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Super Agers Summary
Immersive
Super Agers
An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity
by Eric Topol 2025 464 pages
3.48
1k+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine Summary
Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine
by K. Park 1970 868 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Health
Outlive Summary
Outlive
The Science & Art of Longevity
by Peter Attia 2023 496 pages
4.31
99k+ ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
The Checklist Manifesto Summary
The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande 2009 215 pages
4.04
76k+ ratings
Business
Productivity
Self Help
Being Mortal Summary
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande 2014 282 pages
4.49
200k+ ratings
Medicine
Science
Health
Deep Medicine Summary
Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
by Eric J. Topol 2019 341 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Science
Medicine
Artificial Intelligence
If Disney Ran Your Hospital Summary
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently
by Fred Lee 2004 216 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Business
Health Care
Leadership
The Body Summary
The Body
A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson 2019 450 pages
4.31
100k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Everything Is Tuberculosis Summary
Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green 2025 198 pages
4.34
200k+ ratings
History
Science
Health
Gut Summary
Gut
The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
by Giulia Enders 2014 272 pages
4.08
56k+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
Gifted Hands Summary
Gifted Hands
The Ben Carson Story
by Ben Carson 1992
4.18
22k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Medical
The Poisoner's Handbook Summary
The Poisoner's Handbook
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by Deborah Blum 2010 319 pages
4.02
37k+ ratings
History
Science
True Crime
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Summary
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot 2010 362 pages
4.13
800k+ ratings
Science
Book Club
History
Blind Spots Summary
Blind Spots
When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
by Marty Makary 2024 288 pages
4.35
4k+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
Ross and Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness Summary
Ross and Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness
by Anne Waugh 2006 504 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
Medical
Medicine
Nursing
Cutting for Stone Summary
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese 2009 560 pages
4.34
400k+ ratings
Book Club
Historical Fiction
Africa
Quantum Healing Summary
Quantum Healing
Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine
by Deepak Chopra 1989 346 pages
4.15
6k+ ratings
Health
Spirituality
Self Help
Gray's Anatomy Summary
Gray's Anatomy
by Henry Gray 1858 1257 pages
4.31
3k+ ratings
Reference
Science
Medicine
Human Anatomy, Volume 2 Summary
Human Anatomy, Volume 2
Lower Limb, Abdomen and Pelvis
by B.D. Chaurasia 2005 488 pages
3.98
272 ratings
Medical
Academics
Medicine
Immune Summary
Immune
a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
by Philipp Dettmer 2021 341 pages
4.58
13k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Dissolving Illusions Summary
Dissolving Illusions
Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
by Suzanne Humphries 2013 530 pages
4.62
2k+ ratings
Health
History
Science
When Breath Becomes Air Summary
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi 2016 208 pages
4.41
800k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
The Emperor of All Maladies Summary
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 472 pages
4.34
100k+ ratings
Science
History
Medicine
The Shift Summary
The Shift
One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
by Theresa Brown 2015 256 pages
3.87
8k+ ratings
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
Into the Magic Shop Summary
Into the Magic Shop
A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets ofthe Heart
by James R. Doty 2016 287 pages
4.23
28k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Memoir
Lifespan Summary
Lifespan
The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair 2019 433 pages
4.12
26k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
On Death and Dying Summary
On Death and Dying
What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 1969 304 pages
4.16
27k+ ratings
Psychology
Death
Philosophy
Magic Pill Summary
Magic Pill
The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
by Johann Hari 2024 320 pages
4.26
8k+ ratings
Health
Science
Psychology
Molecular Biology of the Cell Summary
Molecular Biology of the Cell
by Bruce Alberts 1983 1616 pages
4.36
2k+ ratings
Biology
Science
Textbooks
Back Mechanic Summary
Back Mechanic
by Stuart McGill 2015 303 pages
4.50
1k+ ratings
Health
Fitness
Science
Avicenna's Medicine Summary
Avicenna's Medicine
A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care
by Avicenna 1025 480 pages
4.29
276 ratings
Medicine
Philosophy
Science
Complications Summary
Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande 2002 270 pages
4.28
52k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
Why We Get Sick Summary
Why We Get Sick
The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease--and How to Fight It
by Benjamin Bikman 2020 280 pages
4.11
6k+ ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
Awakenings Summary
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks 1973 567 pages
4.09
14k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Medicine
How Doctors Think Summary
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman 2007 307 pages
3.93
13k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
A Silent Fire Summary
A Silent Fire
The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
by Shilpa Ravella 2022 368 pages
3.96
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
The Song of the Cell Summary
The Song of the Cell
An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2022 473 pages
4.29
15k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Medicine
Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition Summary
Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition
The Ben Carson Story
by Gregg Lewis 2009 112 pages
4.38
2k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
Memoir
The Clot Thickens Summary
The Clot Thickens
by Malcolm Kendrick 2021 334 pages
4.65
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
Compassionomics Summary
Compassionomics
The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference
by Stephen Trzeciak 2019 375 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
Medicine
Leadership
Science
The Good Gut Summary
The Good Gut
Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
by Justin Sonnenburg 2015 320 pages
3.85
3k+ ratings
Health
Science
Food
Grow a New Body Summary
Grow a New Body
by Alberto Villoldo 2015 297 pages
4.17
1k+ ratings
Health
Spirituality
Self Help
Notes on Nursing Summary
Notes on Nursing
What It Is, and What It Is Not
by Florence Nightingale 1858 160 pages
3.79
1k+ ratings
Nursing
History
Classics
The Secret Language of Your Body Summary
The Secret Language of Your Body
The Essential Guide to Healing
by Inna Segal 2007 216 pages
4.29
500+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Spirituality
Musicophilia Summary
Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks 2007 425 pages
3.95
75k+ ratings
Music
Science
Psychology
Dirty Genes Summary
Dirty Genes
A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health
by Ben Lynch 2018 384 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
The White Coat Investor Summary
The White Coat Investor
A Doctor's Guide to Personal Finance and Investing
by James M. Dahle 2014 208 pages
4.39
4k+ ratings
Finance
Medicine
Personal Finance
Lies I Taught in Medical School Summary
Lies I Taught in Medical School
How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life
by Robert Lufkin 2024 352 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
Mountains Beyond Mountains Summary
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder 2003 332 pages
4.20
89k+ ratings
Biography
Medicine
Book Club
The Gene Summary
The Gene
An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2016 592 pages
4.35
56k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
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