This Pulitzer-winning book traces the 5,000-year-old history of cancer, clinical case studies, and patient accounts. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancerįor all the advances that researchers have made in finding a cure of cancer, the biggest issue remains: the big C had a big head start. Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi penned this inspiring, ruminative, and hopeful (with a dash of depressing) memoir as he was dying from metastatic lung cancer. Here, Gawande reflects on what good intentions, well being, and quality of life really mean. In medical school, you’ll be taught to save, manage, and extend lives, often without a second thought to maximizing the minimum time a patient might have left. Al ful of accountas medica feld, fascinata and reade.īeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedsideįashioned after the Canterbury tales, Nuland’s ode to the doctor-patient relationship - one of the must-read books for medical students - asks anesthesiologists, heart surgeons, and PCPs for their most memorable stories. You know, because despite not having up to 11 years of medical training, patients have lived in their bodies x number of years and, you know, might know their bodies best. Have you ever been misdiagnosed or had an ailment go undiagnosed? Or have a doctor not hear you during the course of treatment? Groopman’s pleading book examines the how and why behind a doctor’s path to diagnosis and implores patients to advocate on their own behalf. Her empathetic approach gives future physicians a turn-the-tables view into the patient’s and family’s emotional sturm and drang. Sure, you can rattle off the five stages of grief – and it’s all thanks to Kübler-Ross’ 1970 groundbreaking classic. On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Familiesĭenial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. What do a spit take-inducing satire, a surgeon’s contemplative memoir on his own death, and a Pulitzer-winning history of cancer have in common? 1) They’re not assigned on your organic chemistry syllabus and 2) they made our list of must-read books for medical students.
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