My Own Country

My Own Country

By
Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese
1994 • 416 pages

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45 books

My Books2

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UTOPIAS /ANGLAIS
The Hungry Tide
The Rhinemann Exchange
The Accidental Prime Minister
House of Chains
The Bonehunters
Ashoka The Great

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57 books

Healthcare

Indyrey
Indy
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Botany of Desire
Food Rules
Second Nature
Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm

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101 books

Medicine

SettingShadow
Becca
Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Treatment kind and fair
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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58 books

Favorites

SettingShadow
Becca
Ender's Game
The Sparrow
The Amber Spyglass
Fragile Things
Bellwether
A Home at the End of the World
Impossible Things

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200 books

Non Fiction

SettingShadow
Becca
Go Ask Alice
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Art of Possibility
Autobiography of a Face

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68 books

Autobiographical

SettingShadow
Becca
The Game
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Julie & Julia
The Doctor Stories
My Own Country
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Self-Made Man

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126 books

Health

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Deb Nance
Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story Of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way To Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!
My Own Country
Living Oprah
The Spare Room
Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things

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271 books

Memoir

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Deb Nance
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
The Egg and I
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

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305 books

Healing

DebNance
Deb Nance
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
The boy who grew flowers
The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit
Perrault's Fairy Tales
Skellig
Unbroken
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

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162 books

Fiction

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Kevin H Souza
The Night Before Christmas: A Classic Illustrated Edition
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
Travels with Charley
Brokeback Mountain
More Tales of the City
Further Tales of the City

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93 books

Medicine

Knightingale
Jarrad Maiers
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
The Debt Trap
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
Pathologies of Power
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms U.S. Health Care

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40 books

Etc For Medicine

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Wilhelm Kierkegaard Warholm
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

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53 books

Doctor And Healthcare

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Saul
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
How We Die
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness