — published 2005
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 35,365 ratings — published 2016
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 42,169 ratings — published 2013
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as medical)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,007 ratings — published 2007
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as medical)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,476 ratings — published 2006
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as medical)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,676 ratings — published 2017
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as medical)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,367 ratings — published 2015
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as medical)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,188 ratings — published 2004
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as medical)
avg rating 4.04 — 34,973 ratings — published 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as medical)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,734,908 ratings — published 2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as medical)
avg rating 4.39 — 13,793 ratings — published 2012
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as medical)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,218 ratings — published 2014
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as medical)
avg rating 4.15 — 61,112 ratings — published 2002
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as medical)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,091 ratings — published 2006
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as medical)
avg rating 4.16 — 39,592 ratings — published 2019
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as medical)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,740 ratings — published 2012
Coma (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as medical)
avg rating 3.88 — 50,438 ratings — published 1977
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as medical)
avg rating 4.31 — 39,590 ratings — published 2019
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as medical)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,081,413 ratings — published 2004
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,962 ratings — published 2018
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as medical)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,880 ratings — published 1973
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as medical)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,844 ratings — published 2007
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as medical)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,572 ratings — published 1987
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as medical)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,477 ratings — published 1994
The Family that Couldn't Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as medical)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,321 ratings — published 2006
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as medical)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,250 ratings — published 2014
“We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn.
"Arthur," I say.
The car doesn't yield.
"Arthur," I say.
He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper.
"Arthur, our turn was back there.”
―
"Arthur," I say.
The car doesn't yield.
"Arthur," I say.
He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper.
"Arthur, our turn was back there.”
―
“It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages him to do his best.”
― The Ruby Knight
― The Ruby Knight
