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Ivailo Petrov
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Check out "How not to die"
Ahmad
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
I was looking for this type of video last month and I didn't find a good one, thanks a lot <3
A
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Highly recommend Henry Marsh’s books. He discusses his clinical mistakes and the different factors which contribute to decision making in medicine.
KirstyReadsandCreates
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
I’ve added every one of these to my TBR. I love reading about anything medical and these all sound great!
KirstyReadsandCreates
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby is a great medical memoir. If you haven’t read that one I would definitely recommend.
Demelda Penkitty
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Really useful, thank you
Heather Peet
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
I recommend “We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer's” by Dick Swaab. I also *love this genre.
fredo gumbo
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Not medicine per se but Bad Blood by John Carryrou is an absolutely brilliant book of investigative journalism. So good
Gloria Zaytsev Thompson
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Some great recommendations!! I enjoyed Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty. A look at the death / funeral industry.
book elf
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
So nice to see a video on medical non-fiction. I'm a med student and haven't read lots of the ones you have mentioned. They all sound great but I think 'Unwell women' shall be the first I pick up. I have a few recommendations for books which contrast anatomy to poignant patient cases: Stephen Westaby's 'Fragile lives' is fantastic, and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh's books 🙂
Susannah C
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
These all look so interesting, added loads to my wish list.
Abi of Pellinor
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
So I sat here with pen and paper to note down the books I found interesting… I've just added literally all of them onto my tbr 😂😂
Kerry
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
great video I'll be watching again to get down so many titles. As a medical professional I read lots of books in my area. One of my favorites is. Expecting Adam by Martha Beck. It's the story of a woman who is pregnant with a child with Down's and her journey to decide to have the baby and the treatment she received. It's fairly old (1999) but had much to say about obstetrical care and the medicines attitudes about disability.
braincabbage
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
I put so many of these books on my TBR now. I really liked Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. I also love Jenny Lawson's books for funny memoirs about mental illness. I also recommend Can't You Hear Them? by Simon McCarthy-Jones about hearing voices and Heart by Sandeep Jauhar about the heart
Zubaer Chaudhari
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
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N L
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
YEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!
Draw your book
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
I have wanted to read the gene for a long time
tiffany anne
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Being Mortal is incredible, I would highly recommend picking it up! I read it a good few years ago and I think about it a lot still.
Chaotic Bibliophile
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Many of these were already on my TBR but those that weren’t have now made it there 😂 Thank you for this vid! I love thematic recs and medical nonfiction is a recent new interest of mine.
S A
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Wow! Thank you for the list… Really interesting sounding books. And so many Indian/Indian-Origin authors! 😀
Anna La
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
I love this genre! Thanks so much for all these recommendations! I also loved When Breath Becomes Air and I’m currently reading Bad Blood. 🙂
Gracie Sanchez
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Thank you so much for these Book recommendations!!! So many added to my TBR.
BeautyChemCam
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
This was very interesting. The medical field is wild to me, on the one hand it can help so many people and on the other hand the way they conduct their research is sometimes so unethical, let's just try cut away this and see what happens.
Claire Hansen
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
I’m reading “and the band played on- politics, people and the aids epidemic”- I think you’d enjoy it! Atm it’s more about the discovery of HIV than the politics, so really heavy on the medical stuff. So interesting and heart breaking
Sandra Reiss
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
This is such a great idea for a video and what a great selection of books! I'm planning on reading The Gene early next year as part of a theme of nature vs nurture reading and I can't agree more on No Visible Bruises, a topic I did not know a lot about. Let me Strongly Recommend Far From the Tree about having children who may have a disibility which is not inherited and how their parents dealt with the news and child i.e. Downs Syndrome, deafness, autism….the book won many awards and is written with warmth and honesty.
Ilona Hiemstra
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
Have you read ‘The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks’? Thought that was really interesting.