Books by Doctors.
Atul Gwande – Complications Better Being Mortal Checklist Manifesto
Oliver Sacks The man who mistook his wife for a hat An anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings
Seamus O Mahony The way we die now. The Ministry of Bodies. Can medicine be cured?
Harry Barry – Flagging the problem Anxiety & Panic Flagging the Therapy
Tim Lucey – In my Room The Life well lived
Ivor Browne – Music & Madness
Elizabeth Kubler Ross - On death & dying
Naked Surgeon.
When breath becomes air – Paul Kalanithi
Suzanne O SUllivan - It’s all in your head Brain Storm The Sleeping Beauties
Henry Marsh Admissions Do no Harm And Finally
Ben Goldacre – Bad Pharma Bad science I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that
Tom Burns – Our necessary shadow.
Danielle Ofri What Doctors Feel What Patients Say : What Doctors Hear.
Follies and Fallacies of modern medicine
Your life in my hands - Rachel Clarke
Books by others about Medicine
How Doctors think – Jerome Groopman
Michael Fitzpatrick - The tyranny of health
Ivan Ilich – Limits to medicine Medical Nemesis.
Prozac Nation. Sectioned.
Dr Terry Lynch- Beyond Prozac Selfhood
Desmond Morris- Babywatching Naked Ape The Naked woman.
My age of anxiety – Scott Stossel.
The Female Eunuch.
Spike Milligan & Anthony Clare –Depression.
The trouble with medicine – Konner.
Rise and fall of modern medicine – James le Fanu.
Into the Magic Shop – James Daly.
John Zabat-Kahn – The Mindful way through Depression.
Aine Tubridy- When panic attacks.
Caroline Forlan – It’s all in the mind.
Some other stuff by or about Doctors or Health.
Samuel Shem - House of God Mount Mercy. Mans 4th Best Hospital
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Good Doctor – Damon Galgut
Diving Bell and the Butterfly – JD Bauby
Affluenza – Oliver James.
A country Doctors Notebook – Mikhail Bulgakov
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
Bodies- Jed Mercurio
Hospital – Toby Litt
The Curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime.
A Beautiful Mind – Sylvia Nasar.
Me & my mate Jeffrey - Niall Breslin
Other notable reads……
AJ Cronin – Citadel.
Khalid Hosseini.
Abraham Varghese - Cutting for stone.
Jodi Picul –My sister’s keeper.
Tipping point.
Drunk Tank Pink.