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.
Oct. 28, 2020Wednesday DO & student voicesThe DO book club Emergency medicine The 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.
Sept. 22, 2020Tuesday DO & student voicesThe DO book club Mental health The DO Book Club, September 2020: Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician’s Struggle with Mental Illness Kyle Bradford Jones, MD, opens up about his struggles with depression and anxiety while advocating for the destigmatization of physicians seeking help when facing their own mental health struggles.
Aug. 25, 2020Tuesday The DO book club biomedical ethics The DO Book Club, August 2020: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks’ cells sparked a medical science revolution and a multi-million dollar industry, but her family was kept out of the loop.
July 29, 2020Wednesday DO & student voicesThe DO book club Treating trauma The DO Book Club, July 2020: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Traumatic stress expert Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, discusses his lifelong research on psychosocial trauma. His insights have surprising parallels to osteopathic medicine.
June 23, 2020Tuesday The DO book club Medical history The DO Book Club, June 2020: The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic Dr. John Snow’s discovery that bacteria-contaminated water caused cholera saved countless 19th-century Londoners and changed public health forever.
May 27, 2020Wednesday The DO book club Medical education The DO Book Club, May 2020: This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident Adam Kay, a former resident physician who is now a comedy writer, published a diary describing all the highs and lows of his six years working in NHS labor wards.
April 28, 2020Tuesday The DO book club The skin we’re in The DO Book Club, April 2020: The Body: A Guide for Occupants Bill Bryson walks us through our origins, anatomy, neuroses and much more in a read that’s as engaging as his travel writing.
March 24, 2020Tuesday The DO book club Medical mystery The DO Book Club, March 2020: Brain on Fire Susanah Cahalan details her battle with anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis, a rare disease that a neurologist had to dig deeper than her list of symptoms to identify.
Feb. 25, 2020Tuesday The DO book club the future of medicine The DO Book Club, Feb. 2020: Lifespan Aging is a disease that can be cured, writes Harvard researcher David Sinclair, PhD, who shares his findings—and the anti-aging tactics he uses.