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BMJ No 7123 Volume 315 Books Saturday 20/27 December Christmas 1997 issue Gimme five - books, that isWe can probably agree that the best doctors will try to understand how the world looks to their patients. But how can we hope to achieve such understanding? We are prisoners of our own backgrounds (usually privileged), culture and experience (always limited), and training (narrow, overstuffed, and reductionist). One route to broader understanding is books. Chris Bulstrode, a trauma surgeon who teaches creative writing to medical students, suggested that we try to compile a list of the best books for medical students and doctors to read. We asked the people below to start us off, but now we want your suggestions. Please send us a list of five books with a sentence or two on why each is worth reading. We will publish all the lists on our website, compile a comprehensive list there, and then publish a list of the top 10 (or possibly more) in the paper version of the journal - perhaps with a summary of each and some of the best quotes. And once we've done books we might try films. Or music?
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