 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Buy used from: £3.43 How many fatal mistakes does it take to train a surgeon?
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 | Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Buy used from: £8.99 Atul Gawande on how to become a 'positive deviant'
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 | Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon by Druin Burch
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £8.49 Beauty and brutality combine in a personal story of blood, bodysnatching, poetry, radical politics and revolutionary surgery
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 | The House of God (Black Swan) by Samuel Shem
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The blackest (& funniest) 'Catch-22' take on medicine going
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 | Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
Buy new: £9.18 / Used from: £4.75 Exceptionally gripping account of medicine's failure to advance for most of its history
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 | Kill as Few Patients as Possible: And Fifty-six Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor by Oscar London
Buy used from: £4.20 Occasionally over-sweet but still a good read
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 | How Doctors Think by Jerome E Groopman
Buy new: £9.20 / Used from: £10.95 Reflections on the troubles doctors and patients have in talking to each other
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 | The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Odyssey by Jonathan Kaplan
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £2.49 One man's story of coping with - and seeking out - dangers and difficulties
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 | A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.38 The classic autobiographical account from the early twentieth century
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 | A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
Buy new: £16.73 / Used from: £12.00 Makes the later twentieth century zip along
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 | Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 by David Kynaston
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £12.50 The years we tend to forget, brought lovingly to life
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 | Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
Buy used from: £8.00 The lesser known heroes of the Second World War, their successes and their horros
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 | Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
Buy new: £4.41 / Used from: £0.49 A cleaner almost easier heroism, shorn of the ambivalences of bombing cities
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 | The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell
Buy new: £14.95 / Used from: £2.38 See history being created - flawed and on the fly, but excitingly all the same
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 | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 A less violent history; but personal, funny and touching all the same
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 | Bit of a Blur by Alex James
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £2.48 A complete break from serious current affairs, but a slice of the times and a very enjoyably written one
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 | Letters to a Young Doctor (Harvest Book) by Richard Selzer
Buy new: £3.44 / Used from: £2.10 The American surgeon Selzer writes with a light touch about deep things
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 | Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £1.70 A truly great historical novelist, here covering the last forty years
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 | Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 A deft and ambitious combination of history and novel writing, with Freud that great unmentioned name hovering behind it all
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £4.69 A great modern tale of life in Afghanistan over the last few decades
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 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.05 A pinch of exquisite life - and joy - from France during the war
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 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 Why read fiction when real life stories can be so much more exciting?
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