Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Rigorously reported and fearlessly written, Bad Blood is a gripping story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron-a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings-from journalists to their own employees. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. The Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year, one of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Time, Esquire, Fortune, Mental Floss, Bloomberg, BookRiot, Library Journal, & more +We have a great relationship & I loved this book so I think she’ll get a kick out of this start.) However, we not only share a love of biology, but also a dark sense of humor. (Leading with Bad Blood below on a post dedicated to my mom might seem odd. If that’s what you’re looking for, check out our Ultimate List of Pandemic Books - Fiction & Nonfiction.

Note: I’ve specifically avoided pandemic books. So Happy Mother’s Day to my mom & all the other mothers out there! That’s when I decided to put together this ultimate list of 35 medical nonfiction reads as a little bonus for her for Mother’s Day so I could stock her up on books with great reviews…& I figured you might enjoy as well. She then mentioned that she doesn’t always read as much because she has trouble finding good books. This was surprising since this genre is also a love of mine & we had no idea the other also adored these books. Talking to my mom a while ago, I was shocked to find that there was a book genre she read which I was unaware of-medical-related nonfiction books such as doctor memoirs & the history of scientific discoveries.

Medical books to read