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Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers (Literature and Medicine) by Jay Baruch So-So I'm not in any hurry to finish reading this book. I didn't realize these were fictional short stories and honestly, I'm not all that fond of his writing. The medicine in the fiction is top-notch, but the stories are so-so.read more...

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Cutting Remarks: Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon by Sidney Schwab Just okay I can't understand why this book got so many top reviews. Not that it is bad, but there are many better books in the how-I-became-a-doctor genre. Michael Collin's Hot Lights, Cold Steel, or Frank Vertosick's When the Air Hits Your Brain are tops in this area. Also, either Atul Gawande's books, Be...read more...