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Two Boston doctors -- Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman -- account for three of the top 5 best-selling books about medicine.

1. "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance," by Atul Gawande (Picador, paperback)
2. "How Doctors Think," by Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, paperback)
3. "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," by Mary Roach (Norton, paperback)
4. "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science," by Atul Gawande (Picador, paperback)
5. "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis," by Tom Daschle (St. Martin's, hardcover)

Source: Barnes & Noble (bn.com), New England sales, Dec. 21-28