Good medicine novels

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>i read most of these while in hospital, so now i'm recommending some:</p>

<p>How We Die by Sherwin Nuland*
How We Live by Sherwin Nuland
Complications by Atul Gawande*
The House of God by Samuel Shem
Becoming a Doctor by Melvin Konner
The Anatomy of Hope by Jerome Groopman
The Doctor's Plague by Sherwin Nuland
A Map of the Child by Darshak Sanghavi
Gifted Hands by Benjamin Carson
A Not Entirely Benign Procedure by Perri Klass
Second Opinions by Jerome Groopman
Learning to Play God by Robert Marion</p>

<p>*my favourites so far</p>

<p>what would you recommend?</p>

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<p>Not a novel exactly or entirely devoted to medicine itself, but Stiff by Mary Roach is great!</p>

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<p>I 2nd Gifted Hands! Such a good book! Ben Carson is amazing!
The Open Heart Surgery is good too by Dr. Lester Sauvage
and
Emergency Doctor by Edward Ziegler</p>

<p>lightfish,
Which one was your favorite? I've read that Complications and House of God were great. I think I might also read White Coat by Ellen L. Rothman.</p>

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<p>Singular Intamices - Danielle OFri</p>

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<p>oh yeah!! i've read White Coat and Singular Intimacies too. Singular Intmacies was great...I love how she describes everything so humanely. my mom took it from me to read so I forgot to list it.</p>

<p>whoknows - my favourite is definitely Complications and How We Die and also Singular Intimacies now that I remember hehe</p>

<p>The House of God freaked me out a little at first, because of its mind-manipulative nature.</p>

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<p>Ahh- the House of God-------very funny read-----soooo true.</p>

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<p>I'll definitely have to read Complications and House of God then! So many good books!</p>

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<p>The Intern Blues is great too</p>

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<p>good list:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2ZSZDPIPGB8TT/104-1942093-3514323?%5Fencoding=UTF8%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2ZSZDPIPGB8TT/104-1942093-3514323?%5Fencoding=UTF8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>cool thanks for the list.</p>

<p>i found Intern Blues to be rather boring...probably because their recording style reflects a lot of their tiredness. so i never finished it.</p>

<p>When The Air Hits Your Brain by Frank Vertosick is also really good. one of my second level favourites.</p>

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<p>Additionally, anything by Dr. Robin Cook are excellent. Almost all address some ethical dispute in the medical field today. </p>

<p>Some of them are:
Vital Signs
Coma
The Year of the Intern
Vector
Outbreak
Mutation
Mortal Fear
Harmful Intent</p>

<p>(I have read all of these, so I can attest to the fact that they are a great read.)</p>

<p>Also, if there are some topics in medicine that disturb you (cloning, mutations, genetics, conspiracy theories, you might need to stay away from some of these books.</p>

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<p>While this one is about a groups of nurses instead of med students/doctors, I enjoyed " A Nurse's Story: life, death, and in-between in an intensive care unit", by Tilda Shalof.</p>

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<p>some magazines that have cool medicine columns:</p>

<p>Discover (Vital Signs)
The New Yorker (Annals of Medicine)
Scientific American (only sometimes...but genetics is a really hot topic now in there)
The New York Times (Health section's CASES are awesome)</p>

<p>if anybody knows more... i'm interested hehe :D</p>

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<p>i think Erich Segal's 'Doctors' is good... it shows the lives of 5 uber smart students of Harvard Medical School... and the horrors of med school...</p>