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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 2,137 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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    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • By: Kate Moore
    • Narrated by: Angela Brazil
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,493 ratings
    • As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

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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 16,654 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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    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,320 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • A Biography of Cancer
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,668 ratings
    • The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....

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    • An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 827 ratings
    • From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....

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    • A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,498 ratings
    • James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....

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    • An Intimate History
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,887 ratings
    • Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....

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    • A Biography of Polio
    • By: Forrest Maready
    • Narrated by: Forrest Maready
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 479 ratings
    • A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,881 ratings
    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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    • The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,850 ratings
    • In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

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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 434 ratings
    • A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 951 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    • By: Timothy C. Winegard
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....

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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,238 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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    • History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
    • By: Jennifer Wright
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,744 ratings
    • Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them....

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    • A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,133 ratings
    • Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive for best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable - in Boston, India, Iraq, and in malpractice courtrooms....

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    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,382 ratings
    • This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease....

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