Suggested Summer Reading

The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions by Esther M. Sternberg

 

 

 

Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Lifesaver by Arthur Allen

 

 

 

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

 

 

 

Doctors Who Followed Christ: 32 Biographies of Historic Physicians and Their Christian Faith by Dan Graves

 

 

 

Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer One Patient at a Time by Dan Levy, M.D. with Joel Patrick

 

 

 

Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly…The Cases that Have Baffled Doctors by Ann Reynolds and Kenneth Wapner

 

 

 

Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain – And it How it Changed the World by Carl Zimmer

 

 

 

The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

 

 

 

 

Patenting the sun

 

Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith

 

 

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Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit

 

 

 

The Medical Science of House, M.D. by Andrew Holtz

 

 

 

 

why people get sickWhy People Get Sick by Darian Leader and David Corfield

 

 

 

 

InheritanceInheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives and Our Lives Change Our Genes by Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD

 

 

 

 

CuriousCurious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Life Depends On It by Ian Leslie

 

 

 

 

PlaceboYou Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter by Dr. Joe Dispenza

 

 

 

 

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On Being a Doctor 3: Voices of Physicians and Patients by Christine Laine (ed.) and Michael A. Lacombe (ed.)

 

 

 

On being a doctor2On Being a Doctor 2: Voices of Physicians and Patients by Michael A. Lacombe

 

 

 

 

On Being a Doctor 1On Being a Doctor by Michael A. Lacombe

 

 

 

 

BEtterBetter: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

This is a very good book that covers a variety of topics. It would be a good book to read, no matter what health care field interests you.

 

 

How doctors thinkHow Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

 

 

 

 

Epidemic of absenceAn Epidemic of Absence by Moises Velasquez-Manoff

A review of the book can be found in the article, “A Messy, Exuberant Case Against Being Too Clean.

 

 

 

Letters to a young doctor  Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer

 

 

 

 

     Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing by Victoria Sweet