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I suspect that the vast majority of us know very little about how one becomes a doctor that hasn’t been informed by TV shows. We expect doctors to diagnose like Dr. House or care for us like Dr. Dorian or entertain us like Patch Adams. Anyone who’s gotten a whiff of medical school will be quick to correct our misperceptions, but there are only a few doctors who are bringing the mysterious inner workings of practicing medicine to light for the general public. Atul Gawande is one. The late Oliver Sacks was another. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a relative newcomer to this part of the literary world. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies, won a Pulitzer in 2011. The Laws of Medicine is a less daunting book; Maladies clocks in at almost 600 pages. The Laws of Medicine runs to less than 100 pages, but it’s no less ambitious. I’d say that Mukherjee intends for his laws of medicine to become a quiet revolution in medicine.

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.