Prescribed reading: 16 books that inspire doctors, chosen by you
Moving memoirs to get rich quick guides, these are the books that have impacted doctors in their personal and professional lives.
From a book on hypertension written by two economists through to a hilarious hospital classic, doctors say books have saved them and even inspired their career choices.
When asked by 6minutes to name a book with a significant impact on their professional or personal life, doctors nominated titles as varied as Viktor Frankl’s memoir, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
For Dr Christopher Jones, Samuel Shem’s fictional The House of God and its descriptions of life as a junior doctor was a lifeline.
“It helped me survive my intern year.”
