
How to Be a Patient
The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine
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Sana Goldberg
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From registered nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg, RN, a timely, accessible, and comprehensive handbook to navigating common medical situations. From the routine to the unexpected, How to Be a Patient is your ultimate guide to better health care.
Did you know that patients have statistically better outcomes when their surgeon is female? That you can mark up an informed consent sheet before you sign it or get second opinions on CTs and MRIs? That there’s a blue book for health-care procedures or an algorithm to decide between ER, urgent care, and waiting until Monday?
In How to Be a Patient, nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg walks listeners through the complicated and uncertain medical landscape, illuminating a path to better care.
Warm and disarmingly honest, Goldberg’s advice is as expert as it is accessible. In the face of an epidemic of brusque, impersonal care, she empowers listeners with the information and tools to come to good decisions with their providers and sidestep the challenging realities of modern medicine.
With sections like "When All Is Well", "When It’s an Emergency", "When It’s Your Person", and "When You Have to Stand Up to the Industry", along with appendices to help track family history, avoid pointless medical tests, and choose when and where to undergo a procedure, How to Be a Patient is an invaluable and essential guide for a new generation of patients.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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By: Jeff Wetzler, and others
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Primed to Perform
- How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation
- By: Neel Doshi, Lindsay McGregor
- Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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What if you knew the science behind the magic - a science so predictive and powerful that you could transform your organization? What if you could use cutting-edge psychology to unlock people's innate desires to innovate, experiment, and adapt? In Primed to Perform, Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor show you how to do just that. The result: higher sales, more loyal customers, and more passionate employees.
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Skeptical at first, but I'm a believer
- By Anonymous1 on 05-30-16
By: Neel Doshi, and others
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The Likeability Trap
- How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are
- By: Alicia Menendez
- Narrated by: Alicia Menendez
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Relying on extensive research and interviews, and carefully examined personal experience, The Likeability Trap delivers an essential examination of the pressure put on women to be amiable at work, home, and in the public sphere, and explores the price women pay for internalizing those demands. Rather than advising listeners to make themselves likeable, Menendez empowers them to examine how they perceive themselves and others and explores how the concept of likeability is riddled with cultural biases.
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Not for me
- By ksmith525 on 01-22-20
By: Alicia Menendez
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Shorter
- Work Better, Smarter, and Less-Here's How
- By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Narrated by: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Shorter tells the story of entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world who have discovered how to shrink the workweek without cutting salaries or sacrificing productivity or revenues. They show that by reducing distractions, eliminating inefficiencies, and creating time for high-quality focus and collaboration, four-day workweeks can boost recruitment and retention, make leaders more thoughtful and companies more sustainable, and improve work-life balance.
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Good premise that should be 40% shorter
- By Nicholas on 09-23-21
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Live Happy
- Ten Practices for Choosing Joy
- By: Deborah K. Heisz
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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We are all increasingly hungry for soul-deep happiness. All over the globe, from the hallways of Harvard, where the university's most popular course is a class on positive psychology, to the United Nations' resolution naming March 20th the International Day of Happiness, the question of how to be authentically happy concerns millions of lives today.
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Narrator's voice is irritating
- By SLR on 05-16-16
By: Deborah K. Heisz
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I'll See You Tomorrow
- Building Relational Resilience When You Want to Quit
- By: Heather Thompson Day, Seth Day, Beth Moore
- Narrated by: Heather Day, Seth Day, Michelle Lasley
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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We are surrounded by choices. If we want to watch a movie, we have multiple platforms we can choose from. If we grow tired of a friend or conversation, we leave them on read. It's never been easier to tune out and make a switch when something doesn't go perfectly or when we are offended. It's easy to cancel something from our lives when it comes to technology, television shows, or choices of food and drinks. But what about canceling friends or family members when we are disappointed or offended by them?
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Are relationships worth the hassle...Yes!
- By Linval London on 02-13-23
By: Heather Thompson Day, and others
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Living with the Monks
- By: Jesse Itzler
- Narrated by: Jesse Itzler
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Thinking all monasteries were like the ones he saw in the movies, Jesse Itzler arrived at the New Skete religious community in remote Cambridge, New York, with a shaved head and a suitcase filled with bananas. To his surprise, New Skete monks have most of their hair. They're Russian Orthodox, not Buddhist, and they're also world-renowned dog breeders and authors of dog-training books that have sold in the millions.
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Another amazing book!
- By sammy on 05-18-18
By: Jesse Itzler
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Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World
- A History
- By: William Alexander
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Supported by meticulous research and told in a lively, accessible voice, Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World seamlessly weaves travel, history, humor, and a little adventure (and misadventure) to follow the tomato's trail through history. A fascinating story complete with heroes, con artists, conquistadors, and—no surprise—the Mafia, this book is a mouth-watering, informative, and entertaining guide to the food that has captured our hearts for generations.
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Interesting history of tomatoes
- By Amazon Customer on 03-17-25
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This Idea Is Brilliant
- Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Charles Constant
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically literate society is crucial. In that spirit, Edge.org publisher and author of Know This, John Brockman, asks 206 of the world's most brilliant minds the 2017 Edge Question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?
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Condensed Brilliance in Digestable Chunks
- By Andrew on 02-15-18
By: John Brockman
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Master of None
- How a Jack-of-All-Trades Can Still Reach the Top
- By: Clifford Hudson
- Narrated by: Clifford Hudson
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Most people don't need to be experts in their field. Yes, the successful know more than the average person about a particular topic, and they often possess a better-than-average ability with a particular skill set; but not everyone who is successful is an expert, he makes clear. And yet we continue to deeply value the expertise ideal. In Master of None, Hudson turns expertise on its head and shows that by embracing variety and becoming more versatile, anyone can succeed and become more open to different opportunities in life.
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Not great, not bad
- By Brian Sachetta on 01-27-21
By: Clifford Hudson
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This Is Supposed to Be Fun
- How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between
- By: Myisha Battle
- Narrated by: Myisha Battle
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It’s easy to forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an engaging and diverse collection of client stories, This Is Supposed to Be Fun is a uniquely inclusive, sex-positive guide to help you skip past the games and get what you really want out of dating and relationships—no matter what that may be.
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Guiding the singles
- By Weekend Reader (Lynell) on 04-07-23
By: Myisha Battle
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The Perfect Story
- How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire
- By: Karen Eber
- Narrated by: Karen Eber
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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The Perfect Story will help you take your stories and make them perfect. Learn how to take any story and make it perfect--from storytelling expert Karen Eber, whose TED Talk on the subject has nearly two million views.
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One of the best books on storytelling by far
- By Esben on 10-08-23
By: Karen Eber
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The Measure of Our Age
- Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life
- By: M.T. Connolly
- Narrated by: Tracie Frank
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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As tens of millions of Americans are living longer lives, longevity is creating challenges that cut across race, class, and gender. Caregivers help older relatives for “free,” but with high costs to themselves. The institutions built to protect older people—like nursing homes and guardianship—too often harm them instead. And epidemics of isolation and loneliness make older people vulnerable to all sorts of harm. In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient M.T. Connolly investigates the systems we count on to protect us as we age.
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A “must read” (or listen)
- By Amazon Customer on 04-11-24
By: M.T. Connolly
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Just and Unjust Wars
- A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations
- By: Michael Walzer
- Narrated by: Gregory St. John
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of conflict. In this modern classic, political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues that arise before, during, and after the wars we fight. Reaching from the Athenian attack on Melos, to the Mai Lai massacre, to the war in Afghanistan and beyond, Walzer mines historical and contemporary accounts and the testimony of participants, decision makers, and victims to explain when war is justified and what ethical limitations apply to those who wage it.
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Less than one star
- By LarryK on 06-14-25
By: Michael Walzer
Painfully boring but full of good info
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More like “How Being a Patient Should Be”
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For everyone. Both sides of the stethescope
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