Recommended Books for Physicians
(Entrepreneurship, investing, physician member recommendations & more)
Looking for something to read? These are some of our favorites in various categories. Scroll through the tabbed categories below to explore all our book recommendations!
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PSG Recommends: Books for Personal, Career and Wealth Development
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Business and Entrepreneurship
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Personal Development and Leadership
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Personal Finance and Investing
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Real Estate
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Member Authored Books
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Member Recommended Reading
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Fiction
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Nonfiction
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PSG Recommends: Books for Personal, Career and Wealth Development
We are big believers that most physicians enjoy learning throughout their careers, especially the things that we didn't learn in medical school. Use the tabs below to explore different categories of books our founder Nisha Mehta, MD has read and recommends for: business and entrepreneurship; personal development and leadership; personal finance and investing; and real estate.
Business and Entrepreneurship
Author(s): Christopher Voss, Tahl Raz
Topic: Negotiations
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Topic: Behavioral Economics
Author: Richard H. Thaler
This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
Author: Seth Godin
Topic: Marketing
Author: Randy Street, Geoff Smart
Topic: Hiring
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
Author: Donald Miller
Topic: Marketing
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Author: Ben Horowitz
Topic: Business building
Author: Alan Dib
Topic: Marketing
Author: Eric Ries
Topic: Startups
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Author: Peter Thiel
Topic: Startups
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Author: Patrick Bet-David
Topic: Building a business
Author: Seth Godin
Topic: Marketing
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Author(s): Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
Topic: Product development
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
Author: Jim Collins
Topic: Business
PSG Community Spotlight
Below, navigate the different tabs to see books authored by our PSG members (!) and other books our PSG members have recommended in our communities. If you're interested in other PSG recommendations, you can also explore PSG's favorite board games and our community's guide to gifts for any occasion.
If you are a member of our communities and have authored a book you would like to appear on this page, please contact our partnerships team here.
Member Authored Books
Doc-Related: A Physician's Guide to Fixing Our Ailing Health Care System
Author: Peter Valenzuela, MD
Topic: Cartoons about the Health Care System
English - French Medical Dictionary Dictionnaire Médical Français - Anglais
Author: Jackson Bell
Topic: Dictionary
Practicing Stillness: 50 Simple Exercises to Slow Down, Live in the Moment, and Find Peace
Author: Nissa Keyashian, MD
Topic: Growing Mindfulness
I Watch You Sleep: A Doctor's Tales of Anesthesia and Chain Restaurants
Author: Zach Antonov MD
Topic: Real-life medical stories and adventures from the operating room
Determined: How Burned Out Doctors Can Thrive in a Broken Medical System
Author: James D. Turner, MD
Topic: Physician Burnout
Mastering Meaningful Communication: How to Transform Conversations & Build Authentic Connections
Author: Dr. Raquel Zia
Topic: Reshaping the way you engage with people
Author: Todd R. Otten MD
Topic: Change in the Healthcare System
The AI North Star: Governing AI for Quality & Safety in Healthcare
Author: Dr. Sehar Meraj
Topic: Navigating AI
Author: Dr. Diako Hazhir
Genre: Mystery/Suspense Fiction
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
Author: Haider J. Warraich, MD
Topic: How modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective
This is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn't Call it That
Author: Nicole E. Willams MD
Topic: All about this misunderstood part of the female anatomy
I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life
Author: Amy Shah, MD
Topic: The complex relationship between your gut, your immune system, and your hormones
Hindsight: Coming of age on the streets of Hollywood
Author: Sheryl Recinos, MD
Topic: A physician's personal experience with youth homelessness
Author: Mimi Zieman, MD
Topic: Coming-of-age travel memoir
Every Child Counts: Breaking the cycle of poverty by educating one child at a time
Author: Deborah D. Proctor, MD
Topic: Developing sustainable projects to help others
Human Body Learning Lab: Take an Inside Tour of How Your Anatomy Works
Author: Betty Choi, MD
Topic: Children's book about the human body
Porcupine Hugs
Author: Nicole Aaronson, MD
Topic: Children's book about true friendships
Saanvi's Family Tree & Saanvi's Bad Day
Author: Sheena Sharma, MD
Topic: Children's books about familial estrangement & handling unhappiness