It is that time of year when you should be reading, reading, reading!! Not
biochemistry or physics but books about the lives of doctors and their
patients.  The NAAHP website has an extensive bibliography that is partially
annotated that should prove helpful.

Also good are two new books out by Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes
on Performance, published April 3, 2007; and by Jerome Groopman, How Doctors
Think, published March 19, 2007.  Gawande writes especially well, and most
of the chapters in his books appear first as essays in The New Yorker.  And
many of your verbal passages come from the New Yorker! 


http://www.naahp.org/resources_Bibliography.htm

I would also add to the reading list Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His
Wife for a Hat. This  book is  a refreshing look at how a caring physician
interacts with  patients. It also helps students understand people who might
be a little
different. The book is not technical so any pre-med student would
understand it. FYI, Oliver Sacks is the physician that was portrayed in
the movie Awakenings.>  
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