Category: Book Review
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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: …
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…
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,…
