Medical Biography

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    • My Tale of Madness and Recovery
    • By: Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle - contributor
    • Narrated by: Emma Powell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,029 ratings
    • In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down....

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    • Surgery on the Front Line
    • By: David Nott
    • Narrated by: David Nott
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • The number one internationally best-selling, gripping true story of a front line trauma surgeon operating in the world’s most dangerous war zones...

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Tales from Neurosurgery
    • By: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,901 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....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • Lessons in Investigating Death
    • By: John Bateson
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • Ken Holmes worked in the Marin County Coroner's Office for 36 years, starting as a death investigator and ending as the three-term, elected coroner....

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    • Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
    • By: Henry Marsh
    • Narrated by: Jim Barclay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622 ratings
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

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    • A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
    • By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 882 ratings
    • Dr. Mütter's Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of 19th-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room"....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
    • By: Lynda Van Devanter
    • Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • After high school Lynda Van Devanter attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly....

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    • A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
    • By: Victoria Sweet
    • Narrated by: Victoria Sweet
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • 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: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 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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    • A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
    • By: Jennifer Worth
    • Narrated by: Nicola Barber
    • Series: Call the Midwife, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,569 ratings
    • At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums....

    Regular price: $24.05

    • The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
    • By: Naoki Higashida
    • Narrated by: Tom Picasso
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,834 ratings
    • You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
    • By: Anne Boyer
    • Narrated by: Amy Finegan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data - sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying....

    Regular price: $13.75

    • True Stories of a Life in Medicine
    • By: Walter M. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Doctor’s Year in Vietnam
    • By: John A. Parrish
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The candid memoir of a young doctor who reluctantly accepts a military commission and spends a year behind the front lines of the Vietnam War....

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    • A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
    • By: Jon McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Known as one of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans plays host to incidents ranging from the tragic and disturbing to the completely bizarre - and during his career as an emergency medic, Jon McCarthy saw it all....

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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: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 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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    • How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky and an Animaniac Saved My Life
    • By: Rob Paulsen, Michael Fleeman - contributor
    • Narrated by: Ash Paulsen, Rob Paulsen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Rob Paulsen is one of Hollywood's busiest and most passionate performers. If you don't know him by name, you will know him by the many characters he has brought to life: Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Yakko from Animaniacs, and more....

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