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Bestsellers
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19....
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Could be shorter
- By Evan Snow on 01-03-22
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- By Kate on 06-04-15
By: Anne Fadiman
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Invisible Labor
- The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section
- By: Rachel Somerstein
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section, Invisible Labor is an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical care.
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The AI Revolution in Medicine
- GPT-4 and Beyond
- By: Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, Isaac Kohane
- Narrated by: J. Hunter Ackerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Just months ago, millions of people were stunned by ChatGPT's amazing abilities–and its bizarre hallucinations. But that was 2022. GPT-4 is now here, with smarter, more accurate, and deeper technical knowledge....
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Self-Serving Junk
- By Memphis Matt on 09-11-23
By: Peter Lee, and others
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice
- Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
- By: Carl Elliott
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
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Boring
- By Lyn on 05-19-24
By: Carl Elliott
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Ethics for Behavior Analysts
- By: Jon S. Bailey, Mary R. Burch
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This fully updated fourth edition of Jon S. Bailey and Mary R. Burch’s bestselling Ethics for Behavior Analysts is an invaluable guide....
By: Jon S. Bailey, and others
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19....
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Could be shorter
- By Evan Snow on 01-03-22
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- By Kate on 06-04-15
By: Anne Fadiman
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Invisible Labor
- The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section
- By: Rachel Somerstein
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section, Invisible Labor is an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical care.
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The AI Revolution in Medicine
- GPT-4 and Beyond
- By: Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, Isaac Kohane
- Narrated by: J. Hunter Ackerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Just months ago, millions of people were stunned by ChatGPT's amazing abilities–and its bizarre hallucinations. But that was 2022. GPT-4 is now here, with smarter, more accurate, and deeper technical knowledge....
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Self-Serving Junk
- By Memphis Matt on 09-11-23
By: Peter Lee, and others
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice
- Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
- By: Carl Elliott
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
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Boring
- By Lyn on 05-19-24
By: Carl Elliott
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Ethics for Behavior Analysts
- By: Jon S. Bailey, Mary R. Burch
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This fully updated fourth edition of Jon S. Bailey and Mary R. Burch’s bestselling Ethics for Behavior Analysts is an invaluable guide....
By: Jon S. Bailey, and others
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The Laws of Medicine
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The Laws of Medicine is a critical book not just for those in the medical profession but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being are being treated....
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Insightful, sincere and succinct. Not Mukherjee's best.
- By Saurav on 12-20-15
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America....
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Significantly outdated.
- By Bill Hawks on 02-15-24
By: Adam Rutherford
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Extreme Measures
- Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
- By: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
- Narrated by: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care....
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Brilliant & eye-opening
- By Bob Kelley on 03-16-17
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Blind Eye
- By: James B. Stewart
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Abridged
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No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer....
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Abridgement
- By E O on 03-10-10
By: James B. Stewart
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The People's Hospital
- Hope and Peril in American Medicine
- By: Ricardo Nuila MD
- Narrated by: Ricardo Nuila MD
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians....
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Niche perspective
- By Kathleen Garcia on 05-07-23
By: Ricardo Nuila MD
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What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
- By: Danielle Ofri MD
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses....
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Newbie review follows. Be ware
- By Dennis Adler on 09-15-17
By: Danielle Ofri MD
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Imposter Doctors
- Patients at Risk
- By: Rebekah Bernard
- Narrated by: Rebekah Bernard
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From the co-author of Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare, the first book to warn of the systematic replacement of physicians, comes Imposter Doctors, an even more frightening exposé of patient endangerment....
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Fantastic, balanced book
- By Michael Elliott on 06-28-23
By: Rebekah Bernard
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The Danger Within Us
- America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
- By: Jeanne Lenzer
- Narrated by: Jeanne Lenzer
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The majority of high-risk implanted medical devices have never undergone a single clinical trial. The FDA lets device manufacturers decide whether to report serious complications or deaths....
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3 eye rolls x bias x lack of sufficient objective support
- By xmend on 11-29-19
By: Jeanne Lenzer
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Ante todo no hagas daño [Do No Harm]
- By: Henry Marsh, Patricia Antón de Vez Ayala-Duarte - translator
- Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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El eminente neurocirujano británico Henry Marsh expone a ojos del mundo la esencia de una de las especialidades médicas más difíciles, delicadas y fascinantes que existen....
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Supremamente ilustrativo y entretenido
- By Jahzeel on 01-02-23
By: Henry Marsh, and others
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Your Consent Is Not Required
- The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
- By: Rob Wipond
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated "for their own good" than at any time in history....
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A compelling and comprehensive read on the abuses in modern psychiatry
- By SummerSawe on 02-01-24
By: Rob Wipond
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The Red Market
- On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
- By: Scott Carney
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads listeners on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market....
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an important book on an overlooked subject
- By Anonymous User on 06-07-20
By: Scott Carney
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Policing Pregnant Bodies
- From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
- By: Kathleen M. Crowther
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian Kathleen M. Crowther discusses the deeply rooted medical and philosophical ideas that continue to reverberate in the politics of women’s health and reproductive autonomy....
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Blood Farm
- The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis
- By: Cara McGoogan
- Narrated by: Cara McGoogan
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan daringly exposes an expansive map of corporate greed and negligence that led to one of the biggest overlooked medical scandals in history....
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A must read / listen to story
- By Tyler on 04-04-24
By: Cara McGoogan
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Lightning Flowers
- My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
- By: Katherine E. Standefer
- Narrated by: Katherine E. Standefer
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator....
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Eye opening and heart wrenching
- By FSRasheed on 11-19-20
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Superhuman
- The Future of Drugs, Bioelectronics, and Genetic Medicine
- By: Michael Bess
- Narrated by: Michael Bess
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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In the near future, developments in bio-enhancement technologies will not only alter how we make a living, communicate, and interact with each other, but will offer direct and precise control over our physical and mental states. People will be able to sculpt their own selfhood over time....
By: Michael Bess
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The Case Against Perfection
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature....
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The author made his case considering objections
- By Philippe on 01-30-24
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The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession
- Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
- By: Farr Curlin, Christopher Tollefsen
- Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model....
By: Farr Curlin, and others
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We Want Them Infected
- How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of Covid
- By: Jonathan Howard
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The problem with pandemics is that people want to forget them. One year, a million Americans are killed by a deadly new virus. The next, everyone is back rooting for the Georgia Bulldogs. The impulse to move on from this particular kind of tragedy is more than a little odd....
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THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF THE ANTI-VAXX DOCTORS
- By Charles J. Tongren on 08-29-23
By: Jonathan Howard
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Quick Fixes
- Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
- By: Benjamin Y. Fong
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Quick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love and intense hatred for drugs has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century.
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Excellent
- By M&M on 05-10-24
By: Benjamin Y. Fong
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Carte Blanche
- The Erosion of Medical Consent (Columbia Global Reports)
- By: Harriet Washington
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say "no" to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for COVID-19....
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EVERY CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
- By Rachel Buck on 10-07-21
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Mengele and Nazi Doctors During the Third Reich
- Children’s Experiments and the Racial Utopia for Opportunity and Careerism
- By: Joshua Itzkowitz
- Narrated by: Jack Stonemason
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The experiments conducted during World War II provide some of the most extreme examples in breaches of human rights and ethics the world has so far seen. There is no benefit in considering the Nazi experiments as “other” or irrelevant....
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Information is good
- By KPPP on 07-07-21
By: Joshua Itzkowitz
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Rigor Mortis
- How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
- By: Richard Harris
- Narrated by: Joe Delafield
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated....
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Eye opening introduction to biomedical R&D
- By Amazon Customer on 09-18-18
By: Richard Harris
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Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work
- By: Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson, Steven Roy Daviss
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Finally, a book that explains everything you ever wanted to know about psychiatry....
By: Dinah Miller, and others
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Real AIDS Epidemic
- How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All
- By: Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom - foreword
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong....
By: Rebecca V. Culshaw, and others
New releases
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Issues in Health Care
- Ethical, Legal & Human Rights
- By: John Montgomery
- Narrated by: John Warwick Montgomery
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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John Montgomery examines legal and ethical issues surrounding the questions of suicide and assisted suicide, the issues in health care: rights of the unborn, ethics in a changing health care system, and human dignity in birth and death: a question of values.
By: John Montgomery
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Beyond Diagnosis
- Perspective in Medicine and the Human Experience
- By: Dr. Francisco M. Torres MD
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In over 30 years as a physician, Dr. Francisco Torres has seen the face of medicine change. He has authored books exploring the connection between genetics, lifestyle, and wellness and a memoir covering his colorful family background and his struggle with anxiety and body image issues. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Torres’ essays about the art and science of medicine have been a regular feature on the medical websites KevinMD and Doximity. Now, he presents all of these essays in one collection documenting his reflections as an experienced physician practicing medicine through COVID-19,...
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice
- Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
- By: Carl Elliott
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers. The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
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Boring
- By Lyn on 05-19-24
By: Carl Elliott
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Doctor Goldman's Guide to Effective Patient Communication
- Explanations of the Most Common Medical Conditions in Layperson's Terms and Helpful Provider-Patient Interactions
- By: Kissinger Goldman
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Giving case studies in a variety of patient care environments, Dr. Goldman utilizes contemporary terminology and references to master fundamental skills to help facilitate effective doctor-patient interaction when communicating diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and recovery.
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You're Not a Doctor
- Why Physicians Are Needed
- By: Dr. Aurora Sapphire
- Narrated by: Slade Hovick
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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"You're Not a Doctor: Why Physicians Are Needed" is a compelling exploration of the contentious issue of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) seeking greater autonomy in healthcare. As I near the end of my medical school journey, I share firsthand experiences and insights into the risks and rewards of granting midlevel providers more independence.
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Hilariously Accurate!!!
- By Joel on 05-14-24
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- By: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
By: Susan E. Lederer
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Issues in Health Care
- Ethical, Legal & Human Rights
- By: John Montgomery
- Narrated by: John Warwick Montgomery
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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John Montgomery examines legal and ethical issues surrounding the questions of suicide and assisted suicide, the issues in health care: rights of the unborn, ethics in a changing health care system, and human dignity in birth and death: a question of values.
By: John Montgomery
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Beyond Diagnosis
- Perspective in Medicine and the Human Experience
- By: Dr. Francisco M. Torres MD
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In over 30 years as a physician, Dr. Francisco Torres has seen the face of medicine change. He has authored books exploring the connection between genetics, lifestyle, and wellness and a memoir covering his colorful family background and his struggle with anxiety and body image issues. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Torres’ essays about the art and science of medicine have been a regular feature on the medical websites KevinMD and Doximity. Now, he presents all of these essays in one collection documenting his reflections as an experienced physician practicing medicine through COVID-19,...
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice
- Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
- By: Carl Elliott
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers. The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
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Boring
- By Lyn on 05-19-24
By: Carl Elliott
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Doctor Goldman's Guide to Effective Patient Communication
- Explanations of the Most Common Medical Conditions in Layperson's Terms and Helpful Provider-Patient Interactions
- By: Kissinger Goldman
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Giving case studies in a variety of patient care environments, Dr. Goldman utilizes contemporary terminology and references to master fundamental skills to help facilitate effective doctor-patient interaction when communicating diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and recovery.
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You're Not a Doctor
- Why Physicians Are Needed
- By: Dr. Aurora Sapphire
- Narrated by: Slade Hovick
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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"You're Not a Doctor: Why Physicians Are Needed" is a compelling exploration of the contentious issue of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) seeking greater autonomy in healthcare. As I near the end of my medical school journey, I share firsthand experiences and insights into the risks and rewards of granting midlevel providers more independence.
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Hilariously Accurate!!!
- By Joel on 05-14-24
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- By: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
By: Susan E. Lederer