April 2017
About the Author: Eric Topol
Eric's Bio from Leigh Bureau Healthcare today is in the midst of a thrilling transformation: the rise of digital medicine. Mobile technology and cheaper gene sequencing are opening the door to a whole new kind of care. [...]
May Book Review: The Patient Will See You Now
The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Eric Topol’s book The Patient Will See You Now. Join us over the coming months as we read and check back soon to hear our thoughts.
February 2017
About the Author: Atul Gawande
This bio is taken directly from Atul's Website Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in [...]
March Book Review: Complications
The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Atul Gawande's book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. Join us as we read and check back soon to hear our thoughts.
January 2017
January Book Review: Look Me In the Eye
“So I’m not defective. In fact, in recent years I have started to see that we Aspergians are better than normal! And now it seems as though scientists agree: Recent articles suggest that a [...]
About the Author: John Elder Robison
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1957, John soon found that he was "always a problem child — often sad, a loner, unable to make friends. The problem was, that Asperger’s Syndrome had not yet been [...]
Beyond the Book: Look Me In The Eye
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November 2016
November Book Review: The Spare Room
Like grief there are stages to tackling a terminal disease, both as the patient diagnosed and as a loved one trying to care for them. It is justifiably difficulty on both ends, but even more [...]
About The Author: Helen Garner
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, [...]
How Doctors Think Twitter Chat
You might not have been able to follow or contribute to our Doctors Book Club for October, but you can still read back through the discussion. The following is the transcript from the How Doctors [...]