Medical Biography

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    • Life and Death in a Modern Hospital
    • By: Seamus O'Mahony
    • Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of work in the 'ministry of bodies', that huge complex where people come to be cured and to die. From unexpected deaths to moral quandaries and bureaucratic disasters, O'Mahony documents life in the halls that all of us will visit at some point....

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    • The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
    • By: Stephen Westaby
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures....

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    • The Complete Story
    • By: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"....

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    • One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
    • By: Theresa Brown RN
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a hospital's cancer ward....

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    • By: Cynric Temple-Camp
    • Narrated by: Mark Davis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist and self-confessed death-aficionado Dr. Cynric Temple-Camp takes listeners into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale....

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    • The Stories Behind Abortion
    • By: Dr. Meera Shah
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. "I'm an abortion provider," she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new....

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    • By: Anthea Allen
    • Narrated by: Anthea Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • An extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest hospitals in Europe during the Covid crisis....

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    • Tales from Neurosurgery
    • By: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain and more....

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    • By: Max Pemberton
    • Narrated by: Alexi Armitage
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 595 ratings
    • If you're going to be ill, it's best to avoid the first Wednesday in August. This is the day when junior doctors graduate to their first placements and begin to face having to put into practice what they have spent the last six years learning....

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    • A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery
    • By: David Poses
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth....

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    • The Making of a Surgeon
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In his acclaimed first memoir, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs takes listeners from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school....

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    • A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
    • By: Rachel Pearson MD
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system....

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    • Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
    • By: Elizabeth Ford MD
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling....

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    • On the Front Line of Death Care
    • By: Matthew Franklin Sias
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In this sequel to Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Lifesaving Mortician, ride along with mortuary removal technician Matthew Franklin Sias as he cares for the deceased in rural Washington State....

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    • The True Story Behind 'The Theory of Everything'
    • By: Jane Hawking
    • Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • In this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking relates the inside story of her extraordinary marriage....

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    • The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
    • By: Anthony Youn MD, Alan Eisenstock - contributor
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice....

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    • Autism and Vaccines - The Truth Behind a Tragedy
    • By: Andrew Wakefield
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Andrew Wakefield reveals the the inside story of the vaccine-autism connection, and his controversial research....

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    • A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Peter Canning
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A first responder to hundreds of overdoses throughout the rise of America's epidemic, Peter Canning  tells stories of opioid overdose from a street-level vantage point....

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    • A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
    • By: Henry Jay Przybylo MD
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is a source of great fear and fascination....

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