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Interesting Medical Book

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  • 29-05-2012 3:39pm
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    caroline1111
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    Does anyone know of any decent interesting books about medical students/medicine/doctors for a medical student to read? Preferably more UK than American based. All suggestions welcome, thanks!


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    mardybumbum
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    caroline1111 wrote: »
    Does anyone know of any decent interesting books about medical students/medicine/doctors for a medical student to read? Preferably more UK than American based. All suggestions welcome, thanks!

    Everything I learned in Medical School by Sujay Kansagra is an enjoyable read.
    He posted me over a personally signed copy a while ago. He also does a mean twitter feed.


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    caroline1111
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    Thanks a million mardybumbum, I just looked up that book and it looks really like the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks


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    mardybumbum
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    caroline1111 wrote: »
    Thanks a million mardybumbum, I just looked up that book and it looks really like the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks

    I should have mentioned "The House of God". It's a book I have only heard of recently but looks like an interesting read. I popped down to Chapters earlier but they didn't have any copies in store. As soon as I finish my finals I'll be picking it up.


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    Biologic
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    I liked most of the books by Max Pemberton. He's a UK based doctor who wrote about his first few years after graduation. If you want a brutally honest, but perhaps dated, account of life as an intern in the US read "Intern Blues" by Robert Marion.


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    sam34
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    mardybumbum wrote: »
    I should have mentioned "The House of God". It's a book I have only heard of recently but looks like an interesting read. I popped down to Chapters earlier but they didn't have any copies in store. As soon as I finish my finals I'll be picking it up.

    i would recommend reading the house of god once youve been working for a year or so.... i read it as a student and just didnt really get it, but when i re-read it as an NCHD it made such sense.


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    RobFowl
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    sam34 wrote: »
    i would recommend reading the house of god once youve been working for a year or so.... i read it as a student and just didnt really get it, but when i re-read it as an NCHD it made such sense.

    I'd agree with that,
    Watch a few reruns of "Cardiac arrest" on the internet instead....


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    caroline1111
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    thanks everyone, ill see if I can get my hands on some of them!


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    FairytaleGirl
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    Direct Red

    Awesome book from a female ENT surgeon in the UK.

    I have heard Intern Blues is Brutal lol


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    EternalGeek
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    I loved Direct Red!

    Also;

    Intern by Sandeep Janhaur
    Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina S Firilik
    Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (accompanies the BBC series of the same name, which was excellent).
    Healing Hearts by kathy E. Magliato
    Heart Beat: A collection of the late, great Maurice Neligan's columns.


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    Jessibelle
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    EternalGeek wrote: »
    Heart Beat: A collection of the late, great Maurice Neligan's columns.

    I'd really reccommed this too. I was lucky to meet him on a fairly regular basis through pure happenstance and other circumstances and he was always an amazing person to talk to, argue with and ping opinions against. A real gentleman.


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    EternalGeek
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    Jessibelle wrote: »
    I'd really reccommed this too. I was lucky to meet him on a fairly regular basis through pure happenstance and other circumstances and he was always an amazing person to talk to, argue with and ping opinions against. A real gentleman.

    I am so totally and utterly jealous of that. He is my hero. Genuinely. When I did my journalism elective the lecturer told me I wrote like him...I cried...actually cried...in front of said lecturer...:rolleyes:


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    FairytaleGirl
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    Intern By Sandeep Jahur

    is another good one - as is

    On Call by Emily R. Transue


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    Piste
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    House of God is an excellent read. I'm sure I'd get more out of it having done my intern year, I read it last Summer and even my 12 weeks of rotations this year have made that book seem so much more relevant. It's a really cynical look at what it is to be a doctor.


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