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Books like Do No Harm
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh is about surgery, medicine, mortality. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · Health
Being Mortal is Atul Gawande's investigation into why modern medicine is so bad at helping people die well.
Read the summary → - The Checklist Manifesto
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Atul Gawande · Health
The Checklist Manifesto is Atul Gawande's argument that the single most underused tool for preventing catastrophic failure in complex fields is also the simplest: a well-designed checklist.
Read the summary → - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Science
The Emperor of All Maladies is Siddhartha Mukherjee's account of cancer from antiquity to the present — its biology, its treatments, its false dawns, and the scientists and patients caught in the middle of each.
Read the summary → - Complications
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Atul Gawande · Health
Complications is Atul Gawande's first collection of essays, drawn from his New Yorker writing and his early years as a surgical resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
Read the summary → - 10% Happier
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Dan Harris · Memoir
10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.
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