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The Book Club Health Check

WEBLuckily, there are things your book club can do to proactively manage conflict, or even prevent issues arising in the first place. Just as many of us have an annual checkup at …

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Review of When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

WEBWinner of the 2016 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award. When Breath Becomes Air is the autobiography of Paul Kalanithi, written in the time period between his being diagnosed …

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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande: Summary and reviews

WEBPlease be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers! The recipient of numerous awards and widespread acclaim, Atul Gawande's Being Mortal has secured a position …

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Wellness by Nathan Hill: Summary and reviews

WEBBook Summary. The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and …

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How Heathy Is Your Book Club

WEBHow Heathy Is Your Book Club? Just as many of us have an annual checkup at the doctor, an annual book club "health check" can help prevent a group from stagnating or prevent …

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Summary and reviews of Legacy by Uché Blackstock MD

WEBLegacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to …

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Summary and reviews of The Emergency by Thomas Fisher

WEBBeautifully written, vulnerable and deeply empathetic, The Emergency is a call for reform that offers a fresh vision of health care as a foundation of social justice. This information …

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The People's Hospital

WEBWhere does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow …

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

WEBBookBrowse's Favorite Quotes. 'Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.'. Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, on November 30, 1835, in …

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Summary and reviews of The Healing of America by T.R. Reid

WEBThe Healing of America lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. Reid sees …

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Summary and reviews of Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich

WEBMedia Reviews "A powerful text that floods the mind with illumination - and with agonizing questions." - Kirkus "Claiming to be 'old enough to die,' feminist scholar Ehrenreich …

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Summary and reviews of The Hospital by Brian Alexander

WEBAmericans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will solve America's health crisis until the deeper causes of that crisis are addressed. Bryan, …

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Atul Gawande author biography

WEBAtul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is Professor in the …

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Reading guide for Home by Toni Morrison

WEBAs a black man in Georgia, Frank endured daily injustices, and he and Cee are shattered by buried secrets and horrible visions of racial violence. Home follows the classic structure …

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6 Novels for Book Clubs That Reflect on Reproductive Rights

WEBThe Gilded Hour by Sara Donati Sep 2015. 752 pages Published by Berkley Books This work of historical fiction following two female physicians in 19th-century New York is a …

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Summary and reviews of Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa

WEBFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in …

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Summary and reviews of Twelve Patients by Eric Manheimer

WEBBook Summary. "Manheimer offers a window onto a unique hospital and the wisdom of a healer who tends with equal skill to patients and the world." - Publishers Weekly. In the …

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The Price We Pay by Marty Makary: Summary and reviews

WEBDrawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive money …

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Summary and reviews of Insane by Alisa Roth

WEBBook Summary. An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons. America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and …

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