October 2016
Beyond the Book: How Doctors Think
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October Book Review: How Doctors Think
It is impossible to estimate how many decisions a doctor has to make on any given day in practice. There is diagnosis, prognosis, tests, treatment, dosage, and a thousand other questions to be answered from [...]
About the Author: Jerome Groopman
Dr. Groopman holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has published more than 150 [...]
September 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Twitter Chat
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Beyond the Book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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About the Author: Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot began her brilliant writing career with a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an award-winning science writer and editor, and a former correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab [...]
September Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Living in the world of medicine there is probably little way that you have gotten this far without hearing at least once of the cell line Hela. The first immortal human cells ever grown in [...]
August 2016
Still Alice Twitter Chat
You may have missed our Doctors Book Club for August, but it is never too late to read what was shared. The following is the transcript from our the Still Alice Twitter chat. #dbcAugust [...]
Beyond the Book: Still Alice
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About the Author: Lisa Genova
Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton [...]