This Book Club series led by Dr. Nikita Joshi (@NJoshi8) and Dr. Jordana Haber (@JoJoHaber), introduces you to books that are pertinent to medical practice and the culture of medical education. Discussion will be held every other month. The goal is to share books, both nonfiction and fiction, medical and not, that can deepen our clinical practice and commitment to delivering great medical education to learners. Whether you are a physician, nurse, paramedic, or allied health care provider, we would love for you to join in on the discussion on this blog.
ALiEM Book Club: Beyond the ED Series
The ALiEM Book Club’s Beyond the ED Series headed by Dr. Taku Taira (@TakuTaira) is meant to be a way to share books that leaders within the medical community love and treasure without having the usual bookclub discussion associated with it. These books are sure to challenge and enrich the reader.
Suggestions
There are so many great books out there and not enough time to get to them. Please let us know if you come across any book that you feel would be worthwhile reading as a part of our book club!
Previous books
| Date | Book | Author | Book Discussion and Commentary |
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| January 2020 | Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor | Sylvia Ann Hewlett | Blog Link |
| December 2016 | Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations | Dan Roam | Blog Link |
| November 20, 2016 | Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All | David and Tom Kelley | Blog Link |
| October 16, 2016 | On the Move: A Life | Oliver Sacks | Blog Link |
| August 14, 2016 | A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back | Kevin Hazzard | Blog Link |
| June 10, 2016 | The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age | Robert Wachter | Blog Link |
| May 13, 2016 | Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | Blog Link |
| April 8, 2016 | When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | Blog Link |
| March 12, 2016 | Steal Like An Artist | Austin Kleon | Blog Link |
| February 12, 2016 | Bouncebacks! Emergency Department Cases: ED Returns | Michael B. Weinstock, Ryan Longstreth, Gregory L. Henry | Blog Link |
| January 15, 2016 | Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
| Svetlana Alexievich | Blog Link |
| January 8, 2016 | A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories | John Murray | Blog Link |
| November 17, 2015 | Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine
| Kenneth Ludmerer | Blog Link |
| October 9, 2015 | Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
| Sam Quinones | Blog Link |
| August 14, 2015 | The White Coat Investor: A Doctor’s Guide To Personal Finance And Investing
| James M. Dahle | Blog Link |
| July 10, 2015 | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | Blog Link |
| June 12, 2015 | How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking | Jordan Ellenberg | Blog Link |
| May 8, 2015 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | Blog Link |
| April 10, 2015 | The Art of Choosing | Sheena Iyengar | Blog Link |
| March 21, 2015 | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande | Blog Link |
| February 13, 2015 | The Emperor of all Maladies | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Blog Link |
| January 16, 2015 | Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness | Susannah Cahalan | Blog Link |
| December 12, 2014 | Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions | Gerd Gigerenzer | Blog Link |
| November 21, 2014 | Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling | Edgar Schein | Blog Link |
| October 10, 2014 | When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests | Leana Wen and Joshua Kosowsky | Blog Link |
| September 19, 2014 | A History of Present Illness: Stories | Louise Aronson | Blog Link |
| July 11, 2014 | David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell | Blog Link |
| May 12, 2014 | How We Die | Sherwin Nuland | Blog Link |
| March 14, 2014 | What Doctors Feel | Danielle Ofri | Blog Link |
| February 14, 2014 | Drive | Daniel Pink | Blog Link |
| January 10, 2014 | One Room School House | Salman Khan | Blog Link |
| December 13, 2013 | Five Days at Memorial | Sheri Fink | Blog Link
Google Hangout on Air |
| November 8, 2013 | Interpreter of Maladies – A short story “Temporary Matter”
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Blog Link
Podcast Wrap Up |
| October 11, 2013 | The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work | Shawn Achor | Blog Link
Google Hangout on Air video |
| September 13, 2012 | House of God | Samuel Shem | Blog Link |
| August 9, 2013 | The Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande | Blog Link
Curated Commentary |
| July 19, 2013 | Difficult Conversations
| D Stone, B Patton, S Heen | Blog Link |
| June 28, 2013 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | Blog Link |
Past Book Club Leadership
Dr. Teresa Chan (@TChanMD)
Dr. Brent Thoma (@Brent_Thoma)
* Disclaimer: We have no affiliations financial or otherwise with the authors, the books, hyperlinks, videos or Amazon.
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 resuscitations that can spiral into these dangerous arenas. Even if we don’t always know the exact cause, we know the mantra of ABCs and we stick to it until the end. The very last end… But the end of what? Where is the dignity in resuscitating a body that has already died? Ultimately the question becomes, are we as practitioners as well versed in letting go, in letting the body die, and then ultimately explaining that process to the family?
