Doctors, drugs and health care

Being Mortal

“Gates reviewed Gawande's book on aging and end-of-life care on GatesNotes and wrote that it changed how he thought about his own family and about what good medicine actually means. He has since cited it as a model for how doctors and institutions should approach the limits of intervention.”Bill Gates

The Checklist Manifesto

“My good friend, Guy Spier, observed that both of us have a pre-investment checklist, but no in-flight checklist. The pre-investment checklist has proven invaluable. It is important to periodically…”Mohnish Pabrai

When Breath Becomes Air

“Kalanithi's memoir, written as he was dying of lung cancer at 36, is the kind of book Popova has long championed: a scientist reckoning with mortality through literature. She wrote about it as an act of grace under the most impossible of circumstances.”Maria Popova

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

“Ackman publicly stated on X it was the one book he had recommended there, calling it well-written and important.”Bill Ackman