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.
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Four-legged friends
July 27, 2021The DO Book Club, July 2021: Mutual Rescue
Carol Novello shares incredible stories that illustrate how animal companionship can benefit the mind, body, and spirit.
Food as medicine
June 23, 2021The DO Book Club, June 2021: How Not to Die
In this book, Michael Greger, MD, and Gene Stone provide a rigorous overview of the disease-preventing power of food and a road map for adopting a more healthful diet.
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.
historical fiction
March 24, 2021The DO Book Club, March 2021: The Pull of the Stars
The DO Book Club’s first fictional selection is a novel about the 1918 flu pandemic that provides a valuable look at how health care workers weathered the storm over 100 years ago.
OB-GYN stories
Feb. 24, 2021The DO Book Club, February 2021: Womb With a View: Tales from the Delivery, Emergency and Operating Rooms
The Book Club’s first DO-written selection is a memoir by Rebecca Levy-Gantt, DO, who explains how OB-GYN can be “filled with the happy, sad, interesting, devastating, and unbelievable.”
Case studies
Jan. 27, 2021The DO Book Club, January 2021: The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks, MD, who was a prominent neurologist and historian, argues for a paradigm shift regarding what he calls neurology’s favorite word: “deficit.”
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.