This year's annual list of my favorite reads includes two works of fiction and eight real-life narratives about cancer, the history of medicine, rural family practice, and urban street medicine. As usual, I have listed them alphabetically by title rather than in any order of preference. For more great titles, feel free to peruse my lists from 2022, 2021, and 2015-2020. Other than the occasional free book to review for Family Medicine, I don't receive anything for reading or sharing them.
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1. Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action, by David Fajgenbaum
2. From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer, by Elaine Schattner
4. The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity’s Deadliest Diseases, by Andrew Lam
5. Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert: My Life Among the Navajo People, by Erica Elliott
6. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, A Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice, by Benjamin Gilmer
7. Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People, by Tracy Kidder
8. Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
