Suggested Reading for Premedical Students
- A Not Entirely Benign Procedure
Perri Klass (1994)
- Becoming a Doctor
Melvin Konner M.D. (1988)
- Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of cases that have shaped medical ethics with philosophical, legal, and historical background
Gregory Pence (1995)
- Code of Medical Ethics. Current Opinions with Annotations (1997) 150th Anniversary Edition
Currently maintained and updated by the "Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs" (CEJA) section of the American Medical Association
First developed and published in 1847
- Complications: A surgeons notes on an imperfect science*
Atul Gawande (2002)
*Dr. McLachlin's personal favorite, this book was a National Book Award Finalist
- Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
Michael Crichton (1989)
- First, Do No Harm
Lisa Belkin (1993)
- Heirs of General Practice
John McPhee (1986)
- House of God
Samuel Shem
- Intoxicated by My Illness
Anatole Broyard (1992)
- Kitchen Table Wisdom
Rachel Naomi Remmen (1996)
- Learning to Play God
Robert Marion
- Letters to a Young Doctor
Richard Selzer (1996)
- Life after Medical School: Thirty-two doctors describe how they shaped their medical careers.
Leonard Lasker, (ed.)
- My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
Abraham Verghese (1995)
- Principles of Medical Ethics (2006)
First adopted by the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates in 2001, this publication is available on-line through the AMA's web site.
- The Call of Stories
Robert Coles (1989)
- The Corporate Transformation of Health Care: Perspectives and Implications
J. Warren Salmon, (ed.) (1994)
- The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of Doctor
Robert Marion (2001)
- The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness
Jerome Groopman (1998)
- The Spirit Catches and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman (1997)
- Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care.
Kenneth Ludmerer
- Understanding Health Policy. A Clinical Approach
Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach (2005)
- Western Medicine: An Illustrated History
Irvine Loudon (ed.) (1997)
