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 1,030 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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    • 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 236 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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    • 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...

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    • 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 4,905 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....

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    • 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 124 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 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 881 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"....

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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 1,625 ratings
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

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    • A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
    • By: Philipp Schott DVM
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • How and why did humans begin to treat sick and injured animals? And how did those practices, and the associated attitudes, evolve from prehistory to the present day?

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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....

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    • 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 2,842 ratings
    • You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....

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    • 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 9,581 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....

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    • Stories of a Maine Island Doctor
    • By: Dr. Chuck Radis
    • Narrated by: Cole Tamminen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation....

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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....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Barrett Rollins
    • Narrated by: Barrett Rollins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A medical emergency forces a brilliant Harvard oncologist to reveal that she has been hiding her advanced breast cancer for a decade. Her husband—also an oncologist—must set aside his anger and feelings of betrayal so that he can care for her during her final year of life....

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    • 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....

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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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    • 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 11 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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    • The Making of a Surgeon
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • In his acclaimed first memoir, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs takes listeners from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school....

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