If you simply enjoy (for entertainment purposes not as learning tools) medicine-related TV shows or books, continue to read:
I’ve compiled a list of my favorites and a few I plan to watch (Please add your favs!). I’ve included where you can find each item as well. If not marked as FREE, it will cost ya to view it (unless you find it free elsewhere).
Not ranked, listed as they come to mind…
“Reality”/Un-Scripted or Documentary
NOVA: Doctors’ Diaries (follows 7 Harvard grads for 20 years starting from med school) Purchase full docu on Amazon or on you tube FREE but as clips or portions of the docu. LINK TO AMAZON
Boston Med: FREE YouTube LINK
NY Med: Amazon LINK
Hopkins: FREE YouTube LINK
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Airing on TLC LINK TO TLC WEBSITE
TED Talks: Doctors on the Cusp: Netflix
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale: Netflix
National Geographic, Stress: Portrait of a Killer: Netflix
Money and Medicine: Netflix
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders: Netflix
Strange Medicine: Airing on Fusion LINK TO FUSION WEBSITE
Junior Doctors: (U.K.) FREE YouTube LINK
Frontline for Hope (St. Louis Children’s Hospital series) FREE YouTube LINK
Scripted
Monroe: (U.K.) Acorn/YouTube LINK
Doc Martin (U.K. Movies and spin off TV series): Netflix season 1-5 and season 6 on Acorn/YouTube LINK FOR ACORN/YOUTUBE
Emily Owens, M.D.: Netflix
Grey’s Anatomy: Airing on ABC or Netflix or Amazon
A Gifted Man: Netflix (I heart Patrick Wilson)
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story: Netflix
Books
Just a few books I did read and enjoyed, all on Amazon…
Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar LINK
On Becoming a Doctor: Everything You Need to Know about Medical School, Residency, Specialization, and Practice… by Tania Heller LINK
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman LINK
I also enjoyed Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder and just started Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese.
Thanks for this list! Just wanted to add that you can watch the Doctors’ Diaries free on the NOVA website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/doctor s-diaries…
I’m reading “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” right now - very interesting!
Amazon link
Stiff was so good and intriguing!