Personal account
Aug. 25, 2021The DO Book Club, Aug. 2021: The Undying
Anne Boyer’s Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of her breast cancer treatment offers a glimpse into the suffering and isolation experienced by many patients.
Articles by Joan Naidorf, DO
Fallibility, mystery, uncertainty
May 24, 2021The DO Book Club, May 2021: Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, shares insights on residency training, difficult treatment decisions and medical errors.
cultural divide
Dec. 8, 2020The DO Book Club, December 2020: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman tells the tragic story of a cultural conflict between a Hmong immigrant family and a team of American physicians.
Emergency medicine
Oct. 28, 2020The DO Book Club, October 2020: The Beauty in Breaking
Emergency physician Michele Harper, MD, writes candidly about systemic racism and gender bias in the health care system through the lens of her own experience.