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I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Montaigne, Frost, Greville, memoirs of cancer patients—anything by anyone who had ever written about mortality.

Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

between a journalist and a mafia made man. The doer wins by

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

‘such as are craftsmen therein’; and, as a last resort in case of gangrene, amputation might be performed

Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)

Je constatai que la relationnalité humaine sur laquelle j’avais disserté en licence s’enracinait dans les rapports docteur-patient.

Paul Kalanithi • Quand le souffle rejoint le ciel (Essais et documents) (French Edition)

The famously mistreated Austro-Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis had observed that more women died giving birth in hospitals than giving birth on the street. He called the establishment doctors a bunch of criminals—which

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle

Clinical excellence,

Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

As a doctor, I was an agent, a cause; as a patient, I was merely something to which things happened.

Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

high stakes litigation or a surgeon saving your life.

David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth

the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.