Tuesday, April 7, 2015

10 books that every medical student and physician must read

If you're a medical student, and we have an idea of ​​all the books you have to read you and learning you while you study, but today we have a list of 10 books of literature that will be very useful in your profession

Most of these books will teach you about professional medical ethics, medical experiences and so many other things that will surely make you look your profession from a different point of view. If you have another recommendation, share it with us;)


1. The Emperor of all evil: A Biography of Cancer

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Original Title: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer According to Dr. Cheson describes this book as well written and easy to read. "It's a valuable lesson about dealing with patients, dealing with the system and the importance of the history of oncology and hematology" offers a glimpse into the future of this disease and a bold new point of view on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and citizens have observed and understood the human body for millennia.


2. Children of the wide world

Author: Abraham Verghese Original Title: Cutting for Stone Told in Ethiopia, this epic novel tells the story of twin brothers growing in a mission hospital and eventually become doctors. He has appeared on several prestigious bestseller lists, including The New York Times, and was backed solidly by readers of Medscape. THE father of the twins was a surgeon, disappears when they are born, the mother was a nun and died in childbirth.


3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Rebecca Skloot Original title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was a peasant whose cells, which were taken without her knowledge, still alive even though she has been dead for more than sixty years and have become one of the most important tools medicine. This is a story of HeLa cell - the first human cancer cell grown.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

4. The House of God

Author: Samuel Shem Original Title: The House of God Originally published in 1978 amid much controversy, this book has become a cult favorite among physicians. It offers a fictional account of a medical intern at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School satirizes the dehumanizing demands of the residence


5. Complications. Confessions of a surgeon on an imperfect science

Author: Atul Gawande Original title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a compilation of stories of doctors and patients, dramatic and revealing stories that prove fatal mistakes that even experienced doctors can be wrong. It also explains what happens when medicine meets the inexplicable


6. The spirit catches you and you fall, by Anne Fadiman

Author: Anne Fadiman Original title: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down highlights a classic crisis of life or death matter for the Western medical professionals live a self-assurance and ethnocentric view of the tight job market. Fadiman became interested in what he had heard about the clash between the Western medical system Merced, California and concentrate Lao Hmong refugees who had begun to settle there in 1970 group


7. Under the same star

Author: John Green Original title: The Fault in Our Stars Hazel was diagnosed with stage IV thyroid that expands lung cancer, but managed to survive more than expected thanks to an experimental drug called Phalanxifor. In the support group she meets Augustus Waters, a good young basketball across in their secondary, but lost his right leg because of a condition called Osteosarcoma and is now in remission.


8. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers

Author: Mary Roach Original title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers In the book, Roach offers firsthand accounts of the bodies, a history of the use of cadavers, and an exploration of ethics / moral surroundings. Place the contents of each chapter in historical context by discussing the history of the method of using a body that is about to witness.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

9. Intern: a doctor´s initiation 

Author: Sandeep Jauhar Original Title: Intern: A Doctor's Initiation is the story of Dr. Sandeep Jauhar of his days and nights in residence at a prominent university hospital in the city of New York, a judgment that led him to question every conventional assumption about doctors and medicine and making it an ideal figure to speak with our own doubts about doctors and medicine today.

Intern:  la curiosa vida de cadáveres humanos

10. The Double Helix

Author: James Watson Original title: The double helix Changing the twentieth century XXI and find forever linked to the definitive mapping of the human genetic map, which opens a new world in the field of science and, especially, in the medicine. The double helix is ​​the story of the process that led to this crucial moment first hand made by James D. Watson, star of the same in 1953 with British Francis Crick.

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