Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer
Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness by Rita Charon
Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia by Henry Jay Przybylo
- Letters by Oliver Sacks; Edited by Kate Edgar
- Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human by Guy Leschziner
- Why? Encyclopedia — Brilliant Answers to Baffling Questions
- Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt
- The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life by Dr. Rachel Clarke
- The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail by Lina Zeldovich
- Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz
- Telltale Hearts: A Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story By Dean-David Schillinger
- Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room By Paul Seward & Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases By Cory Franklin
- Cancer Simply Explained: What Is Cancer and What Can We Do Against It? By Dr. Visar Vela, Dr. Laurence Favet, Dr. Günther Spahn
- This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better by Dr. Karan Rajan
- The Body’s Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments By Paul Kimmel M.D.
- A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery By Lawrence Ingrassia
- Medicine through the Ages: From Acupuncture to Antibiotics (Technology through the Ages) by Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods
- Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response By Jeremy Norton
- Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything By Randi Hutter Epstein
- Uncharted — How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias by Edited by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks
- Virginia Wouldn’t Slow Down! The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention by Carrie A. Pearson, Nancy Carpenter (Illustrations)
- A Splendid Gift Barbara Elle Prisceaux
- Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden within Our Bodies Alice Roberts
- The Anatomists’ Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body Colin Salter
- Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us About How the Brain Works Marc Dingman
- All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience Jay Wellons
- Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
- Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail
- The Trauma Chronicles by Stephen Westaby
- Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist by Daniel Muñoz, James M. Dale
- This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor by Adam Kay
- The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ by Monty Lyman
- The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
- Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER by Jay Baruch
- Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane
- Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery by Paul Craddock
- Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith, Chris Frith, Christopher D. Frith, Alex Frith, Daniel Locke
- A History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies by by Kathy Petras, Ross Petras
- An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives by Matt Richtel
- Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years by Dr. Michael J. Collins
- The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals about Family, Heredity, and Scientific Discovery by Anne Skomorowsky
- A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain by Sara Manning Peskin
- The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan
- A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: Stories of Surgery, Clarity, & Grace by Bruce H. Campbell, MD FACS
- Understanding DNA Ancestry by Sheldon Krimsky
- Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
- Pump: A Natural History of the Heart By Bill Schutt
- The Beat of Life Reinhard Friedl
- The Mind’s Eye Oliver Sacks
- The Woman Who Swallowed a Toothbrush: And Other Bizarre Medical Cases Rob Myers
- Who Lives, Who Dies with Kidney Disease Mohammad Akmal, Vasundhara Raghavan
- A Surgeon’s Lessons, Learned and Lost John Raffensperger, MD
- When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
- Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries Lisa Sanders
- Neurology Rounds with the Maverick: Adventures with Patients from the Golden Age of Medicine Bernard Patten
- It is 7 am in the Cardiac ward Kamalendu (Kamal) Malaker
- Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon Kathy Magliato
- Operating Room Confidential: What Really Goes On When You Go Under Paul Whang
- Oh, Nurse!: One Man’s Journey Through the Nursing Life, a Personal Account of the Highs and Lows David Daniels
- The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the E.R. by Brian Goldman
- The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center by Charles R. Morris
- Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. by Julie Holland
- One Children’s Place: Inside a Children’s Hospital (Plume) by Lee Gutkind
- Fascinomas – Fascinating Medical Mysteries by Clifton K. Meador
- Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
- What Killed Jane Austen? And Other Medical Mysteries, Marvels, and Mayhem by George Biro
- Accidental Medical Discoveries: How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World by Robert W. Winters
- We Were There: Revelations from the Dallas Doctors Who Attended to JFK on November 22, 1963 by Allen Childs
- INTERMISSION, part deux: Mysterious Interludes — wherein Allyson reviews Mystery Books during her off-time between jobs.
- Radiologists at Work: Saving Lives with the Lights Off (X-Ray Visions Book 1) by Carolyn Jourdan
- A License to Heal by Steven Bentley, M.D.
- Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
- Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation’s ERs by Mark Brown
- The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Theresa Brown
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek M.D.
- The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital by Alexandra Robbins
- Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings by Pamela Nagami M.D.
- INTERMISSION: Mysterious Interludes — wherein Allyson reviews Mystery Books during her off-time between jobs.
- Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
- Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes by John Withington
- Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine by Clifford A Pickover
- Altered Destinies: Lives Changed by Genetic Flaws by William Stockton
- Coroner (The Coroner Series Book 1) by Thomas T. Noguchi and Joseph DiMona
- Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America
by Keith Wailoo, PhD
- The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
by Pamela Nagami M.D. and F. Gonzalez-Crussi
- Miracles and Mayhem in the ER: Unbelievable True Stories
by Brent Russell
- Four by Klawans
- Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today’s Medicine
- A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
- When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
- When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King
- When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
- Happy Accidents
- The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories
- True Medical Detective Stories
- The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington’s and the Making of a Genetic Disease
- The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
- The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine
- The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease & Stores from the Emergency Room
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know
- Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- Human Anatomy: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age
- When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: And Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body
- The Discovery of Insulin
- His Brother’s Keeper
- Post-Mortem: Solving History’s Great Medical Mysteries
- The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman
- The Bloodstream: The River of Life
- Blood and Guts
- Amazing Medical Stories
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