I finished Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air last month, and I immediately wanted to read more stories about people’s experiences with the medical profession as a clinician. The good, the bad, the ugly, I’m just interested in reading more about what goes on within these settings.
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*What The Eyes Don’t See*
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande.
Five Days at Memorial
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
*The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collison of Two Cultures* by Anne (1997). It’s about a Hmong girl and her family and their experiences with the US medical system and the cultural issues at play that caused problems with her treatment. It‘s old now, but when it was first published I know it was used as a text in medical schools to teach doctors about intercultural competency in the practice of medicine.
The emperor of all maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee was excellent. It won the Pulitzer Prize.
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese.