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.