Sept. 27, 2021Monday The DO book club Intern year The DO Book Club, Sept. 2021: The House of God Although outdated, the anonymously written novel offers a candid look at medical training that many in medicine will relate to.
Aug. 25, 2021Wednesday The DO book club Personal account The 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.
July 27, 2021Tuesday The DO book club Four-legged friends The DO Book Club, July 2021: Mutual Rescue Carol Novello shares incredible stories that illustrate how animal companionship can benefit the mind, body, and spirit.
June 23, 2021Wednesday The DO book club Food as medicine The 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.
May 24, 2021Monday DO & student voicesThe DO book club Fallibility, mystery, uncertainty The 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.
March 24, 2021Wednesday The DO book club historical fiction The 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.
Feb. 24, 2021Wednesday The DO book club OB-GYN stories The 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.”
Jan. 27, 2021Wednesday DO and student voicesThe DO book club Case studies The 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.”
Dec. 8, 2020Tuesday DO & student voicesThe DO book club cultural divide The 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.
Nov. 18, 2020Wednesday The DO book club Vaccines & immunology The DO Book Club, November 2020: On Immunity: An Inoculation In 2014, Eula Biss wrote about how cultural perceptions of immunity inform the general public’s outlook on personal responsibility. In 2020, her words resonate strongly.