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Great Minds of Medicine

By: Dr. William Castelli, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Dr. Karl Johnson, more
Narrated by: Laurie Garrett
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What's it like to live with manic depression? What should you know about hospital emergency rooms? Could you help find the world's deadliest microbes? Great Minds of Medicine enlightens, informs, and ultimately empowers you. These five interviews, featuring the world's top specialists chosen by the editors of Health magazine, will provide you with valuable information that is comprehensible, accessible, and easily absorbed. Listen to the wisdom and philosophy of the medical world's foremost leaders as they explore heart disease, depression, infectious diseases, cancer, and emergency medicine.
©1999 Unapix Entertainment, Inc. and WGBH Educational Foundation (P)1999 Unapix Entertainment, Inc. and WGBH Educational Foundation; 1999 First Simon & Schuster Edition

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good material, not so good sound quality

What made the experience of listening to Great Minds of Medicine the most enjoyable?

it was great to hear first-person accounts of such important medical advances

Who was your favorite character and why?

n/a - not a novel

How could the performance have been better?

the sound quality of the interviews was not so good
some of the interviewer questions made her seem ill-informed (eg confusing psychology w psychiatry in the name of an association!!!)
the repeated

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no but it made me google some topics for more info

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