Books

Below are a list of books I have personally read over the years. Many of these books have helped shape my perspectives on medicine, science and the world.

Books that are labeled with ** are ones I highly recommend for anyone pursuing or in a medical profession. Please see my MCAT page for recommended prep books.

Physician Finances

• White Coast Investor** (CDN) - Jim Dahle
• How to Think About Money (CDN) - Clements
• Beat the Bank (CDN) - Larry Bates
• The Psychology of Money (CDN) - Morgan Housel

Medical School - recommended resources for getting through med school

• Pocket Medicine  (CDN)- Marc Sabatine (my review)
• Surgical Recall - Blackbourne (my review)
• Netter’s Concise Orthopaedic Anatomy - Jon Thompson
• Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry - Nancy Andreasen
• First Aid for Personal Finance: What Every Medical Student and Resident Should Know (Kindle) - James Chang (my review)
• Success on the Wards - Desai & Katta (my review)

Internal Medicine - my favorite IM texts

• Pocket Medicine - Marc Sabatine (my review)
• Approach to Internal Medicine** (CDN)- David Hui
• Pathophysiology of Heart Disease - Leonard Lily
• Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple - Mark Gladwin
• Fundamentals of Neurologic Disease - Larry Davis
• The ICU Book - Paul Marino
• Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis** - Steven McGee
• The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis - David Simel
• Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice - Gordon Guyatt

Medical

• Complications - Atul Gawande**
• Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
• House of God - Samuel Shem**
• How We Die - Sherwin Nuland**
• How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
• Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam

Science

• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• The Language of God - Francis Collins
• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman

Personal Development

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen
• The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

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