Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hospital, The Hidden Lives of a Medical Center Staff | 1982 | Michael Medved | Buy |
Hospital, The Hidden Lives of a Medical Center Staff (1982) is Michael Medved’s account of life inside a working hospital. The book goes beyond the clinical side of medicine to look at the people who keep a medical center running, from doctors and nurses to administrative staff and orderlies.
Medved spent extensive time embedded in the hospital to capture the rhythms of daily work, the pressures of patient care, and the personal lives of staff members. The result is a piece of narrative non-fiction that reads more like a documentary than a medical textbook.