Summer Reads for Aspiring Health Professionals

You undoubtedly read pages and pages of assigned readings for classes all year long -- 

now it is time to read something fun,

just for you.

Check out our #PreHealthHoos recommendations!

 1. Make sure to pick up this year's Pre-Health Common Read!

    Black Man in a White Coat -- Damon Tweedy, MD

2. When Breath Becomes Air -- Paul Kalanithi, MD
    *2016 Pre-Health Common Read

3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -- Rebecca Skloot
    *2017 Pre-Health Common Read

4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Happens in the End -- Atul Gawande, MD

5. The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills -- David Ansell, MD, MPH

6. Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them -- 

    Randy Cristensen, MD

7. Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction -- Maria Szalavitz

8. Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity -- Ronald Epstein, M.D. 

9. Heart in the Right Place -- Carolyn Jourdan, JD

10. Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care --
     Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD

11. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved -- Kate Bowler, PhD

& for the Pre-Veterinary reader...

12. All My Patients Have Tales: Favorite Stories from a Vet's Practice -- Jeff Wells, DVM

13. The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes -- Lucy Spelman, DVM & Ted Mashima, DVM