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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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    • 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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    • A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
    • By: Theresa Brown
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • In her former career as an English professor, Theresa Brown had been shielded from the harsh reality of death. That all changed the day she decided to become an oncology nurse....

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    • Body, Illness, and Ethics
    • By: Arthur Frank
    • Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. In this new edition, Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written....

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    • Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
    • By: Ed Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 331 ratings
    • They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road....

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    • Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
    • By: Jason Kelly
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything takes the listener behind the scenes of these firms: their famous billionaire founders, the overlapping stories of their creation and evolution, and the outsized ambitions....

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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 364 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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    • How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
    • By: Janice P. Nimura
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality
    • By: Shelley Fraser Mickle
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant....

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    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,488 ratings
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

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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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    • 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 1,331 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....

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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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    • 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 56 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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    • The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy, 2nd Edition
    • By: Bradley C. Birkenfeld
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • As a private banker working for the largest bank in the world, UBS, Bradley Birkenfeld was an expert in Switzerland's shell-game of offshore companies and secret numbered accounts. But when he discovered that UBS was planning to betray him, he blew the whistle to the US government....

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