March 1, 2023Wednesday The DO book club Diving into the lab The DO Book Club, March 2023: “STIFF,” “Cutting Out” and “ADHD: Quick & Easy Guide” In this humorously irreverent but never disrespectful work of creative nonfiction, Mary Roach dissects, if you will, the role cadavers have played throughout history. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
Dec. 1, 2022Thursday The DO book club Romance on the wards The DO Book Club, Dec. 2022: ‘On Rotation’ and ‘The White Coat Diaries’ In these books, we learn about the pressures some minority women face as they navigate their professional and personal lives. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
Nov. 1, 2022Tuesday The DO book club Past, present, future The DO Book Club, Nov. 2022: What Doctors Feel, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, A Christmas Carol This month’s books examine where modern medicine’s been and may be heading, how what doctors see and do affects them emotionally, and what our real business is. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
Oct. 1, 2022Saturday The DO book club Trailblazers The DO Book Club, Oct. 2022: The Doctors Blackwell This history of the famous sisters and pioneers in medicine casts a spotlight on a tumultuous time in American history. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
Sept. 1, 2022Thursday The DO book club Women and medicine The DO Book Club, Sept. 2022: Letter to a Young Female Physician, Ask Me About My Uterus, Practical Management of Pain Three worthy reads address women in medicine, women’s pain and a modern approach to pain management. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
Aug. 1, 2022Monday The DO book club ICU care The DO Book Club, Aug. 2022: Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU Wes Ely, MD, shares the steps physicians can make to help their ICU patients recover better and more quickly. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
June 1, 2022Wednesday The DO book club Doctor as patient The DO Book Club, June 2022: In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope A doctor’s harrowing experience opens her eyes to the dismissive and impersonal treatment patients sometimes receive in the ICU, OR and ER. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
May 1, 2022Sunday scope of practiceThe DO book club The nature of caregiving The DO Book Club, May 2022: The English Patient, Flying Blind and Patients at Risk In its own way, each book examines the core of what we do as physicians, what our job is and where our responsibilities lie. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
April 1, 2022Friday The DO book club Race and medicine The DO Book Club, April 2022: Black Man in a White Coat Damon Tweedy, MD, examines the complexities of being a Black person training as a physician and a Black patient in a system fraught with cultural, social and economic inequities. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
March 1, 2022Tuesday cardiologypatient careThe DO book club Narrative medicine The DO Book Club, March 2022: Heartsounds, Echoes of Heartsounds, Changing How We Think About Difficult Patients Heartsounds vividly describes the author’s experiences and emotions as her husband, a urologist, suffers a myocardial infarction while she is out of the country. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA