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Anonymous wrote:OMG, just came in here to recommend the spirit catches you. So wonderful.

More a story of malfeasance, but Bad Blood is an absolute banger of a book—you won’t be able to put it down.

I love And the Band Played On—poignant, heartbreaking.

Do you have an opinion between And the Band Played on and How to Survive a Plague? I heard the former was great but there was a lot that was corrected in the later. I don’t know enough to know if that’s true.

And the band played on is great. I was a medical professional in NY when AIDS emerged. His story is true to the time when it was written. Very engaging storyteller.

The education of a coroner by John Bateson; San Francisco 1970s-1990s autobiography and stories.

I’ve read and enjoyed many of the books listed. Not quite the same, but “Empire of Pain” is worth a read.

A fatal inheritance about cancer and genetics

Dreamland and Dopesick. ...both about the opiod crisis.

Anonymous wrote:Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Just read this. Yes, great book.

Also, A Fatal Inheritance, by Lawrence Ingrassia. Published pretty recently, parallel stories about the scientific discovery of Li-Fraumeni syndrome, and its impact on Ingrassia's own family. There were a lot of similarities to Hidden Valley Road, which I also loved.

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

About the author’s time spent in a mental hospital.

Anonymous wrote:Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

+1. great book!

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

When Breath Becomes Air

Five Days at Memorial

Agree on Verghese. His latest isn't usually the first thing I'd recommend, but it is centered around a medical mystery so perhaps right up your alley.

Jodi Picoult has several.

Miracle Creek was ok - autism

Every Note Played - ALS



Nonfiction:
The Good Nurse - hospital murders
Agree on Bad Blood
Toms River - cancer cluster
The Center Cannot Hold (Saks) - schizophrenia

Oliver sacks, the best

Hidden Valley Road

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.