Book list! (And medical school advice)
This is an intro to great books on medicine.
If you want to read something fun, informative about medicine, I’ve put together a short list of recommended books. But also, for those who are applying to medical school, this summer reading list should be a fun place to start — and also should help you with your medical school essay and interview.
Recommended by Youtuber: Singul4r1ty
The house of god” by Samuel Shem
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These are some further books recommended by Youtuber Jason Pitcher. He wrote:
“Planning a Life in Medicine” by The Princeton Review. This book is one of the basics that discuss the steps towards making it into medical school and fully details the areas one should focus on to prepare for such a venture.
“Med School Confidential” by Robert H. Miller & Daniel M. Bissell,M.D. This book, too, details and outlines the steps for an undergraduate to take to make it into medical school and succeed as a medical student.
“The Intern Blues” by Robert Marion, M.D. This particular piece details three interns (post-med school) and the trials and tribulations they face in the pediatric wards as they work towards surviving their first year as doctors.
“Emergency Doctor” by Edward Ziegler. A work that describes life and experiences as an emergency physician.
“Becoming a Doctor” Melvin Konner, M.D. This is probably one of my favorites as it shows the reader the journey to becoming a doctor as a 33 year old man who already had created a life for himself, yet decides he wants more than the life he has worked so hard to achieve.
Now.. I know most of these do not give advice as to how to make it into medical school or even through it, but I love these books because they show the reader exactly what you can expect once you reach the point that you are required to actually put to show the information and knowledge you have required in medical school.
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Books recommended by Youtuber Gracieemma:
Anything by Sir William Osler, as well as
Anatomy of An Illness by norman cosuins
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Book recommended by DaFoe604:
Med School Confidential
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Book recommended by Homersimpson889:
Diet for A New America by John Robbins
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Books Recommended by Anonymous Youtuber:
1)Bloodletting and miraculous cures by Vincent Lam
2) The best american science writing 2006 by a series of authors editor Atul
Gawande
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dtyall 77 writes, ”
Why Not?” by Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres. It doesn’t apply directly to medicine, but is in the same category as “blink” or “freakonomics.” It deals with the issue of innovation, and teaching yourself how to solve problems and come up with new ideas.”
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A Youtube also recommends:
Erich Segal, Doctors (1988);
if i get to five” by dr. fred epstein
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im a senior in highschool and aspire to be a doctor .. im thinking dermatology.. anyways u r very inspiring and this list of books sound great. I need to start reading again lol
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Might I also recomend “Survival of the sickest” by Dr. Moalem. It’s about how some of the genetic diseases we see today were actually beneficial for survival during hard times in the past such as plagues and the ice age.
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Well,from where i study,we have to buy some books,but i’d say that 60-70% of our learnings are on notes,lectures,practice labs and stuff like that.
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A pretty legit one actually…. yeah a lot of students don’t buy them I’ve been told. They share or study mainly from lecture.
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No,you pay more than 150,000 USD on medical school but you don’t buy the books.What kind of question is that ?…..
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Thanks for sharing this great list: it includes some of my recent favorites! Please consider adding “Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” which was written by a Harvard Medical School Research Fellow and also won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pen award, among others
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Check out “Birth As An American Rite of Passage” by anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd.
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Thank you so much for your videos. I am a junior undergrad studying for the MCAT right now. I am always looking for new sources of consistently valuable and insightful information on the issues facing contemporary medicine, getting into medical school, and surviving the whole process.
It is refreshing to find someone offering such quality resources to the rest of us. Thank you for your efforts and keep it up!
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I think I won’t hesitate to read Sherwin Nauland’s book ‘Doctors’. I have read his book ‘How we live’, I still have to read ‘How we die’