Category: Book Review
November 10th, 2024
A BIOGRAPHY OF A MOST COMPLEX EMPEROR, a book review by Jim Vogele
THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, a Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee (Publisher: Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.) (2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-0795-9 A…
August 4th, 2024
WHAT’S HEART GOT TO DO WITH IT? a book review, Jim Vogele
WHAT DOCTORS FEEL, How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine, by Danielle Ofri, MD (Pub: Beacon Press) (2013) ISBN 978-0-8070-7332-2 INTRODUCTION Dr. Danielle…
June 26th, 2024
IS THE DOCTOR IN, OR IS THE DOCTOR WRITING POETRY? A book review by Jim Vogele
THE DOCTOR STORIES by William Carlos Williams compiled by Robert Coles (Publisher: New Directions Books) 1962, Williams; 1984 Introduction, Coles, ISBN 978-0-8112-0926-7 INTRODUCTION …
April 5th, 2024
DOCTORS, WRITERS, AND READERS – a book review by Jim Vogele
NORTH WOODS by Daniel Mason, MD (Publisher: Random House) 2023, ISBN 9780593597033 [Hardback] Since publishing this website for Montana, Washington, California, and Oregon physician…
February 11th, 2024
THANK GOODNESS, JOAN IS OKAY AFTER ALL, a book review by Jim W. Vogele
JOAN IS OKAY by Weike Wang, (Publisher: Random House) 2022, ISBN 9780525654834 [Hardback] Weike Wang’s 2022 novel, JOAN IS OKAY, came to…
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…
July 1st, 2022
THE SCIENCE AND ART OF WRITING ABOUT DOCTORS: A Book Review by Jim Vogele
July 1, 2022 Letter to a Young Female Physician, Notes from a Medical Life by Suzanne Koven, M.D. (New York: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2021)…
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,…
