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Health Care Books
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.49 — 195,488 ratings — published 2014
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,398 ratings — published 2009
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,207 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.33 — 104,460 ratings — published 2010
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,962 ratings — published 2015
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.27 — 49,532 ratings — published 2013
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.04 — 69,847 ratings — published 2009
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,464 ratings — published 2019
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.40 — 692,132 ratings — published 2016
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.20 — 84,145 ratings — published 1997
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.25 — 34,894 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.12 — 747,636 ratings — published 2010
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.19 — 85,305 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,590 ratings — published 2013
Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,500 ratings — published 2012
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,094 ratings — published 2008
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,805 ratings — published 2007
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,269 ratings — published 1982
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.90 — 384 ratings — published 2006
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,400 ratings — published 2015
Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.99 — 729 ratings — published 2014
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,924 ratings — published 2012
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,752 ratings — published 2003
Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.34 — 492 ratings — published 2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.08 — 41,398 ratings — published 2018
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,826 ratings — published 2012
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.14 — 980 ratings — published 2010
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.34 — 40,284 ratings — published 2021
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.40 — 291,127 ratings — published 2017
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,624 ratings — published 2018
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.30 — 455 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.06 — 223,169 ratings — published 2003
Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.85 — 157 ratings — published 2004
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.80 — 601 ratings — published 2007
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.54 — 109,170 ratings — published 2021
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.18 — 321 ratings — published 2021
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,445 ratings — published 2019
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,234 ratings — published 2015
White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.85 — 547 ratings — published 2010
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.09 — 223,193 ratings — published 2012
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,336 ratings — published 2000
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,829 ratings — published 1994
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,061 ratings — published 2011
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.31 — 209 ratings — published 2008
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,296 ratings — published 2009
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,435 ratings — published 1972
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.01 — 959 ratings — published 2007
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,097 ratings — published 2020
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as health-care)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,025 ratings — published 2022
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as health-care)
avg rating 3.82 — 294 ratings — published 2020
“The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.”
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“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry.”
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