The Doctor’s Book Club Siddhartha Mukherjee—The Gene All is now secure and fast; Not the gods can shake the Past; Flies-to the adamantine door Bolted down forevermore. Ralph Waldo Emerson […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Rebecca Skloot—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks On 27 August 1963, Emanuel Mandel, the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (JCDH), told his […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Ben Winters Underground Airlines My country tis of thee, Late land of slavery, Of thee I sing. Land where my father’s pride Slept where my mother […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Emma Donoghue’s Room And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. —Sylvia Plath “Lady […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. -F. Scott Fitzgerald, […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Lily King’s Euphoria The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls of […]
The Doctors’ Book Club Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See Rich men, trust not in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health; Physic himself must fade. All things to […]
The Doctors’ Book Club Adam Johnson The Orphan Master’s Son After her son was arrested by the secret police, Anna Akhmatova spent seventeen months waiting outside the Leningrad prisons for news […]
The Doctors’ Book Club Haruki Murakami’s The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Invoking the ubiquity of sadness, Emily Dickinson writes: “I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, […]
