56 Books Every Healthcare Professional Should Read
Doctors from White Sands shared their literary preferences and made a list of books that every doctor should read.
- How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Gregor, MD and Gene Stone
- The Buoy Projects: A Story of Breast Cancer, Bucket Lists, Life Lessons, Facebook and Love by Lorna J. Brunelle
- Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives by Lee Gutkind
- Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work by Dinah Miller, MD; Annette Hanson, MD; and Steven Roy Daviss, MD
- How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin Nuland, MD
- Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor by William Davis, MD
- Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
- Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs and Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael J. Collins, MD
- Health Journeys: A Meditation to Help You with Healthful Sleep by Belleruth Naparstek.
- Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health by Jeanne Abrams
- Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health by Richard Jacoby and Raquel Baldelomar
- This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine by Eliza Chin, MD
- Gifted Hands by Ben Carson, MD
- Leadership is an Art by Max Depree
- Becoming the Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership by Harry M. Kraemer
- Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History by DK.
- A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student by Perri Klass, MD
- When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank Vertosick, MD
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Better: A Surgeon’s Note on Performance by Atul Gawande, MD
- Cutting for Stone by Stanford physician Abraham Verghese, MD
- Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring by Carolyn Jourdan.
- Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
- Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity by Dr. Ronald Epstein
- The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- Crisis in U.S. Health Care: Corporate Power vs. The Common Good by John Geyman, MD
- The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside by Sherwin Nuland, MD
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom, MD
- This Won’t Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies) by Michelle Au, MD
- To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again by Mary Neal, MD
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- Medicaid Politics and Policy by Judith D. Moore and David G. Smith
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Too Busy for Your Own Good: Get More Done in Less Time with Even More Energy by Connie Merritt
- The Creative Destruction of Medicine by Eric Topol, M.D
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
- The Comfort Garden: Tales from the Trauma Unit by Laurie Barkin
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier by Jan Garavaglia
- Helping Children Overcome Fear in a Medical Setting by Rob Luka
- Complaint Free World by Will Bowen
- Conspiracies of Kindness: The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill by Michael Ortiz
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol
- In Search of Good Medicine: Hospital Marketing Strategies to Engage Healthcare Consumers by Mark D. Shipley
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D
- The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida,
- The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous
- Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth by Matthew Algeo
- The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
- The Soul of a Doctor by Susan Pories, M.D., Sachin H. Jain and Gordon Harper, M.D.
- In Stitches by Anthony Youn, M.D.