Medical Memoirs

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    • 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
    • By: Cory Franklin MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,207 ratings
    • Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences....

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    • Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
    • By: Lisa Sanders
    • Narrated by: Lisa Sanders
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 775 ratings
    • A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis", the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D....

    $18.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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 369 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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    • 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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    • Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
    • By: Barbara Butcher
    • Narrated by: Barbara Butcher
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 641 ratings
    • New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher shares a “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations.

    $19.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • By: Abi Morgan
    • Narrated by: Fiona Button
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • When the partner of Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Abi Morgan abruptly collapsed from a mysterious illness, doctors were concerned that he would not survive....

    $22.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • True Stories of a Country Nurse in Scotland's Western Isles
    • By: Mary J. MacLeod
    • Narrated by: Gwen Hughes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,352 ratings
    • Recalling the classic works by James Herriot and the new British hit Call the Midwife, a nurse’s heartwarming adventures with her family while practicing in rural Scotland....

    $24.95 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 Memoir
    • By: Hanif Kureishi
    • Narrated by: Art Malik
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • From acclaimed author and playwright Hanif Kureishi comes an urgent and stunning memoir about rebuilding a new life in the wake of devastating physical loss.

    $19.79 or free with 30-day trial

    • By: Philip Allen Green MD
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • In this collection of short stories, Dr. Green takes the listener inside the hidden emotional landscape of emergency medicine....

    $10.31 or free with 30-day trial

    • A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit
    • By: Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,953 ratings
    • Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. With this call to arms, Charlie Beckwith revolutionized American armed combat....

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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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    • On Vision Lost and Found
    • By: Frank Bruni
    • Narrated by: Frank Bruni
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 ratings
    • One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience....

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    • One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
    • By: Theresa Brown RN
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,657 ratings
    • Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a hospital's cancer ward....

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    • Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
    • By: Farzon A Nahvi
    • Narrated by: Aden Hakimi, Farzon A Nahvi
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Code Gray is a narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around us appears to be falling apart....

    $14.99 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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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    • The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon
    • By: J. Paul Waymack
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • CELEBRATING MORE THAN 300 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS ATOP THE DOCTORS & MEDICINE HUMOR BESTSELLER CHARTS! There are things a man doesn’t talk about. And ...

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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 9,583 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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