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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Please read this review if you are a medical professional.

October 16, 2017 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

I have read a lot of this genre – medical memoirs. According to Google, I have read literally almost all of them. I have noticed a pattern, and a problem, and I’m going to use this review space to make a request. 80% of these books follow a formula: author becomes a doctor, a bunch of funny/strange anecdotes from patient interactions or unusual cases. Some do it better than others, but if you stitched them all together into one huge book you’d probably barely notice the seams. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: brent russell, medical memoir, medicine, sujay kansagra, transgender

Blingle Bells's CBR9 Review No:31 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: brent russell, medical memoir, medicine, sujay kansagra, transgender ·
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