Looking for some good reads for this holiday season and the coming year? Here is my annual top ten list of health and medicine-related books (read, not necessarily published, in 2019), in alphabetical order. I've provided links to the publishers' websites for your convenience, but I don't receive any financial incentives or extra web traffic if you buy these books from them. So if one or more catch your fancy, feel free to pick up a used copy on Amazon or a free one at PaperBackSwap or your local library.
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1. The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year, by Michael Stein
2. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital, by David Oshinsky
3. Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come, by Richard Preston
4. Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, by Eric Topol
5. Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets, by Luke Dittrich
6. Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care, by Uwe Reinhardt
7. Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America, by Kate Pickert
8. Recapturing Joy in Medicine, by Amaryllis Sanchez Wohlever
9. Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey As a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad - Peter Hotez
10. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health, by Sandro Galea