| The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine EJ Cassell Loss, Grief & Care 8 (1-2), 129-142, 1998 | 5506 | 1998 |
| The healer's art EJ Cassell MIT Press, 1985 | 726 | 1985 |
| Diagnosing suffering: a perspective EJ Cassell Annals of internal medicine 131 (7), 531-534, 1999 | 480 | 1999 |
| Recognizing suffering EJ Cassell Hastings Center Report 21 (3), 24-24, 1991 | 344 | 1991 |
| Talking with patients, Volume 1: The theory of doctor-patient communication EJ Cassell MIT Press, 1985 | 278 | 1985 |
| Compassion EJ Cassell | 264 | 2016 |
| The principles of the Belmont report revisited: How have respect for persons, beneficence, and justice been applied to clinical medicine? EJ Cassell Hastings center report 30 (4), 12-21, 2000 | 241 | 2000 |
| Doctoring: The nature of primary care medicine EJ Cassell Oxford University Press, 2002 | 176 | 2002 |
| The nature of healing: The modern practice of medicine EJ Cassell Oxford University Press, 2012 | 173 | 2012 |
| Preliminary evidence of impaired thinking in sick patients EJ Cassell, AC Leon, SG Kaufman Annals of internal medicine 134 (12), 1120-1123, 2001 | 161 | 2001 |
| Intractable end-of-life suffering and the ethics of palliative sedation EJ Cassell, BA Rich Pain Medicine 11 (3), 435-438, 2010 | 155 | 2010 |
| The sorcerer's broom EJ Cassell Hastings Center Report 23 (6), 32-39, 1993 | 152 | 1993 |
| The nature of suffering: physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects. EJ Cassell NLN publications, 1-10, 1992 | 152 | 1992 |
| The function of medicine EJ Cassell Hastings Center Report, 16-19, 1977 | 140 | 1977 |
| Illness and disease EJ Cassell Hastings Center Report, 27-37, 1976 | 130 | 1976 |
| Disease as an “it”: concepts of disease revealed by patients' presentation of symptoms EJ Cassell Social Science & Medicine (1967) 10 (3-4), 143-146, 1976 | 122 | 1976 |
| The Place of the Humanities in Medicine. EJ Cassell The Hastings Center, 360 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706, 1984 | 121 | 1984 |
| A healing curriculum JD Boudreau, EJ Cassell, A Fuks Medical education 41 (12), 1193-1201, 2007 | 119 | 2007 |
| Consent or obedience? Power and authority in medicine EJ Cassell New England Journal of Medicine 352 (4), 328-330, 2005 | 102 | 2005 |
| Talking with patients, volume 2: Clinical technique EJ Cassell MIT Press, 1985 | 98 | 1985 |
