My Christmas post is the 7th in an annual series listing my 10 favorite public health and health care reads of the past year. Not all of these were first published in 2022. Happy holidays and warm wishes for a healthy and rewarding New Year!
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1. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Radden Keefe
2. The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder, by Charles Graeber
3. A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, by Perri Klass
4. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It, by Marty Makary
5. Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink, by Timothy Hoff
6. Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It, by John Abramson
7. A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease, by Shilpa Ravella
8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
9. White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine, by Frank Huyler
10. Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It, by Sharman Apt Russell
