Writing in Medicine(Notes to Narratives)
Second-Year Medical Student Doctoring Course
Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Teresa L. Schraeder, M.D.
September 4, 2008
Books I mentioned in lecture:
“The Doctor Stories” by Richard Selzer
“An Anthropologist on Mars” by Oliver Sacks ("Musicophilia" is also a great book by Sacks!)
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” by Oliver Sacks
“Singular Intimacies” by Danielle Ofri
“Kitchen Table Wisdom” by Rachel N. Remen
“Wit” (a play) by Margaret Edson
“Sin and Syntax” by Constance Hale
“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser
“The Elements of Style” by William Strunk and E.B. White
“The Healing Art” by Rafael Campo
“Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” by Atul Gawande
“Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” by Atul Gawande
“Forty Stories” by Anton Chekhov
“How Doctors Think” by Jerome Groopman
“Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors” by Susan Sontag
“The Medical Detectives” by Berton Roueché
“The Magic Mountain” by Thomas Mann
“The Lonely Patient” by Michael Stein
“Fourteen Stories” by Jay Baruch
“Body of Work” by Christine Montross
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