This year's annual list of my favorite reads includes two works of fiction and eight real-life narratives about cancer, the history of medicine, rural family practice, and urban street medicine. As usual, I have listed them alphabetically by title rather than in any order of preference. For more great titles, feel free to peruse my lists from 2022, 2021, and 2015-2020. Other than the occasional free book to review for Family Medicine, I don't receive anything for reading or sharing them.
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1.Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action, by David Fajgenbaum
2.From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer, by Elaine Schattner
3. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, by Jim Downs
4. The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity’s Deadliest Diseases, by Andrew Lam
5. Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert: My Life Among the Navajo People, by Erica Elliott
6. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, A Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice, by Benjamin Gilmer
7. Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People, by Tracy Kidder
8. Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
9. That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story, by Jim Zervanos
10. 2060, by Richard Young
thank you, Kenny! This is a fantastic list!