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When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

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Kitchen Table Wisdom

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Stephen Grosz

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Happening

Annie Ernaux

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Elephant Man

Bernard Pomerance

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Dolly City

Orly Castel-Bloom

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The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison

Essays

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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

Suzanne Scanlon

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Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity

Danielle Spencer

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When Nietzsche Wept

Irvin D. Yalom

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Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

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The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

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A Leg to Stand On

Oliver Sacks

Memoir

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The body is the text, a text that is changing and must be frequently inspected, palpated, percussed, and auscultated.

Abraham Verghese

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