Book Club

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Join our hosts as they explore various genres in medical literature either for intellectual sustenance or for joy and entertainment. The ReachMD Book Club will introduce authors and topics to enliven and transform your reading experience. This series features a diverse array of medically-centered genres such as biographies and autobiographies, historicals, and contemporary fiction/non-fiction.

Episode Date
A Look into a Clinician’s Perspective on Psychiatry
May 01, 2023
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
Sep 13, 2022
The Whole Body Reset
Jun 17, 2022
Lifelines: A Physician's Fight for Public Health
Jan 25, 2022
Fevers, Feuds, & Diamonds: Exploring the Ebola Epidemic
Jun 08, 2021
Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician's Story of Addiction, Depression, & Recovery
Feb 05, 2021
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, & Mysteries of Blood
Feb 02, 2021
COVID-19 Essays from the Front: The First Six Months
Jan 11, 2021
Surrounded by Others & Yet So Alone
Aug 12, 2020
Conquer the Clutter: Strategies to Identify, Manage, & Overcome Hoarding
Apr 21, 2020
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, & Happiness Through INTUITIVE EATING
Mar 05, 2020
Birth Rights & Wrongs: How Medicine & Technology Are Remaking Reproduction & the Law
Nov 08, 2019
Bottles of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Aug 22, 2019
Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Jul 24, 2019
Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: When Mass Hysteria Strikes
Jul 03, 2019
The Locum Life: A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens
Jul 03, 2019
Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: The Challenge of Healing After a Headshot
Apr 11, 2019
Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: Houston, We Have a (Health) Problem
Apr 11, 2019
Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: The (Disregarded) Value of Vaccines
Apr 11, 2019
Bits from "Bullets and Brains": Taking the Sting out of Scorpion Venom
Mar 01, 2019
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
Jan 08, 2019
Dr. Google Is a Liar
Jan 08, 2019
Debut a New You: Transforming Your Life at Any Age
Dec 12, 2018
The Performance of Medicine
Nov 16, 2018
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Nov 16, 2018
The Bad Food Bible: How & Why to Eat Sinfully
Aug 21, 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Aug 21, 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, & the Drug Company That Addicted America
Jul 27, 2018
Beauty in the Broken Places: Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
Jul 27, 2018
Coping with Career Burnout: A Physician's Journey Through Renaissance Art
May 24, 2018
Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections of Life on the Transplant List
Mar 05, 2018
High Price: How A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery is Challenging Society's Perception on Drugs
Feb 19, 2018
In Shock: One Doctor's Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
Jan 26, 2018
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, & the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Jan 26, 2018
An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate, Connected Patient Care
Jan 19, 2018
Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Children's Developing Immune System
Oct 27, 2017
The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies are Changing the Way We Have Kids - and the Kids We Have
Sep 23, 2017
Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care—And Why We’re Usually Wrong
Sep 06, 2017
The Angry Smile: Exploring the Psychological Impacts of Passive-Aggressive Behavior
Aug 25, 2017
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear: A Guide to Improving Patient Communication
Aug 25, 2017
The Hospitalist: A Novel About the Perils of 21st Century Medicine
Aug 12, 2017
Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Jun 12, 2017
Transgender Children & Youth: Cultivating Pride & Joy with Families in Transition
May 15, 2017
Dorothy in a Man's World: An Inside Look at the Life and Career of Dr. Dorothy Mendenhall
May 05, 2017
Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
Apr 08, 2017
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Mar 29, 2017
Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker & Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
Mar 28, 2017
Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Mar 19, 2017
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop
Feb 05, 2017
Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade: The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer's Journey
Jan 23, 2017
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflection on Race & Medicine
Jan 16, 2017
We CAN Fix Healthcare: The Future is NOW
Jan 10, 2017
Miracles We Have Seen: Astonishing Medical Stories That Defy Logic
Jan 03, 2017
The Big Five: Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life
Oct 24, 2016
Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
Oct 12, 2016
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, & Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
Oct 10, 2016
The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
Aug 22, 2016
1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Weird Cures from the Annals of Medicine
Aug 15, 2016
Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs
Jul 25, 2016
10% Happier: How a Journalist Found Self-Help That Actually Works
Jun 21, 2016
Overcoming Destructive Anger: Strategies That Work
Jun 06, 2016
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Apr 18, 2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola & Beyond
Mar 21, 2016
Overcoming the Odds: A Physician's Journey from the Streets of Louisiana to the War on Terrorism in Iraq
Feb 22, 2016
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
Jan 25, 2016
Should I Fire My Doctor? Eleven Essential Elements to Living Well Aware
Dec 28, 2015
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
Dec 21, 2015
The Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury
Dec 14, 2015
Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
Sep 14, 2015
Changing Outcomes: A Financial Recovery Strategy for Peak-Career Physicians
Sep 07, 2015
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
Aug 31, 2015
Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
Aug 24, 2015
Stealth Medicine in the White House: the Secret Heart Disease of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Aug 17, 2015
Young Doctors and The Perils of Instant Financial Gratification: Guiding Physicians Entering Practice
Aug 03, 2015
Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport
Jul 27, 2015
Hunger, Hope & Healing by Sarahjoy Marsh
Jul 20, 2015
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Jul 06, 2015
Heal Your Heart: The Positive Emotions Prescription to Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease
Jul 03, 2015
Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization
Jun 22, 2015
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
May 11, 2015
Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
May 11, 2015
The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
Apr 27, 2015
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
Apr 06, 2015
Exercise Will Hurt You: Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury, and How the Dangers of Sports and Exercise Can Affect Your Health
Mar 09, 2015
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Feb 09, 2015
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness
Dec 22, 2014
The Other Talk: A Guide to Talking with Your Adult Children About the Rest of Your Life
Sep 22, 2014
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Sep 16, 2014
The Diabetes Breakthrough: Dr. Osama Hamdy on his 12-week Plan
Aug 27, 2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 2
Jul 25, 2014
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
Jul 23, 2014
Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
Jul 17, 2014
The Witch in the Waiting Room: A Physician Investigates Paranormal Phenomena in Medicine
Jul 17, 2014
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
Jul 15, 2014
On the Art of Caring
May 05, 2014
Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why
May 05, 2014
Advice to the Healer: On the Art of Caring
Apr 25, 2014
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
Apr 24, 2014
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Apr 24, 2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 1
Mar 03, 2014
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
Mar 02, 2014
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Mar 02, 2014
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Feb 18, 2014
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Feb 17, 2014
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
Jan 30, 2014
Pox: An American History
Jan 29, 2014
Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Jan 19, 2014
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
Jan 19, 2014
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Nov 13, 2013
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
Nov 13, 2013
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Sep 23, 2013
Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
Aug 21, 2013
The Power of Habit
Jul 09, 2013
God's Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
May 18, 2013
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
May 07, 2013
The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit
May 01, 2013
The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
Apr 18, 2013
Bringing Spirituality Into the Hospital
Oct 15, 2008
Coping Strategies for Patients Growing up With Chronic Illness
Jul 28, 2008
Statins & The Stanley Cup: a Patient's Challenges with Heart Disease
May 27, 2008
My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey
May 27, 2008
Alice Stewart: The Woman Who Knew Too Much
May 21, 2008
Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies
May 07, 2008
When Doctors Become Patients: How Wounded Healers Heal Best
Apr 23, 2008
Insomniac: A Doctor's Personal Journey
Apr 01, 2008
The Longevity Bible: 8 Essential Strategies for Keeping Your Mind Sharp and Your Body Young
Apr 01, 2008
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Part 2
Mar 21, 2008
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Part 1
Mar 21, 2008
Cancer on $5 a Day (Chemo Not Included)
Mar 10, 2008
Revolution In Mind: Freud's Beginnings and the Creation of Psychoanalysis
Mar 04, 2008
The History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: a Retrospective with Author Aine Collier
Mar 04, 2008
Birth Control Through the Ages: A Historical Tour
Mar 04, 2008
The Humble Little Condom: A History, by Aine Collier
Mar 04, 2008
A Physician's Chronicle of His Intern Year
Feb 19, 2008
Will Science Replace Religion?
Feb 19, 2008
Science and Nonbelief: a Discussion on Religion's Place in Scientific Communities
Feb 19, 2008
Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
Jan 30, 2008
Too Young to Feel Old: The Arthritis Doctor's 28-Day Formula for Pain-Free Living
Jan 25, 2008
Fixing Healthcare with the "Duh" System
Jan 23, 2008
Delivering Amelia: The Story of a Young Gifted Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
Jan 17, 2008
Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love and Beating the Odds
Jan 17, 2008
Book Club: "Code Name God"
Dec 12, 2007
Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: Part 2
Nov 06, 2007
Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: Part 1
Nov 06, 2007
13 Dreams Freud Never Had: The New Mind Science
Jun 08, 2007