Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice
10 best books like Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice (Emily R. Transue): The Reckless Oath We Made, Royal Holiday, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, The House of God, Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years, Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Fifteen, This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood, Top Secret, The Assassination Option
The Reckless Oath We Made
| Author | Bryn Greenwood |
| ISBN | 0525541845 |
Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss.
Zee may not be a princess, but...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and “rising star in the romance genre” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling new novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance.
Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of...
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...
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
| Author | Michael J. Collins |
| ISBN | 0312352697 |
When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo...
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...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0380728044 |
It seems too good to be true. The most popular boy in school has asked Jane out -- and she's never even dated before. Stan is tall and good-looking, friendly and hard-working -- everything Jane ever dreamed of. But is she ready for this?
Suppose her parents won't let her go? What if she's nervous...
This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood
| Author | Michelle Au |
| ISBN | 0446538248 |
Michelle Au started medical school armed only with a surfeit of idealism, a handful of old ER episodes for reference, and some vague notion about "helping people."
This Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of how she grew up and became a real doctor.
It's a no-holds-barred account of what a modern...
| Author | W.E.B. Griffin |
| ISBN | 0399171231 |
From the #1 New York Times�bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War—and a different breed of warrior.
In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually...
In Top Secret, W.E.B. Griffin introduced a remarkable new cast of heroes as they found themselves on the front lines of an entirely different kind of war. Now, these men and women are going to find out what they’ve really gotten themselves into.
James Cronley thought he had done well—he didn’t...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0060533013 |
First Date
Fifteen-year-old Jean is astonished when a handsome Johnny whirls her round the dance floor. She's never given much thought to boys before; now Johnny is all that's on her mind. Finally she finds the courage to invite him to a dance. But the excitement of a new dress and a scheme to take Johnny's...
| Author | Ellen Feldman |
| ISBN | 0812992717 |
Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship, and illuminates a transformational moment in American history.
Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose lives...
| Author | Rosie Price |
| ISBN | 1787301389 |
When Kate Quaile meets Max Rippon in the first week of university, a life-changing friendship begins. Over the next four years, the two become inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy circles behind. But knowing Max means knowing his family: the wealthy Rippons, all...
The Five Love Languages of Children
| Author | Gary Chapman |
| ISBN | 1881273652 |
This book is brilliant! Beyond the fact that this is a book about how to love your child in the way that he or she best identifies and recognizes as love...because that alone is a smart and beautiful undertaking, this book begins by introducing the concept of learning to speak your child's love language...
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...
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
| Author | Terrence Holt |
| ISBN | 1863956905 |
A collection of essays about life as a surgical intern.
Terrence Holt, whose In the Valley of the Kings was hailed as a “work of genius” (New York Times) and made Amazon’s Top Ten Short Story Collections of the year, brings a writer’s eye and a doctor’s touch to this powerful account...
The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness
| Author | Maddie Dawson |
| ISBN | 1531830609 |
Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family…whether they want to or not.
Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She’s spent her life looking into strangers’ faces, fantasizing they’re related to her, and...
Backbone: The Life and Game-Changing Career of a Spinal Neurosurgeon
| Author | Volker K H Sonntag |
| ISBN | 1945962755 |
On a beautiful spring morning in 1989, neurosurgeon and spine expert Volker Sonntag was just finishing rounds at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. At that same moment sixteen miles away, a hard-charging boy named TJ veered his bike into the path of a speeding pickup truck. The impact all...
