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9 Best Medicine Books

Goal: Find the best Medicine books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best medicine books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

9 Best Medicine Books

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1

The Emperor of All Maladies

A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

2

Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

Also recommended by:

Ryan Shea

3

Do No Harm

Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

by Henry Marsh

4

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

5

Mountains Beyond Mountains

The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

by Tracy Kidder

6

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

And Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

Also recommended by:

Jordan Peterson

7

Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande

8

Stiff

The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach

9

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

by Anne Fadiman

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