Several of the speakers for Learn Serve Lead 2020: The Virtual Experience are also acclaimed authors and talented storytellers. Whether you plan to attend the meeting or not, put these books on your reading list:
• How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, PhD
• Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, Brigid Schulte
• In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids, Travis Rieder, PhD
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, Beth Macy
• When My Time Comes, Diane Rehm
• Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, Vivek H. Murthy, MD
National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, is also a prolific author, whose books include The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief and The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine.
Have you read any of these books? What did you think? Reply in the discussion thread below to share your thoughts.
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Pamela Sharif
Marketing Director
Association of American Medical Colleges
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