#sorry that link is to a pubmed page. honestly the best review webpage of it i could find cursorily

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most influential book in your life? or if thats too personal then whats the best book youve read?

despite having a thing in my header saying I'm askable, I don't get asks from (relative) strangers that often, so this is great. unless you're a bot or trying to dox me, in which case, I will be sad. but otherwise!

the most influential book in my life is atul gawande's better, which, through changing my understanding of the scope of health interventions, diverted me from lab wetwork microbiology into public health epi. it's also just really good; it's unfair that some people can doctor and write.