Medical Memoirs

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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 614 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.

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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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    • 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 770 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....

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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 106 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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    • 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 9 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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    • 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 155 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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    • 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 1,650 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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    • 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 48 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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    • 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 171 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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    • 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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    • 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 2,198 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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    • 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 1,022 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 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 13 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.

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    • 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 267 ratings
    • In this collection of short stories, Dr. Green takes the listener inside the hidden emotional landscape of emergency medicine....

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    • By: Rebecca Yarros
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige, Carly Robins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,922 ratings
    • A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming....

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    • A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
    • By: Henry Jay Przybylo MD
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is a source of great fear and fascination....

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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 604 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 doctor's journey to find hope and healing beyond the broken medical system
    • By: Robin Youngson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Driven by childhood trauma, a passionate engineer turned doctor confronts the suffering within the medical system. Expecting to find compassion and...

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    • The Complete Story
    • By: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"....

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