<p>So I'm looking to buy medical books relevant to the field Interested in, so far I found a book that I like called 'Clinical Neuroanatomy' by Richard Snell, has anyone ever read it? and your opinion on it would be helpful.</p>
<p>Besides that book, which other books/textbooks are a must have? particularly helpful for basic medicine and Neurology/Neurosurgery/Neuroanatomy.</p>
<p>I'm thinking for my pre med I'll major in BioChemistry, so does anyone know and good books on the subject? </p>
<p>Also human Anatomy books would probably be helpful too!</p>
<p>Pick some interesting novels instead, much more helpful. There is no way under the sun that HS student will understand real medical books. D. said that they had to learn so much vocabulary specifically at the beginning of neuro block. Why are you doing that? Are you planning to remember this material for the Board test at the end of the second year of Med. School? Med. students start studying for this test 6 - 7 weeks before the exam day. Relax and Enjoy your HS and UG days, they will never repeat.</p>
<p>Read Oliver sacks if you’re interested in neuro stuff. I also recommend house of god</p>
<p>As Miami said. These are not “medical books.” Sacks is nonfiction but very much geared towards lay people and HoG is a novel about life as a resident at what is supposed to be Beth Israel or Brigham in Boston. The character Dr. Cox on scrubs is based off of the main attending in the book.</p>
<p>Cross edited with below but thought of another idea: Atul Gawande.</p>
<p>@Miami I’m not preparing early or anything like that, I just want to get a better understanding of the medical field, and I can comprehend Clinical Neuroanatomy fairly well, I’m much more educated than the average High-School student.</p>
<p>Either way, which novels would you recommend? I don’t care for most fiction. So something to learn the abbreviations and to get a better grasp of what medicine requires would be lovely.</p>
<p>(Also I plan on going to college in a year)</p>
<p>@IWBB I’ll look into House of God, it seems interesting. heh.</p>
<p>Go out, have fun with friends, and enjoy college. There is a lot more to life than trying to get ahead in your medical career. If you want to read something, go to a bookstore and pick out whatever you find interesting.</p>
<p>I do find this interesting, that’s why I want recommendations, I just moved back to the US from Thailand, so no friends, and I’m awaiting a pending job, so I have literally nothing to do for over a month…</p>
<p>So recommendations please, heh.</p>
<p>If medical memoirs are your thing, I would recommend Complications, Better, or In Stitches. The first two are by Atul Gawande, and the latter is by Anthony Youn.</p>
<p>D2 (neuroscience grad) has enjoyed all of the Oliver Sacks non-fiction books. Interesting factoid–Sacks is face-blind.</p>
<p>D1 and D2 also liked Atul Gawande, House of God (depressing, but supposedly based on a true story—not at all like Scrubs version) and its sequel, How We Do Harm by Otis Webb Brawley, Final Exam by Paul Chen, When the Air Hits Your Brain:Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank Vertosick.</p>
<p>My son, who usually doesn’t enjoy reading for reading sake, LOVED the Atul Gawande books that Kristen recommended a couple of years ago. I bought them all, and he read them all twice!</p>
<p>"Either way, which novels would you recommend? "
-I cannot recommend any novels. I stopped reading for entertainment few decades ago. You read while you enjoy it, read a lot, it goes away after certain age and I happened to be ancient. Do not read for any kind of education, read for fun, as I said it will not last forever. You will have plenty ob books and many more than you can imagine to read about medicine in Med. School, stacks some feet high. Do not get tired of it ahead of the time!!!</p>
<p>As mom2 alluded to, I enjoyed the Gawande books a lot and definitely recommend them to anyone interested in medicine. They’re almost essay anthologies, which makes them easy to read (in other words: a collection of discrete short stories that aren’t typically related to each other). I also liked his Checklist Manifesto, and if you like that one/are interested in quality improvement/patient safety initiatives, Pronovost has an interesting/engaging book on the topic.</p>
<p>@Miami, ugh, sorry, I said novels but I meant books. </p>
<p>I picked up a few textbooks, Gale’s encyclopedia of medicine, and Gale’s encyclopedia of Neurological disorders, I like them both so far.</p>
<p>Oh, and that link looks helpful, thanks Kdog.</p>
<p>See if your library has any Asimov books on Bio topics. They will be dated, but interesting and comprehensive. Steven J. Gould is a great author. His 'The Mismeasure of Man" would interest you.</p>
<p>“Phantoms in the Brain”, by V.S. Ramachandran.</p>
<p>It’s my favorite book on neurology, and a must-have for anyone interested in the subject.</p>
<p>I thought of Asimov books being fiction and on a child’s side more or less, they did not seem to be of any science, rather the wild imagination. They might be interesting, but so old…back in my days</p>
<p>BTW, my D. has enjoyed her college book on “Abnormal Psychology”. That would not be any hard reading book, it is not at all the level of Med. School. So, why don’t you just try any college texts called “Abnormal Psychology”. She enjoyed so much that she did not even sell it.</p>
<p>depending on how abnormal you like your psych, I find video with interviews of patients to be much, much more powerful depictions of mental illness than anything you’ll ever read. Even “low brow” things like MTV’s True Life series or TLC’s shows like “My Strange Addiction.”</p>
<p>^Well D. has volunteered in Mental facility before, she has seen lots of things “in person”. Yes, anybody can volunteer to get familiar, she enjoyed this experience also.</p>