I Read Many Things

Tag: Medicine

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

    While browsing on various reading forums to get new ideas for future reads, I often came across mentions of this book. Finding the title intriguing by itself, I looked it up online and learned that it was about some extremely resilient cancer cells – called HeLa, for Henrietta Lacks – able to reproduce at a…

  • This is Going to Hurt, by Adam Kay

    I’ve had this weird fascination with medicine for the past few years. I think it started out when I first watched the TV Show Scrubs. Obviously I’m well aware it’s a comedy show and it’s not meant to be educational. However, I’ve read and heard from reliable sources that it is actually pretty medically accurate…