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