COM Dean's Bookshelf

Bookshelf copies donated by: Patricia K. Watson, MD and Amy Waer, MD
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Chrysanthemum is a funny and honest school story about teasing, self-esteem, and acceptance. This popular picture book has sold more than a million copies and was named a Notable Book for Children by the American Library Association.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Patricia K. Watson, MD
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Patricia K. Watson, MD
Based on twelve years of research, thought leader Dr. Brené Brown argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement and meaningful connection.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Patricia K. Watson, MD
Burke Harris’s research shows how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs—adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD, recommended by Arjun Rao.
This groundbreaking inspirational guide--a classic in the self-help genre--shows you how to put challenges in perspective, reduce stress and anxiety through small daily changes, and find the path to achieving your goals.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face of astounding obstacles.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Steven D. Brown, MD
Spanning a decade (1992-2002), these speeches echo the theme that our health care system needs fundamental change and a revolutionary new design.
The book link is to the e-book from NetLibrary.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
This work presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness - the diagnosis - revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Chris Ortigoza and family
A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.
The book link is to the e-book from Project Gutenberg.

Bookshelf copies donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD and Amy Fairchild, PhD
A fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick".
The book link may be used to "Get It For Me"

Bookshelf copy donated by: Patricia K. Watson, MD
A motivational and inspiring guide to wholehearted living, Brené Brown, Ph.D., bolsters the self-esteem and personal development process through her characteristic heartfelt, honest storytelling.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, students, educators, athletes, and business people both seasoned and new that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls grit.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
In his fifth year at Hogwart's, Harry faces challenges at every turn, from the dark threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the unreliability of the government of the magical world to the rise of Ron Weasley as the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil. Harry searches for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thereby finds what may be his only vulnerability.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
It all comes down to this - a final faceoff between good and evil.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
When Lisa Fain, a seventh-generation Texan, moved to New York City, she missed the big sky, the bluebonnets in spring, Friday night football, and her family's farm. But most of all, she missed the foods she'd grown up with.
With more than 125 recipes, The Homesick Texan offers a true taste of the Lone Star State.
The book link may be used to "Get It For Me"

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Drawing on 40 years of research and patient care, Dr. Wayne Jonas explains how 80 percent of healing occurs organically and how to activate the healing process.
The book link may be used to "Get It For Me"

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Garza shares, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Wade G. Birch, Ed.D.
Surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Curley shares the empowering lessons he's learned over 25 years from his cancer patients' unique stories of struggle, perseverance, and triumph.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Amy Waer, MD
Sheryl Sandberg -- Facebook COO and one of "Fortune" magazine's most powerful women in business -- looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Steven Z. Pantilat, MD
A renowned expert in palliative care, Dr. Pantilat delivers a compassionate and sensitive guide to living well with serious illness. He offers advice on how to tackle the most difficult treatment decisions and discussions and shows readers how to choose treatments that help more than they hurt, stay consistent with their values and personal goals, and live as well as possible for as long as possible.
The book link may be used to "Get It For Me"

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD, recommended by Arjun Rao.
People with a fixed mindset--those who believe that abilities are fixed--are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset--those who believe that abilities can be developed.
The book link is to the e-book from Ebsco.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
The true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most.
The book link may be used to "Get It For Me"

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
In remembrance of a joyful evening at dinner in my home with Dr. Long, class of ’58, and students Samantha K. Fine, Kayla D. Daniels, Catherine J. Fergie, and Tiffany L. Holland
A story of medicine in the heartland and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Johnson City had seemed exempt from anxieties of modern American life, but when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had seemed an "urban problem" arrived in town to stay.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Emily Wilson, PhD
Natural Obsessions explores the advanced reaches of molecular biology, the nature of the human cell, and the genes that control cancer. It unforgettably portrays some of the best young scientists in the world, the rewards and discouragements of scientific research, and the very process of scientific inquiry.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Acclaimed pediatrician, journalist, and novelist Perri Klass offers a provocative look at the ups and downs of medical school from those first exams to the day she became a doctor.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Gul A. Russell, PhD
It is the humanity in medicine that has inspired the pens of countless writers, and that has now been captured in this remarkable anthology of medical literature.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Gul A. Russell, PhD
Sir William Osler (1849-1919), one of the world's most influential physicians at the turn of the twentieth century, remained popular after his death largely due to his inspirational texts. Charles Bryan has successfully framed the great physician's message in contemporary, easily accessible terms, allowing modern readers to rediscover the appeal and pragmatism of Osler's writings.
The book link may be used to "Get It For Me"

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a story of a remarkably single-minded young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith.

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
It wasn't supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn't the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? Ticker takes us on an unforgettable journey into the power and mystery of the human heart.
The book link may be used to "Get It For Me"

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it,

Bookshelf copy donated by: Carrie L. Byington, MD
A profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?