The following books, both fiction and non-fiction, offer a look at the culture of medicine. Click on a book cover to read our review. All are listed alphabetically by author.
For additional reading, see our annual Reading Lists for Compassionate Physicians and visit our Bookshop.org Gold Foundation shop.
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| If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face? by Alan Alda |
A History of the Present Illness by Gold Professor Louise Aronson |
What’s Left Out by Jay Baruch |
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| Talking to Your Doctor by Zackary Berger |
Alternative Medicine by Rafael Campo |
Heart Murmurs by Sharon Dobie |
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| Attending by Ronald Epstein |
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande |
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi |
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| Re-humanizing Medicine by David Kopacz |
Blood Lines by Paul McLean |
The Finest Traditions of My Calling by Abraham M. Nussbaum |
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| Vital Conversations by Dennis Rosen |
In the Hands of Doctors by Paul E. Stepansky |
God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet |
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| The Digital Doctor by Robert Wachter |
Bedside Manners by David Watts |