Why medicine?

: And 500 Other Questions for the Medical School and

Residency Interviews Sujay Kansagra, M.D.
Everything I learned in Medical School: Besides All The Book Stuff Sujay
Kansagra, M.D.
Baby Doctor: A Pediatricians Training Perri Klass, M.D.
Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse Echo Heron
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosugery Frank Vertosick
Jr., M.D.
The End of Illness David Agus, M.D.
Monday Mornings: A Novel Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives
Against All Odds Sanjay Gupta
Complications: A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande
Better: A Surgeons Notes on Performance Atul Gawande
The Making of a Surgeon William Nolen
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American
Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Anne Fadiman
The Neuroscience of Sleep Robert Stickgold and Matthew P. Walker
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson, M.D.
Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart
Donald McRae
For the Love of Babies: One Doctors Stories About Life in the Neonatal ICU
Sue Hall, M.D.
The Ultimate Guidebook For Getting Into Medical School Chad Rudnick,
M.D.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha
Mukherjee
Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande
Placebo Effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health and disease
Fabrizio Benedetti
The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
Mimi Guarneri
Heart Matters: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon Kathy Magliato, M.D.
White Coat: Becoming A Doctor At Harvard Medical School Ellen
Rothman
Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine Regina
Morantz-Sanchez
What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors
Kevin M. Takakuwa, Nick Rubashkin, Karen E. Herzig and Joycelyn Elders
Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor James
Feinstein
Final Exam: A Surgeons Reflections on Mortality (Vintage) Pauline Chen
The House of God Samuel Shem
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists Personal Journey Jill Bolte
Taylor, Ph.D.
The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine Bernard
Lown
The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart Stephen Amidon
The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
Robert Marion
My Own Country: A Doctors Story Abraham Verghese
Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprahs Book Club) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Sampson
Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Lisa Frazier
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Lisa Sanders
How Doctors Think Jerome Groopman
Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the ComplicatedLife
Behind the O.R. Doors Paul Ruggieri, M.D.
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear Seth
Mnookin
Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School
Experience: By Students, for Students Robert Miller, Dan Bissell, and
Harold Friedman