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Humorous Stories, Cautionary Tales, and Unexpected Insights About a Career in Medicine
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Dr. John Chase
About this listen
The end of residency isn’t the utopia you might have imagined.
You know what to do with the medical stuff, but what about navigating private practice, unfamiliar hospitals, and—patients!
In this collection of absurd moments, practical advice, and humorous tales from the medical trenches, Dr. John Chase shares stories from his forty years as an orthopedic surgeon and offers insight into how to be successful, have fun, and take care of patients without missing out on what really matters in life.
This is the perfect, entertaining, and quick book for medical students, those in the medical field, and people who want an insight into the humorous side of how doctors think.
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In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the rapidly increasing number of adult children responsible for aging parents. Gross deftly weaves the specifics of her personal experience with a comprehensive resource for effectively managing the lives of one's own parents while keeping sanity and strength intact.
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Exceptional, thought-provoking, liberating!
- By Anne on 08-10-11
By: Jane Gross
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Changing the Way We Die
- Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement
- By: Sheila Himmel, Fran Smith
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care - nearly 44 percent of all deaths - and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape.
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Sadly, not very engaging.
- By Debra S. Long on 06-16-18
By: Sheila Himmel, and others
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True Grit and Grace
- Turning Tragedy into Triumph
- By: Amberly Lago
- Narrated by: Amberly Lago
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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True Grit and Grace tells the story of a woman's life forever altered by a horrific motorcycle accident that shattered her right leg. Despite the initial recommendation to amputate, she endured 34 surgeries to save it. However, as a sexual-abuse and divorce survivor, she determined to save not only her leg, but her career, her dreams, and her dignity.
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Amazing!!
- By Аmazon Customer on 08-06-23
By: Amberly Lago
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Critical Care
- A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
- By: Theresa Brown
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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In her former career as an English professor, Theresa Brown had been shielded from the harsh reality of death. That all changed the day she decided to become an oncology nurse. In Critical Care, Theresa writes powerfully and honestly about her first year on the hospital floor. With great compassion and a disarming sense of humor, she shares the trials and triumphs of her patients and comes to realize that caring for a patient means much more than simply treating a disease.
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Excellent all the way around!
- By Susan on 10-12-17
By: Theresa Brown
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In Pain
- A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids
- By: Travis Rieder
- Narrated by: Travis Rieder
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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A bioethicist’s eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal - a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.
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An essential read in a time of crisis
- By Kelly Heuer on 06-25-19
By: Travis Rieder
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Say Yes to What’s Next
- How to Age with Elegance and Class While Never Losing Your Beauty and Sass!
- By: Lori Allen
- Narrated by: Lori Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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Women today are facing so much uncertainty - about life and the future. The need to pivot is stronger than ever, but many of us feel powerless to change or simply don’t know how to take that essential first step. For Lori Allen, business owner, breast cancer survivor, and star of TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta, these vital life lessons are the inspiration for her new book. Say Yes to What’s Next is more than just a guide for our best tomorrows, it’s the beginning of a life-makeover movement for women of all ages.
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Every woman approaching her 50s and beyond should have this book in her arsenal!
- By Julie C. on 08-04-20
By: Lori Allen
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On Death and Dying
- What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Family
- By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Narrated by: Carol Bilger, cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross created her classic seminal work, On Death and Dying, to offer us a new perspective on the terminally ill. It is not a psychoanalytic study, nor is it a "how-to" manual for managing death. Rather, it refocuses on the patient as a human being and a teacher, in the hope that we will learn from him or her about the final stages of life.
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Terrible narration
- By Nassir on 06-25-05
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The Center Cannot Hold
- By: Elyn R. Saks
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. In The Center Cannot Hold, Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health-care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most can only imagine, Saks reclaimed her life and went on to achieve great success.
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Schizophrenia Inside Out
- By Pamela Harvey on 07-23-09
By: Elyn R. Saks
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Your Turn
- How to Be an Adult
- By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
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What does it mean to be an adult? In the 20th century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. Since then, every generation has been held to those same markers. Yet so much has changed about the world and living in it since that sequence was formulated. All of those markers are choices, and they’re all valid, but any one person’s choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult.
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Not the book that was advertised
- By M. Rogers on 04-13-21
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Unaccountable
- What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
- By: Marty Makary
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's best-selling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last 10 years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress.
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Everyone should read this book.
- By Julie on 06-11-16
By: Marty Makary
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- Alex
- 04-27-24
A wonderful book
This is a collection of purified, concise learnings from a career of an orthopedic surgeon illustrated by entertaining examples. Highly recommended to anyone who is considering a career in medicine.
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- D. Martel
- 11-30-22
Bringing back wonderful memories
Having just retired as an OR nurse for 50 years; Dr Chase made me feel I was back in the surgical world.
loved the book!
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-30-24
Love this book
So funny and heartwarming. It should be a mandatory read for all medical students. Wish the author had been one of my doctors.
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- Sarah
- 02-20-23
don't bother
would not finish. Rude. fatphobic. seems like a provider who rather look down on patients then help them. we all encounter high bmis and drug seeking and people of limited education in medicine. no need to make a book speaking rudely about them. not funny
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- David M. Monihan Jr.
- 07-11-24
Written for doctors
I finished and did enjoy it but it was written for doctors and not the general public.
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- BarbG
- 08-30-24
Excellent story!!
Highly recommend reading this well written book. The journey to become a Dr and Surgeon was wonderful. I worked in hospitals for 30 years as xray & Nuclear Med tech. Hard to find a great Doctor who also cares about each of his patients. A must read for anyone going into any part of the Medical field.
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- Darlene
- 01-04-23
Interesting retrospective on career in medicine
As a former medical practice manager I wish more potential doctors would listen to this book. He was an exceptional to the rule about doctors I worked with. Not as humorous as I had hoped, but insightful.
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- Vindetta Fleming
- 07-01-23
Very good
I enjoyed the book. Just an honest look into the life of a surgeon…. Told without vulgarity, which seems like today is what most people seem to think makes it a “good” book.
Thanks, Dr Chase for sharing your experiences in your life as a surgeon. Good job! God bless you, Sir.
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- John Chase
- 10-20-22
The performance by Bronson Pinchot is fabulous!
This review is from John Chase-the author. I will let you all decide the merits of the book itself. After listening to an Audible book every month for 20 years, I identified Mr Pinchot as my favorite reader for his ability to portray the emotion of the situation and that is why I wanted him to narrate my book when I wrote it.
He nailed it! He made this book better than I had hoped for with his performance
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- svjanis
- 02-20-24
Real Life
As a nurse of 50 years, I could relive many similar situations while listening to this book. Some funny. Some not. The book title captures so much of life in the medical field. A family friend suffered consequences of stress as a physician so I chose nursing and glad I did. I've had experience in many settings and many fields and benefited from them all. Kudos to Dr Chase for sharing his journey.
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