/lit/ - Literature

Ein Landarzt

Everything by Atul Gawande
Intern Blues
Trauma Room Two
Everything by Henry Marsh
House of God
Confessions of a Surgeon
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
Hot Lights, Cold Steel

these helped me beecause of the vivid portrayals of what it is to die or face death that you can find there:
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
The Wall - Sartre
Phaedo - Plato
i'm 4th year medical school
hope it helps

>>12148554
>I want to be a doctor
Surmising from your post, you're in it for the title, not the interest. If you're genuinely interested in medicine, you should at the very least have an idea what specialty you want to get into not just "being a doctor". The best physicians knew what they wanted to do long before they went into medical school.
If you need to read books for inspiration and are not already reading the medical journals on your own initiative, then I'm afraid to say you should reconsider being a physician. Most physicians aren't good at what they do because their impetus for getting into medicine was founded on one of these three things, the want of 'helping people', the prestige, or the money rather than holding a genuine fascination of medicine. This means, they don't bother searching for journal articles and are self-assured in all diagnoses; confined by useless maxims, which they project onto more talented physicians whenever they go beyond their cookie cutter on-label approach. A wise man knows what he doesn't and explores out of curiosity other hypotheses as intensely as he can. Unfortunately, the aforementioned motives are what drives most to get into medicine which means most people are not that talented or intelligent.
As to examples, contemporary examples of inspirational physicians are few and far between. The ones of the past are more fascinating, even if they were a little crazy. Even walking through a hospital wing and seeing portraits of the head physicians, you can see the decline in the stock of them as the years progressed. The writing in the journals have also declined. The language was once complex and illustrious, now it's simpletons trying to sound smart. Remove the technical jargon, and you'll see that the passion in even journal publications has declined.

>>12148826
>have an idea what specialty you want to get into not just "being a doctor"
Why? Assume OP has no knowledge of what medicine is and go from there. One doesn't know what they will discover when they begin research. In the same sense, don't chose a specialty when your mind is under the blanket of ignorance.

>The best physicians knew what they wanted to do long before they went into medical school.
Citation needed.

> Most physicians aren't good at what they do because their impetus for getting into medicine was founded on one of these three things, the want of 'helping people', the prestige, or the money rather than holding a genuine fascination of medicine.
Citation needed.

>This means, they don't bother searching for journal articles and are self-assured in all diagnoses; confined by useless maxims, which they project onto more talented physicians whenever they go beyond their cookie cutter on-label approach
Citation needed. You are saying that OP should reconsider being a doctor because he wants to read some books to get acquainted with the subject and culture it entails. Then in the same breath you condemn those who are in it for superficial and extrinsic motivation. Do you not see the contradiction? You are blind trying to lead the blind. Don't do that.

>Unfortunately, the aforementioned motives are what drives most to get into medicine which means most people are not that talented or intelligent.
That is not logically consistent. Just because people are driven by money doesn't mean passion automatically won't be cultivated in them. Are you not aware of the environment of medical studies? It's cutthroat and the ones who are truly passionate and take care in what they do stand taller than the rest. It is this way with everything. You sound pompous and arrogant and you're doing the exact thing that gives doctors a bad rep. Control yourself.

> now it's simpletons trying to sound smart.
Like you?

Doctor Zhivago

>>12148762
keked

Also for books check out Celine, made me want to be a doctor. Waltari's The Egyptian is also pretty good, little has really changed in the last few millennia.

regards psychiatrist

Journey to the End of the Night

>>12148826
Ironically, by peer-review, the best doctors are the ones who went in for the money.

>>12148826
I agree with most of your points but I don't think one ought to be already researching journals on his own or make up his mind before even getting into medical school .

>>12148826
based and medpilled

>>12148554
Bulgakov was a doctor himself, read:
Heart of a dog
White guard
Morphine
A young doctor's notebook