BATB score: 10/10 Strongly Recommended! Adam Kay's diary when he was serving his 6 years studies and ward life to be an aspiring doctor. You can read the emotions, the stress, and the final decision. Extremely relatable. Isn't it all of us who are trying to excel in our career, keep our partners happy, maintain a social life, keep in touch with family, drink more water, get enough sleep, smile, and be polite? Best for: all of us who’s trying

BATB score: 8.2/10 Adam Kay's diary of a doctor in the making - week of and week after Christmas entries exclusives. Best for: read "This is Going to Hurt" by Adam Kay first. Best to: share this book to your Asian parents who still believes aspiring to be a doctor, marrying a doctor, raising your kids to be doctors, are the true definition of success (spoiler alert: meh, it's not) Best as: a reminder to everyone who visits the doctor to be kind (if your day/work sucks, doctor

BATB score: 10/10 my heart cries. That's the funny thing about life. A concept of delayed gratification where one suffers for X+ years for X times more pay, more benefits, or nirvana: associates to partners, minions to C-levels, students to doctors. Not knowing that we could just die a few steps before the finish line. And how now to live when you don't know whether you have <1, =1, >1 year left. This unknown is the most depressing. my heart cries to know that one day his dau

BATB score: 10/10 🧠👁🦵🦷💪 Best for: you to buy this and have this as a well needed elementary anatomy book to educate our future generations: oesophagus, borborygmus, and coronavirus Best to: reminiscent on your childhood aspiration of becoming a doctor and making your asian parents proud Best as: a journey down memory lane to all those anatomy classes memorising medical terms for no apparent day-to-day use; seriously when was the last time you said 'gluteus maximus' in a

BATB score: 9/10 👨‍⚕️🔪💉🧬🚑 a journey of one's lifetime as a forensic pathologist - from passion, ambitions, on-the-job challenges, being challenged, solving cases, and making a difference 💯 Best to: so what's the time of death? so how did she/he died? is this murder or manslaughter? is it SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) or infanticide? Was it the cops? the mother? the boyfriend? that killed the victim? Best for: anyone who may be bored of one's own career path and wa

BATB score: 8/10 ☠️ Best for: loyal fan clubs of Atul Gawande who would like to complete all of Atul Gawande’s 4 written masterpieces 📚 Best as: did you know that sometimes doctors forget to wash their hands before conducting invasive surgery on you? Yep, that’s why the medical system and safety check and balance is loose as hell. Best to: how the solution is simply and literally a checklist to go through before every surgery, flight, investment, etc.; just a mere checklist

BATB score: 8.5/10 🩺🩻👩‍⚕️ *Disclaimer* In another life, I do wish to be a surgeon. I do have an unfair favoritism towards doctor/surgeon related books. Best to: Atul Gawande is exceptionally talented in being a surgeon, an author, and a researcher; living proof that you can be and you can nail so many things in one lifetime Best as: so many interesting topics from mysterious illnesses, to when doctors go wild, to real life cases - literally a day in a life of Atul Gawande