Suggested Reading List
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Our Suggested Reads
View our picks for wider reading around medicine.
Good Medical Practice
by General Medical Council
Tomorrow’s Doctors
by General Medical Council
Bad Science
by Ben Goldacre
What is This Thing Called Science?
by Alan Chalmers
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks
Trust me, I’m a Junior Doctor
by Max Pemberton
Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig
Where Does It Hurt?
by Max Pemberton
Blood, Sweat and Tea
by Tom Reynolds
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
by Roy Porter
In Stitches
by Nick Edwards
The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
This is Going to Hurt
by Adam Kay
Complications and Better
by Atul Gawande
The House of God
by Samuel Shem
The Other Side
by Kate Granger
Bad Pharma
by Ben Goldacre
Every Last Word
by Tamara Ireland Stone
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
More Suggested Reads
Titles that are slightly more challenging but useful.
Pearls in Medicine for Students
by Kumar Arup Kundu
Medical Ethics
by Tony Hope
The Social Basis of Medicine
by Andrew Russell
The Human Brain
by Susan Greenfield
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande
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