Medical Memoirs

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,696 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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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 498 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 Little Book of Big Things Nursing School Forgot to Teach You
    • By: Sonja Schwartzbach BSN RN CCRN
    • Narrated by: Sonja Schwartzbach
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 500 ratings
    • Whether you're a new nurse or a veteran member of the clan, the nursing learning curve is a vast one. Part how-to guide with a touch of memoir thrown in, take the time to laugh and cry with an author who says what everyone else in the field is thinking....

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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 761 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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    • 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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    • 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 48 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....

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    • Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
    • By: Eric Manheimer
    • Narrated by: Eric Manheimer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • Twelve Patients is a memoir from the medical director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of 12 very different patients to illustrate larger societal issues....

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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 161 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 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 141 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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    • 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 2,180 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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    • A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
    • By: Cassandra Alexander
    • Narrated by: Dolly Payne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down—and how 2021 is going....

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    • Memoirs of America's Most Controversial Forensic Pathologist
    • By: Cyril H. Wecht MD JD, Jeff Sewald
    • Narrated by: Mike Hennessy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • For six decades, Pittsburgh-based forensic scientist Cyril Wecht has been an outspoken authority when horrible things happen to everyday people--murders, childhood deaths, tragic accidents and police brutality.

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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 9,422 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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    • 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 22 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....

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

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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 2,787 ratings
    • You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....

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    • Life Lessons from Leukemia
    • By: Mikkael A. Sekeres
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions....

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    • One Woman’s Battle for a Diagnosis and a Fighting Chance
    • By: Katie Coleman
    • Narrated by: Katie Coleman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Too Young for Cancer tells the story of Katie Coleman's journey from diagnosis with an ultra-rare cancer through treatment, recovery, and a life-altering shift in perspective.

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    • 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 1,888 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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    • By: Molly McAdams
    • Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Tim Paige
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,688 ratings
    • If my childhood taught me anything, it was to survive. Now I have a deep-rooted mistrust of people and a wall of steel and ice surrounding my heart. So, when Reed Ryan steps into my life, I know I need to keep him far away....

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