Suggested Reads on Life in Medical School

• A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As a Medical Student, Perri Klass, MD
• Becoming a Doctor:  From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share their Experiences, Edited by Lee Gutkind
• Becoming a Doctor, Melvin Konner, MD
• Everything I Learned in Medical School (Besides All the Book Stuff), Sujay Kansagra, MD
• Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human, Revised Edition, Keith Russell Ablow, MD
• The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Staying Who You Are While Becoming Who You Want to Be, Jeremy Spiegel, MD
• On Becoming a Doctor:  Everything You Need to Know About Medical School, Residency, Specialization and Practice, Tania Heller, MD
• The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death, Susan Pories, MD, Sachin H. Jain, and Gordon Harper, MD
• What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student’s Journey, Audrey Young, MD
• White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School, Ellen Lerner Rothman, MD

Suggested Reads on Life as a Health Professional

• African-American Medical Pioneers, Charles H. Epps, Jr., MD, Davis G. Johnson, PhD, and Audrey L. Vaughan, MS
• A Mindful Life (donated by Jeffrey Chen ’13), Vivekanand Palavali, MD
• A Not Entirely Benign Procedure:  Four Years as a Medical Student, Revised Edition, Perri Klass, MD
• Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them, Randy Christensen, MD with Rene Denfeld
• The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness, Jerome Groopman, MD
• Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine’s Tiniest Miracles, Edward Humes
• Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande, MD
• Blind Eye, James B. Stewart
• Body of Work: Meditations on Morality from the Human Anatomy Lab, Christine Montross
• The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America, Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
• The Desire to Heal, Rafael Campo
• Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine, Eric J. Cassell
• Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, Lisa Sanders, MD
• Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality, Pauline W. Chen
• First, Do No Harm. Lisa Belkin
• Gesundheit! Patch Adams, MD
• Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders, David Morley
• Hope in Hell:  Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders, Dan Bortolotti
• Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids, Julie Salamon
• Hot Lights, Cold Steel:  Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years, Michael J. Collins, MD 
• How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman, MD
• How We Die:  Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, Sherwin B. Nuland
• The Human Side of Medicine: Learning What it’s Like to be a Patient and What it’s Like to be a Physician, Laurence A. Savett, MD
• Iconoclast:  Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning, Thomas Neville Bonner
• Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emergency Cancer Epidemic, Julie Livingston
• Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine, Danielle Ofri, MD
• Kill as Few Patients as Possible:  And Fifty-Six Other Essays on How to Be the World’s Best Doctor, Oscar London, MD, WBD
• Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal, Rachel Naomi Remen MD
• The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery, Wendy Moore
• Letters to a Young Doctor, Richard Selzer
• Life After Medical School, Leonard Laster, MD
• Living and Dying in Brick City:  An E.R. Doctor Returns Home, Sampson Davis
• Love and Modern Medicine, Perri Klass
• Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors, Brian Eule
• Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles. Bruce K. Young ’59, MD, and Amy Zavatto
• My Grandfather’s Blessings:  Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging. Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
• My Own Country. Abraham Verghese, MD
• My Own Medicine: A Doctor’s Life as a Patient. Geoffrey Kurland, MD
• The Pact:  Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream, Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins & Rameck Hunt
• On Being a Doctor, Michael A. LaCombe, MD
• On Being a Doctor 2: Voices of Physicians and Patients, Michael A. LaCombe, MD
• On Call in Hell:  A Doctor’s Iraq War Story, CDR. Richard Jadick, with Thomas Hayden
• The Real Life of a Pediatrician, Perri Klass, MD
• The Real Life of an Internist, Mark D. Tyler-Lloyd, MD, MPH
• The Scalpel and The Silver Bear. Lori Arviso Alvord, MD
• Second Sight:  Views From an Eye Doctor’s Odyssey. David Paton, MD
• Singular Intimacies, Danielle Ofri, MD
• Something for the Pain: One Doctor’s Account of Life and Death in the ER, Paul Austin, MD
• The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside, Sherwin B. Nuland
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997, Anne Fadiman
• Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness, Tracy Kidder
• Talking With Doctors, David Newman
• Tell Me Where It Hurts:  A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon, Dr. Nick Trout
• The Tennis Partner, Abraham Varghese
• Three 19th-Century Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Walker, and Sarah Loguen Fraser, Mary K. LeClaire, Justin D. White and Susan Keeter
• Time to Heal, Kenneth M. Ludmerer
• Treatment Kind and Fair:  Letters to a Young Doctor, Perri Klass, MD
• To Repair the World:  Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation, Paul Farmer
• What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors, Edited by Kevin M. Takakuwa, Nick Rubashkin, Karen E. Herzig
• Women in Medicine: Getting in, Growing and Advancing, Janet Bickel
• The Woman in the Surgeon’s Body, Joan Cassell