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Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors

10 best books like Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors (Brian Eule): How Doctors Think, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Inside Out, Woman 99, How Reading Changed My Life, Drowning With Others, Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse, The Things We Keep, The Pale-Faced Lie

How Doctors Think
AuthorJerome Groopman
ISBN0618610030
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
AuthorLisa Sanders
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
AuthorSandeep Jauhar
ISBN0374146594
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...
Inside Out
AuthorDemi Moore
ISBN0062049534
Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.

For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight—or the...
Woman 99
AuthorGreer Macallister
ISBN1492665339
A vivid historical thriller about a young woman whose quest to free her sister from an infamous insane asylum risks her sanity, her safety and her life

Charlotte Smith's future is planned to the last detail, and so was her sister's - until Phoebe became a disruption. When their parents commit...
How Reading Changed My Life
AuthorAnna Quindlen
ISBN0345422783
A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe...
Drowning With Others
AuthorLinda Keir
They have the perfect marriage. Did one of them kill to get it?

Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending...
Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse
AuthorEcho Heron
ISBN0804102511

Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse by Echo Heron was the first book about nurses I read after becoming a Registered Nurse. At the time i found it daunting...a seemingly impossible job. Echo Heron told the story with warmth and compassion but also in complete candor. She had done it, not because it...
The Things We Keep
AuthorSally Hepworth
ISBN1250051908
With honesty and true understanding, Sally Hepworth pens this poignant story of one of today's nightmares: early-onset Alzheimer's.

Anna Forster, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease at only thirty-eight years old, knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they...
The Pale-Faced Lie
AuthorDavid Crow
ISBN0997487178
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own...
Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency
AuthorMeghan MacLean Weir
ISBN1439189072
When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures,...
In the Name of Love and Other True Cases
AuthorAnn Rule
Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer.

Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense...
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
AuthorKatrina Firlik
ISBN1400063205
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,...
Hope Unseen: The Story of the U.S. Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer
AuthorScotty Smiley
ISBN1439186820
Hope Unseen challenges readers to question their doubts, not their beliefs, and depend upon God no matter what—the inspiring true story of “blind” faith.

A nervous glance from a man in a parked car. Muted instincts from a soldier on patrol. Violent destruction followed by total darkness....
Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
AuthorAnne Kreamer
ISBN0316166618
What prompted me to choose this book at the library? My age, I think, and an urge to somehow discover my genuine self. I do admire Anne Kreamer's bravery in making her vulnerable insecurities public in this book. Still, the title is misleading. Seriously, 50 percent of the book is about hair, rather than...
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
AuthorMira Jacob
ISBN0812994787
Spanning India in the 70s to New Mexico in the 80s to Seattle in the 90s, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past.

When brain surgeon Thomas Eapen decides to cut short a visit to his mother's home in India in 1979,...
Celine
AuthorPeter Heller
ISBN1524751065
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.

Working out of her jewel box of an apartment...
Vietnam: The Good Times, The Bad Times
AuthorArden P. Stenglein
The book you are about to read is a dramatic story of a Vietnam tour of duty written by a U.S. Marine veteran of South Vietnam. I am that Marine. The storyline centers on me and my particular field company, my battalion, and regiment. The writing tells, in depth, about my experiences, recollections, and...
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