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    • 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 out of 5 stars 61 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....

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    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • By: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy....

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    • 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 28 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....

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    • 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 71 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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    • Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex
    • By: Mike Magee MD
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars....

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    • An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care
    • By: Jonathan Bush, Stephen Baker
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices....

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

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    • The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
    • By: Dr. Arline T. Geronimus
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people....

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    • Modern Financial Analysis for Accelerating Biomedical Innovation
    • By: Andrew W. Lo, Shomesh E. Chaudhuri
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An introductory finance textbook for the healthcare industry....

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    • The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster - Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
    • By: Jessie Singer
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America....

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    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Jeffrey Sachs presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty....

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    • By: Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
    • Narrated by: Barry Lank
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Six Sigma Healthcare is a quality improvement methodology that also improves patient and stakeholder satisfaction....

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    • The Story of How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators Is Trying to Transform Our Health Care System
    • By: Travis Christofferson
    • Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think....

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • By: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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    • A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
    • By: Abdul El-Sayed
    • Narrated by: Abdul El-Sayed
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • In Healing Politics, El-Sayed traces the life of a young idealist, weaving together powerful personal stories and fascinating forays into history and science. Marrying his unique perspective with the science of epidemiology, El-Sayed diagnoses an underlying epidemic in the US....

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    • How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks
    • By: Troy Tassier PhD
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized.

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    • The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement - and How You Can Fight Back
    • By: Jacob S. Hacker
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling....

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