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When she was 18, she joined the army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this
- De N. Thomas en 02-13-20
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On Division
- A Novel
- De: Goldie Goldbloom
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her 10 children range in age from 13 to 39. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was 16, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of 57 and 62, they are looking forward to some quiet time together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book
- De Sab en 04-24-20
De: Goldie Goldbloom
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Patient Care
- Death and Life in the Emergency Room
- De: Paul Seward MD
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Recalling remarkable cases - and people - from a career launched in the first days of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Paul Seward leads us in his memoir through suspenseful diagnoses and explorations of anatomy. Within the conditions of great stress and rapid decision-making that are routine in the ER, Dr. Seward tells us that medical staff must be more than technicians of the body: They must be restorers of the human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very enjoyable
- De Patricia Oxenham en 03-21-19
De: Paul Seward MD
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Healing Hearts
- A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
- De: Kathy Magliato
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group - those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a wife and mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Healing Hearts
- De Jean en 01-14-12
De: Kathy Magliato
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Blood and Guts
- A History of Surgery
- De: Richard Hollingham
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 53
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in 30 seconds - from first cut to final stitch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this book!
- De Kristin en 08-25-19
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Hiroshima
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 972
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 840
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 844
A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 - the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors - and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hiroshima, the days and years that followed
- De Julia en 04-15-15
De: John Hersey
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Small Steps
- The Year I Got Polio
- De: Peg Kehret
- Narrado por: Susan Boyce
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 417
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 354
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 355
Acclaimed author Peg Kehret has written the true story of the year when she was twelve and stricken with polio. At first paralyzed and terrified, she fought her way to recovery, aided by doctors and therapists, a loving family, supportive roommates fighting their own battles with the disease, and plenty of grit and luck. With the humor and suspense that are her trademarks, Peg Kehret vividly recreates a year of heartbreak and triumph.
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4 out of 5 stars
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11 year old reviewer
- De T. R. Humperdink en 04-26-17
De: Peg Kehret
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God's Hotel
- A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- De: Victoria Sweet
- Narrado por: Victoria Sweet
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De kayla solomon en 04-08-17
De: Victoria Sweet
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Birth
- The Surprising History of How We Are Born
- De: Tina Cassidy
- Narrado por: Angela Starling
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we're born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia, but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth?
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4 out of 5 stars
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important historical work, fascinating and fun
- De RT en 02-24-16
De: Tina Cassidy
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Birth Day
- A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth
- De: Mark Sloan MD
- Narrado por: Mark Sloan MD
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned 24 and starting my third year of medical school." So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly 3000 births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book - Heavy on the History
- De Robert Ingalls en 03-16-17
De: Mark Sloan MD
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- De: Anne Fadiman
- Narrado por: Pamela Xiong
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,061
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,753
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,750
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- De Kate en 06-04-15
De: Anne Fadiman
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Smile
- The Story of a Face
- De: Sarah Ruhl
- Narrado por: Sarah Ruhl
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that 90 percent of Bell’s palsy patients experience a full recovery—like Ruhl’s own mother. But Sarah is in the unlucky ten percent. And for a woman, wife, mother, and artist working in theater, the paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior brings significant and specific challenges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Synkinesis: I am there
- De Elizabeth Principi en 11-04-21
De: Sarah Ruhl
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The Hole
- De: Hye-Young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell - translator
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi wakes from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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really dark stuff
- De Melissa Eisner en 02-02-21
De: Hye-Young Pyun, y otros
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Do No Harm
- Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
- De: Henry Marsh
- Narrado por: Jim Barclay
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,594
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,443
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,442
With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Uneven
- De Scott en 06-02-15
De: Henry Marsh
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A Seaside Practice
- Tales of a Scottish Country Doctor
- De: Dr Tom Smith
- Narrado por: Dr Tom Smith
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 309
Heartwarming and gloriously eccentric, Dr Tom's stories capture the beauty of the Lowlands, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants and the richly rewarding experiences of life as a Scottish country doctor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging Memoir
- De Jean en 10-16-17
De: Dr Tom Smith
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Yes Sister, No Sister
- My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire
- De: Jennifer Craig
- Narrado por: Jennifer Craig
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
In Jennifer Craig's enchanting memoir, we meet these warm-hearted yet naïve young girls as they get to grips with strict discipline, long hours and bodily fluids. But we also see the camaraderie that develops in evening study sessions, sneaked trips to the cinema and mischievous escapades with the young trainee doctors. The harsh conditions prove too much for some girls, but the opportunity to help her patients in their time of need is too much of a pull for Jenny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed it but it probably isn't for everyone
- De Jilly en 02-11-12
De: Jennifer Craig
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
- A Novel
- De: Juliet Grames
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 593
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misogyny at its worst
- De brenda en 01-15-20
De: Juliet Grames