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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 516 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 332 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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    • 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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    • A Journey Through the Madness Industry
    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry....

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    • A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
    • By: Jon McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Known as one of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans plays host to incidents ranging from the tragic and disturbing to the completely bizarre - and during his career as an emergency medic, Jon McCarthy saw it all....

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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 151 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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    • By: Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
    • Narrated by: Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, various
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,512 ratings
    • A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself - by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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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 216 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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    • By: Michael Specter
    • Narrated by: Michael Specter
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 10-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,993 ratings
    • Pushkin Industries presents Fauci: the first-ever audio biography of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most prominent voices in the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic....

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    • A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Peter Canning
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • A first responder to hundreds of overdoses throughout the rise of America's epidemic, Peter Canning tells stories of opioid overdose from a street-level vantage point....

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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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    • The Life of Nate Shaw
    • By: Theodore Rosengarten
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • All God's Dangers is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, Black and White....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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