White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
9 best books like White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Carl Elliott): But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, The House of God, Death Note: Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0399184120 |
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close...
| 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...
Death Note: Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
There's a serial killer loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast. For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene. Each of these clues, it seems, is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder.
Onto the scene comes L, the...
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...
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
| Author | Liz Murray |
| ISBN | 0786868910 |
In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.
Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and...
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| ISBN | 0375701478 |
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and...
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
| Author | Kevin Hazzard |
| ISBN | 1501110837 |
A former paramedic’s visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta’s mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.
In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from...
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
| Author | Dr. Gabor Maté |
| ISBN | 0676977405 |
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treating the drug addicts of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside with sympathy in his heart and legislative reform in mind can't be easy. But Maté never judges. His book is a powerful call-to-arms,...
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
| Author | Kalee Thompson |
| ISBN | 0061766291 |
Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at...
