I hope each of you has a moment of downtime over this holiday season. One of the ways I relax is with a good book. Here’s a piece I wrote for Student Doctor Network regarding great books for doctors in training.
In addition to the list, I want to add another strong recommendation: Pulitzer Prize Finalist Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air. Get ready to cry your eyes out, while appreciating beautiful prose and insightful content. Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer when he was a senior neurosurgery resident at Stanford. He chronicles his short life in a book that’s hard to put down.
