Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
10 best books like Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon (Michael J. Collins): Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, The House of God, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery, How Doctors Think, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases and the Mystery of Medicine, Trauma Room Two, On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0312421702 |
A year or more ago, I mistakenly placed a review for Gawande's book Better under this title. I have fixed the mix up, and I have now read Complications.
Gawande is pure pleasure to read. His writing is fluid and full of germane examples as he addresses big issues like error and incompetence as well...
| Author | Samuel Shem |
| ISBN | 0385337388 |
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know.
Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in...
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0805082115 |
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors...
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
| Author | Frank T. Vertosick Jr. |
"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us."
--Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles
Rule One for the neurologist in residence: "You ain't never the same when the air hits your brain." In this...
| Author | Jerome Groopman |
| ISBN | 0618610030 |
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences....
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
The experience of being ill can...
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
| Author | Sandeep Jauhar |
| ISBN | 0374146594 |
Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency--and especially the first year, called internship--is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours...
One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases and the Mystery of Medicine
| Author | Brendan Reilly |
| ISBN | 1476726299 |
An epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustrations, Reilly...
In every hospital emergency department there is a room reserved for trauma. It is a place where life and death meet. A place where some families celebrate the most improbable of victories while others face the most devastating of losses. A place where what matters the most in this life is revealed.
...
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
| Author | Emily R. Transue |
| ISBN | 0312324847 |
On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating...
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital’s cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical...
What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
| Author | Audrey Young |
| ISBN | 1570613966 |
Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very...
The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
| Author | Robert Marion |
| ISBN | 0060937092 |
While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human...
| Author | Carl Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0226983358 |
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day.
When Death...
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
| Author | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| ISBN | 1476784841 |
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over...
Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time!: The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon
In 1976, Paul Waymack began chronicling his experience as a third-year medical student, and for the next 20 years, he kept a journal filled with crazy stories of unusual patients, maladies, and international espionage. Some of them, he’s the first to admit, seem unbelievable--like chasing a naked...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
| Author | Ben Carson |
| ISBN | 0310214696 |
Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will transplace you into the operating room to witness...
Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist
In the tradition of Scott Turow’s One L and Atul Gawande’s Better comes a real-time, real-life chronicle from an impassioned young doctor on the front lines of high-stakes cardiology.
It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The...
Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
| Author | Michael Ruhlman |
| ISBN | 0142004111 |
Described by one surgeon as “soul-crushing, diamond-making stress,” surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivating look at the extraordinary skill and dangerous politics of critical...
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
| Author | Katrina Firlik |
| ISBN | 1400063205 |
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe,...
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
| Author | Janice Hudson |
| ISBN | 1552095738 |
Trauma junkies are people who feed on danger and stress. They do their best work under pressure. Janice Hudson was an adrenaline-charged emergency room nurse in a San Francisco-area hospital when a friend told her about CALSTAR, a fledgling helicopter ambulance service with an opening for a flight...
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
| Author | Matt McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0804138656 |
In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of mastery...
Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
| Author | Paul A. Ruggieri |
| ISBN | 0425245152 |
As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes,...
Gutter Medicine: Twenty-six Years as a Firefighter Paramedic
"My career as a firefighter/paramedic stretched from 1974 to 2000 when were inventing EMS as we went along. These are stories from those years on the street. That place I named so long ago, the other reality that exists just outside most people’s everyday lives. It is a place that seems to exist parallel...
Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
| Author | Bud Shaw |
| ISBN | 0147515335 |
For readers of Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon and Atul Gawande's Better -- a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery’s most demanding fields
The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl...
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
| Author | Sandeep Jauhar |
| ISBN | 0374141398 |
Doctored is the shocking follow-up to Intern, Sandeep Jauhar’s widely praised chronicle of the harsh realities of a hospital residency. Now the director of the Heart Failure Program at a Long Island hospital, Jauhar uses his own story as a scalpel to lay open the American health-care system.
The...
Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs in our rapidly dwindling arsenal. This trial serves as the backdrop...
White Coat: Becoming A Doctor At Harvard Medical School
| Author | Ellen Lerner Rothman |
| ISBN | 0688175899 |
In White Coat, Ellen Rothman offers a vivid account of her four years at one of the best medical schools in the country, and opens the infamously closed door between patient and doctor. Touching on today's most important medical issues -- such as HMOs, AIDS, and assisted suicide -- the author navigates...
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
| Author | Stephen Westaby |
| ISBN | 0008196761 |
An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he’s worked on.Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon’s shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon...
