Medicine/General Resource List

BOOKS
Most of the books below are available at amazon.co.uk or amazon.com, and if you don't want to order
them, you can get most books in Kindle edition - meaning you can read them on your phone/laptop/tablet/
kindle. If not, you can always try bookstores here in Bahrain. This is just a resource list, and there is no
need to read ALL the books. One or two is enough.
Medical - Ethics
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, Ben Goldacre, Faber &
Faber
Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, Tony Hope, Oxford University Press
Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction, Charles A. Foster, Oxford University Press
Medical - Practice
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande, Picador
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande, Picador
Medical - Genetics
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins, W. W. Norton & Company
General
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, Ben Goldacre, Faber & Faber
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right, Atul Gawande, Picador
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande, Picador
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, Farrar Straus and Giroux
Think Like A Freak, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt &
Stephen J. Dubner, Harper Perennial
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life
Insurance, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow
MEDICAL-THEMED FILMS

Fire in the Blood, 2012 , History/Documentary

Dallas Buyers Club, 2013 , Drama/History
The Doctor, 1991, Drama
Yesterday, 2004, Drama
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, 1975, Drama
M.A.S.H. , 1970, Comedy & Drama
Wit, 2001, Drama
Philadelphia, 1993, Drama

SCIENCE VIDEOES/YOUTUBE CHANNELS

Medicine Videos
- TED Talks (Topic List) - https://www.ted.com/topics
Choose a topic and video playlists of TED Talks relating to the chosen topic will show up. Topics include:
Health, Medicine, Public Health, AIDs, Bacteria, Biology, Biotech, Cancer, Obesity

YouTube Channels
- Healthcare Triage - youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage
- SciShow - youtube.com/user/scishow
- Vsauce - youtube.com/user/Vsauce
- Veritasium - youtube.com/user/1veritasium
- CrashCourse - youtube.com/user/crashcourse
- Khan Academy: Medicine - youtube.com/user/khanacademymedicine

WEBSITES

Student BMJ: The International Medical Journal for Students - student.bmj.com

BBC Health - bbc.com/news/health
New Scientist - newscientist.com
The Lancet - thelancet.com
FutureLearn (free online uni courses to give a taste of what its like to study at uni) - futurelearn.com
Medical Schools Council: Student Section - medschools.ac.uk/students
BMA (British Medical Association) - bma.org.uk
GMC: FAQs - gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergraduate_faqs.asp
GMC: Good Medical Practice Guide - gmc-uk.org/guidance/good_medical_practice.asp