Five top medical books

Adam Kay is a former doctor in the UK's National Health Service turned comedian, and the author of This is Going to Hurt. One of his five favorite medical reads, as shared at the Waterstones blog:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 of cervical cancer. During her treatment, abnormal cells were taken at a biopsy that would turn out to be the most