Category: Book Review

August 4th, 2024

WHAT’S HEART GOT TO DO WITH IT? a book review, Jim Vogele

WHAT DOCTORS FEEL, How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine, by Danielle Ofri, MD (Pub: Beacon Press) (2013) ISBN 978-0-8070-7332-2   INTRODUCTION   Dr. Danielle…

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June 26th, 2024

IS THE DOCTOR IN, OR IS THE DOCTOR WRITING POETRY? A book review by Jim Vogele

THE DOCTOR STORIES by William Carlos Williams compiled by Robert Coles (Publisher:  New Directions Books) 1962, Williams; 1984 Introduction, Coles, ISBN 978-0-8112-0926-7   INTRODUCTION  …

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April 5th, 2024

DOCTORS, WRITERS, AND READERS – a book review by Jim Vogele

NORTH WOODS by Daniel Mason, MD (Publisher:  Random House) 2023, ISBN 9780593597033 [Hardback]   Since publishing this website for Montana, Washington, California, and Oregon physician…

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February 11th, 2024

THANK GOODNESS, JOAN IS OKAY AFTER ALL, a book review by Jim W. Vogele

  JOAN IS OKAY by Weike Wang, (Publisher:  Random House) 2022, ISBN 9780525654834 [Hardback]     Weike Wang’s 2022 novel, JOAN IS OKAY, came to…

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December 3rd, 2023

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR for the ages, a book review by Jim W. Vogele

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi (Publisher:  Random House) 2016 ISBN 9780812988406 [hardback]   Introduction What can one say that would do justice to…

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November 12th, 2023

“BETTER” IS EXCELLENT a book review by Jim W. Vogele

Better, a Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, by Atul Gawande, MD, MPH (Publisher:  Picador) 2007, ISBN-13:  978-0-312-42765-8   Introduction   Reading a book about medicine while…

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August 30th, 2023

RANDOM ACTS OF BOOK REVIEWING by Jim W. Vogele

Random Acts of Medicine, The Hidden Forces that Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape our Health  by Anupam B. Jena, M.D., Ph.D. and Christopher Worsham,…

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February 13th, 2023

FREE RANGE (IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION) a Book Review by Jim Vogele

Range by David Epstein (Publisher: Riverhead Books) 2019, ISBN 978-1-5098-4350-3   Introduction David Epstein’s 2019 book, Range, How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, evidences…

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November 20th, 2022

CHEKHOV’S DOCTORS a Book Review by Jim Vogele

Chekhov’s Doctors, A Collection of Chekhov’s Medical Tales by Anton Chekhov, ed. Jack Coulehan (Publisher:  The Kent State University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-87338-780-5  The Author: …

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July 26th, 2022

IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, SOME THINGS CHANGE, AND OTHERS . . . NOT SO MUCH: A Book Review by Jim Vogele

July 26, 2022 IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, SOME THINGS CHANGE AND OTHERS . . . NOT SO MUCH:  a Book Review by Jim Vogele…

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July 1st, 2022

THE SCIENCE AND ART OF WRITING ABOUT DOCTORS: A Book Review by Jim Vogele

July 1, 2022 Letter to a Young Female Physician, Notes from a Medical Life by Suzanne Koven, M.D. (New York:  W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2021)…

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May 17th, 2022

STRENGTH IN TRANSFORMATION: a Book Review by Jim Vogele

From Strength to Strength:  Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks (Publisher:  Portfolio) Feb. 15, 2022,…

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