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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 2,044 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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    • A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
    • By: Uché Blackstock MD
    • Narrated by: Uché Blackstock MD
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians.

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    • Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,843 ratings
    • Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....

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    • Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
    • By: Sheri Fink
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,543 ratings
    • After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....

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    • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
    • By: Louise Aronson
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

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    • A Doctor's Guide to Personal Finance and Investing
    • By: James M. Dahle MD
    • Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,259 ratings
    • The White Coat Investor is a manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar professionals....

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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 292 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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    • How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
    • By: John Abramson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health....

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    • A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
    • By: Katy Butler
    • Narrated by: Katy Butler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • An inspiring, informative, and practical guide to navigating end-of-life issues, by a groundbreaking expert in the field and the New York Times best-selling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door....

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    • How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
    • By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 985 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
    • By: David Schneider MD
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....

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    • What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
    • By: Marty Makary MD
    • Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 912 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it....

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    • By: Jerome Groopman M.D.
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 744 ratings
    • In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make....

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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 2,128 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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    • A 12-Step High-Yield Guide to Bring Your Finances up to Speed
    • By: James M. Dahle
    • Narrated by: Tyler Rouse
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Financial Boot Camp will teach you what you need to know to joint the ranks of these financially secure doctors. It starts at the very beginning and is filled with straight talk and clear explanations. Although appropriate for the financial novice....

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    • The Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness
    • By: Bradley Bale MD, Amy Doneen DNP, Lisa Collier Cool - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Every 40 seconds, someone in the US suffers a heart attack or stroke, and every 65 seconds someone develops dementia. The culprit is cardiovascular disease - and rates are soaring in younger, seemingly healthy people....

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    • Unforgettable Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
    • By: Dr. Aoife Abbey
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • For fans of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, an intensive care doctor reveals how everyday emotions are taken to extremes in the ICU....

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    • A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
    • By: Thomas Fisher
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....

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    • How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children
    • By: Louise Kuo Habakus - editor, Mary Holland - editor
    • Narrated by: Kris Koscheski, Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • National polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices....

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