Monday, December 11, 2017

Winter Break Reads for Aspiring Health Professionals

You undoubtedly read pages and pages of assigned readings for classes all semester long -
now it is time to read something fun,
just for you! 

If you are seeking book recommendations for aspiring healthcare professionals, check out our list below. 

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

2. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back -- Elizabeth Rosenthal, MD

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

4. Cutting for Stone -- Abraham Verghese, M.D.

5. The House of God -- Samuel Shem

6. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales -- Olivers Sacks, MD

7. Still Alice -- Lisa Genova 

8. When Breath Becomes Air -- Paul Kalanithi, M.D .

9. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down -- Anne Fadiman 

10. Black Man in a White Coat -- Damon Tweedy, M.D. 

11. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA -- Brenda Maddox

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

Tell us what you're reading on social media by using #PreHealtHoosRead!