ALiEM BookClub: Being Mortal
“Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things. I knew these truths abstractly, but...
Jordana Haber, MD |
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“Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things. I knew these truths abstractly, but...
Jordana Haber, MD |
Although the title is ostensibly sinister, Darrell Huff’s “How to Lie with Statistics” is anything but. In medicine, we are faced with complicated statistics and “statisticulators” on a daily basis....
Derek Sifford |
The Emperor of All Maladies has become my touchstone for medicine. Siddhartha Mukherjee writes in a poignant and humanist voice as he beautifully captures the “Biography of Cancer.” Interweaving science, stories,...
Alia Dharamsi, MD |
“Looking back at this time, I see that I’d begun to surrender to the disease, allowing all the aspects of my personality that I value – patience, kindness, and courteousness...
Aimee Tang, MD |
The full title of Gerd Gigerenzer’s book is Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions [Amazon], which is exactly what makes this book so relevant, not just to the everyday reader,...
Nikita Joshi, MD |
In this month’s ALiEM Book Club selection, Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling, author Edgar Schein describes a model of communication termed “humble inquiry” which he...
Eve Purdy, BHSc MD |
“So what does this ideal medical care look like? The great Tip O’Neill, himself a Boston man, used to say, ‘All politics is local.’ We believe in its corollary, that...
Scott Kobner |
“Late that afternoon, Quentin jogged along the Crissy Field promenade without paying much attention to the dogs frolicking on the beach or the windsurfers leaning low on their boards off Fort...
Jordana Haber, MD |
What is the essence of the underdog? Are they truly disadvantaged? Or occasionally, are they disruptors that provides them with a brilliant new perspective on things? Therein lies the question...
Teresa Chan, MD, MHPE |
DNR/DNI, Code Blue, Cardiac Arrest, Traumatic Brain Injury, Exsanguination, Septic Shock, Respiratory Arrest… and the list goes on. As healthcare providers, we are well versed in the medical and emergency...
Nikita Joshi, MD |
How do emotions affect the practice of medicine? This is the complex theme behind the latest book by Dr. Danielle Ofri, What Doctors Feel, and the topic of this month’s ALiEM...
Jordana Haber, MD |
Why do we do what we do? This is the question at the heart of this month’s ALiEM Book Club selection. Drive 1 , by author Daniel Pink, discusses the...
Brent Thoma, MD MA |
It was a few months into my simulation fellowship and I had been devoting a lot of my time to teaching at the medical school. I loved it. I find...
Brent Thoma, MD MA |
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