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This is Going to Hurt 96%

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by Adam Kay 2017

4.40

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The Shift

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Four patients, twelve hours: one nurse's shift reveals the invisible work that keeps people alive.

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The Shift 95%

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by Theresa Brown 2015

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🏥 Hospital Nursing 📝 Nursing Memoir 💙 Emotional Labor ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🫂 Bedside Care

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by Louise Curtis 2020

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🏥 Emergency Medicine 🩺 Nursing Memoirs 🦠 Pandemic Frontline 🔥 Healthcare Burnout 💔 Vicarious Trauma

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A Thousand Naked Strangers 93%

A failed salesman joins EMS on impulse, knowing zero medicine. Atlanta's streets teach the rest.

by Kevin Hazzard 2016

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🚑 Emergency Medicine 🚨 First Responder Memoir 😈 Dark Humor 💀 Witnessing Death 🔥 Occupational Burnout

Doctored

by Sandeep Jauhar • 2014

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When the Air Hits Your Brain 93%

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What happens after the ambulance doors close: ER nurses tell the stories they can't forget.

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by James Patterson 2021

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by Ricardo Nuila • 2020

America treats patients as revenue streams. One Houston hospital proves there is another way.

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The People's Hospital 92%

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by Ricardo Nuila 2020

4.38

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by Rachel Clarke • 2017

Britain's most beloved public service is failing. A junior doctor shows you why, from the inside.

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Your Life in My Hands 92%

Britain's most beloved public service is failing. A junior doctor shows you why, from the inside.

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Do No Harm 92%

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by Jenny Lawson • 2012

Taxidermy, panic attacks, and corporate HR: one woman's messy, hilarious survival manual.

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Let's Pretend This Never Happened Summary

Let's Pretend This Never Happened 92%

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by Jenny Lawson 2012

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🏥 General Practice 📋 Nhs Memoirs 🌿 Holistic Medicine 🔄 Integrative Medicine 💔 Trauma And Healing

What Seems to Be the Problem? 92%

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4.18

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🏥 General Practice 📋 Nhs Memoirs 🌿 Holistic Medicine 🔄 Integrative Medicine 💔 Trauma And Healing

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Twelve organs, twelve revelations: a physician's tour through the body's unseen interior.

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The Unseen Body 92%

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by Jonathan Reisman 2021

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Replaceable You 91%

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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life 91%

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by Georgia Pritchett 2021

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Compassion isn't soft: the data shows it cuts costs, heals faster, and takes just forty seconds.

4.05

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Compassionomics 91%

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by Stephen Trzeciak 2019

4.05

652 ratings

🏥 Patient Care 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🔥 Physician Burnout 🧠 Compassion Science 💬 Patient Communication

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Between what medicine knows and what it does, the stubborn details that close the gap.

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Better 91%

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by Atul Gawande 2007

4.25

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🩺 Surgical Memoir ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🪖 Battlefield Medicine 🤰 Childbirth Practices 📈 Improvement Science

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Every Deep-Drawn Breath 91%

ICUs save the body but break the mind. A doctor's proof that survival is not the whole story.

by Wes Ely 2021

4.35

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Psychiatry is exiled from mainstream medicine by design. A doctor's memoir of the human cost.

4.23

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🩺 Medical Education 😵 Physician Burnout 🧠 Mind-Body Dualism 🏥 Stigma In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality

Facing the Unseen 91%

Psychiatry is exiled from mainstream medicine by design. A doctor's memoir of the human cost.

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4.23

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🩺 Medical Education 😵 Physician Burnout 🧠 Mind-Body Dualism 🏥 Stigma In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality

This Book May Save Your Life

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Your body is a masterpiece of near-fatal design. The practical fixes for its worst flaws.

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This Book May Save Your Life 91%

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Her anxiety has a name, a personality, and terrible timing. These are its greatest hits.

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Me vs Brain 91%

Her anxiety has a name, a personality, and terrible timing. These are its greatest hits.

by Hayley Morris 2023

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Already Toast

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Her husband's cancer made her an unpaid nurse. The system was counting on it.

3.92

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🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

Already Toast 91%

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by Kate Washington 2021

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666 ratings

🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

Elderhood

by Louise Aronson • 2019

A geriatrician's diagnosis: ageism is the last tolerated prejudice, right in your doctor's office.

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Elderhood 91%

A geriatrician's diagnosis: ageism is the last tolerated prejudice, right in your doctor's office.

by Louise Aronson 2019

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🩺 Geriatric Medicine 🏥 Ageism In Healthcare 💊 Medicalization Of Aging ✊ Anti-Ageism 📖 Narrative Medicine

The In-Between

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A patient asks for a slice of cake. A hospice nurse learns the secret the dying know.

4.49

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The In-Between 91%

A patient asks for a slice of cake. A hospice nurse learns the secret the dying know.

by Hadley Vlahos 2023

4.49

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🏥 End-Of-Life Care ✍️ Nursing Memoirs 👻 Deathbed Visions 🕊️ Death Acceptance ✨ Afterlife Beliefs

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

by Maria Bamford • 2023

Every group she joined to feel better was a cult: recovery, Hollywood, even her family.

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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult 91%

Every group she joined to feel better was a cult: recovery, Hollywood, even her family.

by Maria Bamford 2023

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🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 😈 Dark Humor 🗣️ Confessional Memoir 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🔄 Recovery Narratives

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by Victoria Sweet • 2012

Time and observation healed patients at America’s last almshouse in ways modern medicine can’t.

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God's Hotel 91%

Time and observation healed patients at America’s last almshouse in ways modern medicine can’t.

by Victoria Sweet 2012

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🏥 Hospital Memoir 🕰️ Long-Term Care 👩‍⚕️ Doctor-Patient Relationship 🙏 Spiritual Healing 📋 Healthcare Bureaucracy

Furiously Happy

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When despair says forever, fight back with taxidermy, defiant joy, and inappropriate laughter.

3.89

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🧠 Mental Illness Memoir ✨ Defiant Joy 💜 Radical Self-Acceptance 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🎙️ Confessional Humor

Furiously Happy 90%

When despair says forever, fight back with taxidermy, defiant joy, and inappropriate laughter.

by Jenny Lawson 2015

3.89

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🧠 Mental Illness Memoir ✨ Defiant Joy 💜 Radical Self-Acceptance 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🎙️ Confessional Humor

The Inner Consultation

by Roger Neighbour • 2015

When the voice in your head goes quiet, the patient finally gets heard. A consultation method.

4.02

🩺 Clinical Communication 💬 Patient-Centered Care 🧘 Mindful Practice 🪞 Reflective Practice 💆 Clinician Wellbeing

The Inner Consultation 90%

When the voice in your head goes quiet, the patient finally gets heard. A consultation method.

by Roger Neighbour 2015

4.02

46 ratings

🩺 Clinical Communication 💬 Patient-Centered Care 🧘 Mindful Practice 🪞 Reflective Practice 💆 Clinician Wellbeing

Hi, Anxiety

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A trembling hand extended: one journalist's messy memoir of anxiety behind the social media smiles.

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Hi, Anxiety 90%

A trembling hand extended: one journalist's messy memoir of anxiety behind the social media smiles.

by Kat Kinsman 2016

3.64

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📖 Anxiety Memoir 💬 Mental Health Stigma 😂 Humor As Coping 🛠️ Coping Strategies 🧒 Childhood Influences

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by Tania Heller • 2009

A decade of training, six figures of debt, and one question to answer before you begin.

3.66

220

📋 Pre-Med Guidance 🏥 Medical Training 📚 Medical School Survival 🩺 Residency Preparation 🔬 Medical Specialties

On Becoming a Doctor 90%

A decade of training, six figures of debt, and one question to answer before you begin.

by Tania Heller 2009

3.66

220 ratings

📋 Pre-Med Guidance 🏥 Medical Training 📚 Medical School Survival 🩺 Residency Preparation 🔬 Medical Specialties

The Anatomy of a Calling

by Lissa Rankin • 2015

A physician's body broke under her perfect career. The prescription: honor the calling you fled.

3.90

484

🩺 Medical Memoir 🔭 Finding Purpose ⚔️ Hero's Journey 💡 Inner Guidance 🌿 Integrative Medicine

The Anatomy of a Calling 90%

A physician's body broke under her perfect career. The prescription: honor the calling you fled.

by Lissa Rankin 2015

3.90

484 ratings

🩺 Medical Memoir 🔭 Finding Purpose ⚔️ Hero's Journey 💡 Inner Guidance 🌿 Integrative Medicine

My Next Breath

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Heart rate: 18. Collapsed lung. Broken ribs. Forty-five minutes of manual breathing on ice.

4.15

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🏔️ Survival Memoirs 💫 Near-Death Experiences 🏛️ Modern Stoicism ⚔️ Warrior Mindset 🌬️ Conscious Breathing

My Next Breath 90%

Heart rate: 18. Collapsed lung. Broken ribs. Forty-five minutes of manual breathing on ice.

by Jeremy Renner 2025

4.15

42k+ ratings

🏔️ Survival Memoirs 💫 Near-Death Experiences 🏛️ Modern Stoicism ⚔️ Warrior Mindset 🌬️ Conscious Breathing

How to Murder Your Life

by Cat Marnell • 2017

Beauty editor at Condé Nast. Adderall, cocaine, and PCP. The story she wrote between binges.

3.88

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🖤 Addiction Memoir 👗 Fashion Journalism 💀 Self-Destruction ⚡ Dark Comedy 💄 Beauty Industry

How to Murder Your Life 90%

Beauty editor at Condé Nast. Adderall, cocaine, and PCP. The story she wrote between binges.

by Cat Marnell 2017

3.88

21k+ ratings

🖤 Addiction Memoir 👗 Fashion Journalism 💀 Self-Destruction ⚡ Dark Comedy 💄 Beauty Industry

Wild Rescues

by Kevin Grange • 2021

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4.20

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Wild Rescues 90%

Traded LA shootings for bison gorings: a paramedic’s transformation inside Yellowstone and Yosemite.

by Kevin Grange 2021

4.20

3k+ ratings

🏕️ Wilderness Medicine 🏞️ National Park Memoirs 🚑 Emergency Medicine 🩹 First Responder Trauma ⛑️ Rescue Narratives

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

by Alida Nugent • 2013

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

3.38

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🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 🪞 Body Image

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse 90%

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

by Alida Nugent 2013

3.38

4k+ ratings

🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 🪞 Body Image

Mindful Medicine

by Jan Chozen Bays • 2022

Healing from burnout fits between patients. Forty practices to restore purpose, no time added.

4.15

🩺 Burnout Recovery 💙 Compassion Fatigue 🧘 Mindfulness Meditation 🤲 Self-Compassion 🔄 Micro-Habits

Mindful Medicine 90%

Healing from burnout fits between patients. Forty practices to restore purpose, no time added.

by Jan Chozen Bays 2022

4.15

40 ratings

🩺 Burnout Recovery 💙 Compassion Fatigue 🧘 Mindfulness Meditation 🤲 Self-Compassion 🔄 Micro-Habits

Music Heard So Deeply

by Betsey King • 2015

In a therapist's hands, live music rebuilds speech and movement where medicine alone falls short.

4.65

🎵 Music Therapy 📖 Healthcare Memoir 🎨 Creative Arts Therapies 🧠 Neuro Rehabilitation 🤝 Therapeutic Alliance

Music Heard So Deeply 90%

In a therapist's hands, live music rebuilds speech and movement where medicine alone falls short.

by Betsey King 2015

4.65

23 ratings

🎵 Music Therapy 📖 Healthcare Memoir 🎨 Creative Arts Therapies 🧠 Neuro Rehabilitation 🤝 Therapeutic Alliance

The Invisible Kingdom

by Meghan O'Rourke • 2022

When doctors couldn't name her illness, she uncovered the medical blind spot affecting millions.

4.02

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🩺 Chronic Illness 🚺 Women's Health 🩻 Medical Gaslighting 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 📖 Illness Narratives

The Invisible Kingdom 90%

When doctors couldn't name her illness, she uncovered the medical blind spot affecting millions.

by Meghan O'Rourke 2022

4.02

7k+ ratings

🩺 Chronic Illness 🚺 Women's Health 🩻 Medical Gaslighting 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 📖 Illness Narratives

The Price We Pay

by Marty Makary • 2019

A CT scan costs $487 here, $13,000 there. A surgeon follows the money.

4.45

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🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics ⚕️ Overtreatment 💊 Opioid Crisis 💸 Healthcare Pricing

The Price We Pay 90%

A CT scan costs $487 here, $13,000 there. A surgeon follows the money.

by Marty Makary 2019

4.45

4k+ ratings

🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics ⚕️ Overtreatment 💊 Opioid Crisis 💸 Healthcare Pricing

I'm a Joke and So Are You

by Robin Ince • 2018

A comedian investigates why we joke to survive anxiety, grief, and the awkwardness of being alive.

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🎤 Stand Up Comedy 😰 Anxiety And Creativity 🧠 Neuroscience Of Humor 💀 Humor And Grief 🔪 Comedy As Social Critique

I'm a Joke and So Are You 90%

A comedian investigates why we joke to survive anxiety, grief, and the awkwardness of being alive.

by Robin Ince 2018

3.93

1k+ ratings

🎤 Stand Up Comedy 😰 Anxiety And Creativity 🧠 Neuroscience Of Humor 💀 Humor And Grief 🔪 Comedy As Social Critique

Everyone You Hate is Going to Die

by Daniel Sloss • 2021

A comedian's case for why being alone, heartbroken, and uncomfortable is the real goal.

3.92

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🤬 Anti-Self-Help 🎤 Comedic Memoir 💔 Modern Dating ☣️ Toxic Relationships 🩹 Breakup Recovery

Everyone You Hate is Going to Die Summary

Everyone You Hate is Going to Die 90%

A comedian's case for why being alone, heartbroken, and uncomfortable is the real goal.

by Daniel Sloss 2021

3.92

8k+ ratings

🤬 Anti-Self-Help 🎤 Comedic Memoir 💔 Modern Dating ☣️ Toxic Relationships 🩹 Breakup Recovery

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi • 2016

Stage IV cancer at 36: a neurosurgeon's memoir of losing the future and finding what matters.

4.41

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🩻 Terminal Illness 🩺 Medical Memoir 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧠 Neurosurgery 📜 Philosophy Of Medicine

When Breath Becomes Air 90%

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by Paul Kalanithi 2016

4.41

820k+ ratings

🩻 Terminal Illness 🩺 Medical Memoir 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧠 Neurosurgery 📜 Philosophy Of Medicine

This Is How

by Augusten Burroughs • 2012

Positive thinking is a lie. The way through is honesty about what will never get better.

3.68

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🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🎯 Radical Honesty 🌊 Emotional Acceptance 🍷 Addiction Recovery 🔍 Dealing With Shame

This Is How 90%

Positive thinking is a lie. The way through is honesty about what will never get better.

by Augusten Burroughs 2012

3.68

13k+ ratings

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🎯 Radical Honesty 🌊 Emotional Acceptance 🍷 Addiction Recovery 🔍 Dealing With Shame

If Disney Ran Your Hospital

by Fred Lee • 2004

Patients compare your hospital to Disney, not the one across town. Courtesy decides who wins.

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🏥 Healthcare Management 🤲 Patient Experience 🏛️ Organizational Culture 💪 Employee Empowerment 🔄 Continuous Improvement

If Disney Ran Your Hospital 90%

Patients compare your hospital to Disney, not the one across town. Courtesy decides who wins.

by Fred Lee 2004

4.01

1k+ ratings

🏥 Healthcare Management 🤲 Patient Experience 🏛️ Organizational Culture 💪 Employee Empowerment 🔄 Continuous Improvement

Brain on Fire

by Susannah Cahalan • 2012

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

4.09

239k+

🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease 🧠 Neurological Disorders 👁️ Firsthand Psychosis

Brain on Fire 90%

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

by Susannah Cahalan 2012

4.09

239k+ ratings

🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease 🧠 Neurological Disorders 👁️ Firsthand Psychosis

What the Dead Know

by Barbara Butcher • 2023

The New York City death investigator who learned to read a body before her own life.

4.17

9k+

🕵️‍♀️ Death Investigation 🔬 Forensic Pathology 💔 Emotional Labor 🧠 Suicide Studies 🚑 Mass Casualty Response

What the Dead Know 90%

The New York City death investigator who learned to read a body before her own life.

by Barbara Butcher 2023

4.17

9k+ ratings

🕵️‍♀️ Death Investigation 🔬 Forensic Pathology 💔 Emotional Labor 🧠 Suicide Studies 🚑 Mass Casualty Response

Unaccountable

by Marty Makary • 2012

Hospital staff know which doctors to avoid. Here is what to ask to find out.

4.29

2k+

🏥 Hospital Accountability 🔍 Medical Transparency 🛡️ Patient Safety ⚠️ Medical Errors 💸 Overtreatment

Unaccountable 90%

Hospital staff know which doctors to avoid. Here is what to ask to find out.

by Marty Makary 2012

4.29

2k+ ratings

🏥 Hospital Accountability 🔍 Medical Transparency 🛡️ Patient Safety ⚠️ Medical Errors 💸 Overtreatment

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