The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center
8 best books like The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center (Charles R. Morris): Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, How Doctors Think, In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope, Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist, Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries, People of the ER, Living and Dying in Brick City
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...
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...
| 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....
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
| Author | Rana Awdish |
| ISBN | 1250119219 |
A first-person account from a young critical care physician describes how toward the end of her medical training she suddenly became a patient fighting for her own life, revealing how her experiences exposed her to flaws in today's care standards and how to better embrace the emotional bond between...
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...
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
| Author | Lisa Sanders |
| ISBN | 0593136632 |
As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections...
Standing in the trauma room of an emergency department is like standing at ground zero of a nuclear reaction, only it’s not radiation that is released—but stories. Stories that are told and retold, sometimes just until the end of the shift, but sometimes for decades.
A survivor of domestic...
Living and Dying in Brick City
| Author | Sampson Davis |
| ISBN | 1400069947 |
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving
Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to...
