Surgery Memoir

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    • 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 1,601 ratings
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

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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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    • 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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    • A Biography of Brain Surgery
    • By: Theodore H. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery Theodore H. Schwartz explores what it’s like to hold the scalpel, wield the drill, extract a tumor, fix a bullet hole, and remove a blood clot—when every second can mean life or death.

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
    • By: Wendy Moore
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • In The Knife Man, Wendy Moore unveils John Hunter's murky and macabre world - a world characterized by public hangings....

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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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    • A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 436 ratings
    • A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine....

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    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,362 ratings
    • In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....

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    • A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
    • By: Stephen Westaby
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death....

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    • A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
    • By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 876 ratings
    • Dr. Mütter's Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of 19th-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room"....

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    • The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
    • By: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 577 ratings
    • Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations and never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, came startling news: a revolutionary stem-cell transplant surgery could restore May's sight....

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    • Life as a Brain Surgeon
    • By: Henry Marsh
    • Narrated by: Henry Marsh
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • Marsh finds a different purpose in life as he approaches the end of his professional career and a fresh understanding of what matters to us all in the end....

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    • The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
    • By: G. Wayne Miller
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...

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    • A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

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    • A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
    • By: Dr. Mark Shrime
    • Narrated by: Dr. Mark Shrime
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • From Mercy Ships surgeon Dr. Mark G. Shrime comes an inspiring memoir about finding the answer to life's biggest question - "Why?" - and about following that answer through remarkable, unlikely places on the road to fulfillment, purpose, and joy....

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    • A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery
    • By: Joan Rivers
    • Narrated by: Joan Rivers
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • A social commentary, comedy, memoir, and practical, info-packed journey into beauty treatments including plastic surgery....

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    • Gender Transition at a Mature Age
    • By: Dr. Anne L. Koch
    • Narrated by: Dr. Anne L. Koch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • If you are transgendered, the feeling of wanting your body to match the sex you feel you are never goes away. For some, though, especially those who grew up before trans people were widely out and advocating for equality, these feelings were often compartmentalized and rarely acted upon....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel - translator
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time....

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