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Handy Books
- On Becoming a Doctor by Tania Heller
- Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder
- Everything I Learned in Medical School: Besides All the Book Stuff, by Dr. Sujay M. Kansagra M.D.
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
- Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years, by Dr. Michael J. Collins M.D.
- Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, by Dr. Atul Gawande M.D.
- The Elements of Style by W. Strunk and E. B. White (Little red book that will show you how to write effectively. Not only useful for honing writing skills for Verbal Reasoning, but also for becoming a better writer).
- The Everything Resume Book by Nancy Schuman
- Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
- When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi