Recommended Reading

Association of American Medical Colleges, Medical School Admissions Requirements

Louis Barnett, Jr., MD, Pebbles in the Water

John Berger, A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

Ben Carson, Gifted Hands

Ben Carson, Think Big

Raymond S. Edge and John Randall Groves, The Ethics of Health Care

Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Geri-Ann Galanti, Caring for Patients From Different Cultures: Case Studies from an American Hospital

Norman Gevitz, The D.O.'s: Osteopathic Medicine in America

Kenneth V. Iserson, Get Into Medical School! A Guide for the Perplexed

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Health Care Policy: Issues and Trends

Robert Marion, Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor

Nuland, Sherwin, The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside

Howard Rabinowitz, MD, Caring for the Country

Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Kevin M. Takakuwa, ed., What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors

Abraham Verghese, My Own Country

Carmen Webb, ed., Taking My Place in Medicine: A Guide for Minority Medical Students