American Health Care

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    • What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
    • By: Marty Makary MD
    • Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 980 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it....

    Regular price: $16.35

    • Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
    • By: Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. This audiobook examines the research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries, to get to the root of this paradox....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • How We Lost Our Health Care System
    • By: Robert W. Derlet
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours....

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    • How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
    • By: John Abramson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,268 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

    Regular price: $20.63

    • How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
    • By: David Goldhill
    • Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
    • By: Ilana Yurkiewicz MD
    • Narrated by: Ilana Yurkiewicz MD
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • There's an assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality often falls short. Ilana Yurkiewicz reveals how a system that doesn't talk to itself puts insupportable burdens on physicians, patients, and caregivers....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Peeling Back the Layers for a Vision of the Future
    • By: William Lawson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • These articles are editorials by William B. Lawson MD, PhD when he was Editor in Chief during the 2000’s. The journal at that time was published ...

    Regular price: $4.00

    • Hope and Peril in American Medicine
    • By: Ricardo Nuila MD
    • Narrated by: Ricardo Nuila MD
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians....

    Regular price: $19.49

    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
    • By: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • Rebooting American Health Care
    • By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • An Unapologetic Approach to Providing Culturally Affirming Mental Health Care to Black and African American Clients
    • By: Rheeda Walker PhD, Scott Waltman PsyD ABPP - foreword
    • Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • The reality is that although many Black clients will not zero in on the impact of racism in their lives, ignoring the issue of race in therapy leaves a very large elephant in the room. And you can't build rapport with elephants in the room. So what do you do?

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    • The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
    • By: Alondra Nelson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care....

    Regular price: $17.49

    • A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
    • By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A bizarre, rollicking trip through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments....

    Regular price: $25.19