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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 150 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 4,875 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 Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
    • By: Paul A. Ruggieri MD
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession....

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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 160 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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    • 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 92 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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    • Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
    • By: David A. Ansell MD
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals....

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    • Tales from a First Responder
    • By: Michael Morse
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Rescue Captain Michael Morse presents heartfelt descriptions of hundreds of emergency calls, with the usual coverings peeled back, exposing the bizarre, heartbreaking, and often hilarious reactions to 911 emergencies....

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    • The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
    • By: Donald R. Kirsch PhD, Ogi Ogas PhD
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,177 ratings
    • The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race....

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    • Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 512 ratings
    • When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....

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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 967 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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    • A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
    • By: Daisy Hernández
    • Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • Who does the United States take care of and who does it leave behind? This is a riveting investigation of infectious disease, poverty, racism, and for-profit health care - and the harm caused by decades of silence....

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    • On the Front Line of Death Care
    • By: Matthew Franklin Sias
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In this sequel to Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Lifesaving Mortician, ride along with mortuary removal technician Matthew Franklin Sias as he cares for the deceased in rural Washington State....

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    • A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer…One Patient at a Time
    • By: David I. Levy MD, Joel Kilpatrick - contributor
    • Narrated by: Larry Wayne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 912 ratings
    • Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery....

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    • Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
    • By: Elizabeth Ford MD
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 610 ratings
    • Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling....

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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 393 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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    • 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 107 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 9,410 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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    • The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
    • By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city....

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    • Notes of a Medicine Watcher
    • By: Lewis Thomas
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In this partially autobiographical work, best-selling author Lewis Thomas offers insights on subjects as wide-ranging as gender differences, how it feels to be a patient, human vs. computer intelligence....

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