Being Mortal
Join with Doctors Book Club as we read Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal: Medicine and what Matters in the End, and then be there to discuss your thoughts on January 31st - February 2nd 2020!
About the Author: Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He has written books on Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Iperfect Science, The Checklist manifesto as well as our current bookclub book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
About the Author: Kate Cole-Adams
Kate Cole-Adams is a writer and journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Until recently Kate worked part-time training reporters at the Age newspaper. She has also worked as a senior writer for publications including Sydney Morning Herald and Time Australia magazine. Her non-fiction work Anesthesia won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, 2017 and the 2017 Australian and [...]
Anesthesia
Join with Doctors Book Club as we read Kate Cole-Adams’ book Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness.
November Book Review: Do No Harm
Join with Doctors Book Club as we read Henry Marsh's book Do No Harm: Stories of Life Death and Brain Surgery.
About the Author: Henry Marsh
Henry Thomas Marsh was born 5 March 1950. Marsh attended the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. Later he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University College, Oxford University, achieving First Class Honours, before graduating with Honours in Medicine from the Royal Free Medical School. Marsh is a leading English neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical [...]
September Book Review: Cutting For Stone
The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Abraham Verghese's book Cutting for Stone. Join us over the coming days as we discuss the book and check back soon to hear one of our club member's thoughts.
About the Author: Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a critically acclaimed, best-selling author and a physician with an international reputation for his focus on healing in an era [...]
About the Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hematologist, oncologist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee was born in New Delhi, India in 1970. In 1989. As a biology major at Stanford University, he worked in Nobel Laureate Paul Berg's laboratory, defining cellular genes that change the behaviours of cancer cells. He completed his B.S. degree in 1993. From there, Mukherjee attended the University of Oxford where he [...]
July Book Review: The Gene
The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Siddhartha Mukherjee's book The Gene: An Intimate History. Join us over the coming months as we read and check back soon to hear one of our club member's thoughts.