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BJS Bookshelf: Atomic Habits by James Clear
18 September 2025
BJS Bookshelf: A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

BJS Bookshelf: A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

Recommendation and Article by Dr Ameera AlHasan, Specialist General and Colorectal Surgeon, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait, @A160186

4 April 2024
BJS Bookshelf: Surgical Anatomy and Technique. A Pocket Manual.

BJS Bookshelf: Surgical Anatomy and Technique. A Pocket Manual.

Recommendation and Article by Teresa Perra and Alberto Porcu Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

22 March 2024
BJS Bookshelf: Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery by Roger Kneebone

BJS Bookshelf: Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery by Roger Kneebone

Recommendation and Article by Dr Ameera AlHasan, Specialist General and Colorectal Surgeon, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait, @A160186

11 March 2024
BJS Bookshelf: Thinking, Fast and Slow

BJS Bookshelf: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Recommendation and article by Begum Pekbay; Medical Doctor, and PhD-candidate in Surgical Education and Training; Rotterdam; The Netherlands; www.linkedin.com/in/begumpekbay; Instagram: @drs.begum

19 January 2024
BJS Bookshelf: Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery

BJS Bookshelf: Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery

Recommendation and Article by Mr. Arindam Chaudhuri MS FRCSEd MSc FRCS; Consultant Vascular Surgeon; Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; @vascularis

19 December 2023
A view from the coffee room…self-help book for scientific writing – do we need it?

A view from the coffee room…self-help book for scientific writing – do we need it?

Virve Koljonen M.D. PhD.
Department of Plastic surgery
Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital
Helsinki, Finland
@plastiikkaope

30 November 2023
BJS Bookshelf: Lessons in Chemistry

BJS Bookshelf: Lessons in Chemistry

Recommendation and Article by Stephen J Wigmore; BJS Foundation Treasurer; Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery University of Edinburgh; Director Edinburgh Surgery online; Editor in Chief HPB; @ProfW_edinsurg

21 July 2023
BJS Bookshelf: The Elements of Style

BJS Bookshelf: The Elements of Style

Recommendation and Article by Gianluca Pellino, BJS Academy SoMe and Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Campania, Naples, Italy, @GianlucaPellino

30 June 2023
BJS Bookshelf: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

BJS Bookshelf: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

Recommendation and Article by Marcel Schneider; Department of Surgery and Transplantation; University Hospital of Zurich; Switzerland; @MA__Schneider

9 June 2023
BJS Bookshelf: Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery.

BJS Bookshelf: Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery.

Recommendation and Article by Teresa Perra and Alberto Porcu; Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy; University of Sassari; Italy; @TeresaPerra

26 April 2023
BJS Bookshelf: Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

BJS Bookshelf: Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

Recommendation and Article by Dr Ameera AlHasan, Specialist General and Colorectal Surgeon, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait, @A160186

13 April 2023
BJS Bookshelf: Schein’s common sense. Emergency abdominal surgery.

BJS Bookshelf: Schein’s common sense. Emergency abdominal surgery.

Recommendation and Article by Gianluca Pellino, BJS Academy SoMe and Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Campania, Naples, Italy, @GianlucaPellino

31 March 2023
BJS Bookshelf: Mastery

BJS Bookshelf: Mastery

Recommendation and Article by Dr Ameera AlHasan, Specialist General and Colorectal Surgeon, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait, @A160186

10 March 2023
BJS Bookshelf: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

BJS Bookshelf: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Recommendation and Article by Dr Ameera AlHasan, Specialist General and Colorectal Surgeon, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait, @A160186

21 February 2023
BJS Bookshelf: When Breath Becomes Air

BJS Bookshelf: When Breath Becomes Air

Recommendation and Article by Dr Ameera AlHasan, Specialist General and Colorectal Surgeon, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait, @A160186

26 January 2023
BJS Bookshelf: The Puzzle People

BJS Bookshelf: The Puzzle People

Recommendation and article by Gianluca Pellino, BJS Academy SoMe and Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Campania, Naples, Italy, @GianlucaPellino

20 January 2023
BJS Bookshelf: The Art of Statistics – Learning from Data.

BJS Bookshelf: The Art of Statistics – Learning from Data.

Recommendation and article by Petter Frühling (MD PhD); Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgeon; Uppsala University Hospital; Sweden.

30 December 2022
BJS Bookshelf: Being Mortal – Illness, medicine and what matters in the end.

BJS Bookshelf: Being Mortal – Illness, medicine and what matters in the end.

Recommendation and article by Nadia Henriksen; Staff Specialist, MD, PhD, FEBS-AWS, Ass Professor. Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen; Denmark; @DrHenriksen

14 December 2022
BJS Bookshelf: One more ride on the merry-go-round

BJS Bookshelf: One more ride on the merry-go-round

Recommendation and Article by Gianluca Pellino, BJS Academy SoMe and Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Campania, Naples, Italy, @GianlucaPellino

9 December 2022
BJS Bookshelf: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family.

BJS Bookshelf: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family.

Recommendation and Article by Deborah Verran; Surgeon; Ramsey Healthcare; Sydney; Australia

2 December 2022