- Educators (164)
Best sellers
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The 2% Way
- How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery
- By: Dr. Myron L. Rolle
- Narrated by: Charles Ray
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this inspiring book, Dr. Rolle tells the story of his incredible journey, revealing how a strong work ethic, deep faith, and the family values instilled by his Bahamian immigrant parents set the stage for the transformative life philosophy that enabled him to overcome adversity....
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My 2¢ on the 2%
- By Robert on 05-18-22
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When Breath Becomes Air
- By: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer....
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Really good, but not as good as...
- By Anon E Mouse on 02-21-16
By: Paul Kalanithi, and others
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Between Two Kingdoms
- A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to reentry into “normal” life....
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Just ok--maybe not the audience for this...
- By NMwritergal on 02-21-21
By: Suleika Jaouad
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Good Morning, Monster
- A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
- By: Catherine Gildiner
- Narrated by: Deborah Burgess
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and shows such as In Treatment, a riveting look behind the closed door of the therapist's office....
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Wow!
- By Trinity H. on 03-27-21
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Many stories in one
- By Ryan on 04-14-12
By: Rebecca Skloot
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Left on Tenth
- A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir
- By: Delia Ephron
- Narrated by: Delia Ephron
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life - she shut down his landline....
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Cover to cover in a day
- By Ginny Kubek on 04-24-22
By: Delia Ephron
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The 2% Way
- How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery
- By: Dr. Myron L. Rolle
- Narrated by: Charles Ray
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this inspiring book, Dr. Rolle tells the story of his incredible journey, revealing how a strong work ethic, deep faith, and the family values instilled by his Bahamian immigrant parents set the stage for the transformative life philosophy that enabled him to overcome adversity....
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My 2¢ on the 2%
- By Robert on 05-18-22
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When Breath Becomes Air
- By: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer....
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Really good, but not as good as...
- By Anon E Mouse on 02-21-16
By: Paul Kalanithi, and others
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Between Two Kingdoms
- A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to reentry into “normal” life....
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Just ok--maybe not the audience for this...
- By NMwritergal on 02-21-21
By: Suleika Jaouad
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Good Morning, Monster
- A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
- By: Catherine Gildiner
- Narrated by: Deborah Burgess
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and shows such as In Treatment, a riveting look behind the closed door of the therapist's office....
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Wow!
- By Trinity H. on 03-27-21
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Many stories in one
- By Ryan on 04-14-12
By: Rebecca Skloot
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Left on Tenth
- A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir
- By: Delia Ephron
- Narrated by: Delia Ephron
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life - she shut down his landline....
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Cover to cover in a day
- By Ginny Kubek on 04-24-22
By: Delia Ephron
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Hidden Valley Road
- Inside the Mind of an American Family
- By: Robert Kolker
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....
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A story you've never heard before
- By Kelley Cox on 04-19-20
By: Robert Kolker
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Proof of Heaven
- A Neurosurgeon's Near-Death Experience and Journey into the Afterlife
- By: Eben Alexander
- Narrated by: Eben Alexander
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon's minute-by-minute account of his own near-death experience - and what he discovered in the heavenly realm beyond life.....
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So much better than I expected
- By Brock on 04-11-13
By: Eben Alexander
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The Beauty of Dusk
- On Vision Lost and Found
- By: Frank Bruni
- Narrated by: Frank Bruni
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience....
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Beautiful and optimistic
- By Robin Cleavenger on 03-05-22
By: Frank Bruni
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Building a Life Worth Living
- A Memoir
- By: Marsha M. Linehan
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Stephen Mendel
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others....
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What an amazing journey!!
- By Sharon-nyc on 01-31-20
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life
- A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better
- By: Wendy Suzuki, Billie Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Wendy Suzuki
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brains, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide....
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More Personal than Scientific
- By Brian Corbin on 05-14-16
By: Wendy Suzuki, and others
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums....
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The best book I've listened to this year
- By Richard on 06-12-13
By: Jennifer Worth
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My Stroke of Insight
- By: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In My Stroke of Insight, Taylor shares her perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this inspiring voyage....
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The Why of the Review
- By Larry N. on 06-14-12
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Brain on Fire
- My Month of Madness
- By: Susannah Cahalan
- Narrated by: Susannah Cahalan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life....
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A must read for anyone in the medical field, and anyone who has ever gone undiagnosed.
- By Sarah M Valentino on 05-13-20
By: Susannah Cahalan
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The Invisible Kingdom
- Reimagining Chronic Illness
- By: Meghan O'Rourke
- Narrated by: Meghan O'Rourke
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases....
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Humbling. Heart-Opening. Disturbing.
- By Melissa E. Penn on 03-02-22
By: Meghan O'Rourke
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Everything Happens for a Reason
- And Other Lies I've Loved
- By: Kate Bowler
- Narrated by: Kate Bowler
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God's disapproval....
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Please give me back the lost hours of my life!
- By Charles on 03-24-19
By: Kate Bowler
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All Creatures Great and Small
- The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients....
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The narrator, Nicholas Ralph, is perfect
- By C. Beaton on 01-28-21
By: James Herriot
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Projections
- A Story of Human Emotions
- By: Karl Deisseroth
- Narrated by: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings....
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Authors, USE BETTER NARRATORS!!
- By aaron on 08-28-21
By: Karl Deisseroth
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
- The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
- By: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Kidder tells the true story of a socially conscious genius who uses his intellectual and personal gifts to solve global health problems.
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A Great Book
- By MikeInOhio on 11-22-03
By: Tracy Kidder
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This Is Going to Hurt
- Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine....
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Bravo
- By Lei on 03-21-22
By: Adam Kay
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When the Air Hits Your Brain
- Tales from Neurosurgery
- By: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain and more....
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Finished in 1 and 1/2 days
- By Andrew on 04-15-17
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Ghost Boy
- The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
- By: Martin Pistorius
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years....
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Very Interesting to me personally
- By Karen K on 07-13-15
By: Martin Pistorius
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Anxiety Rx
- A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It
- By: Russell Kennedy MD
- Narrated by: Russell Kennedy MD
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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I’ve gone from being a hapless victim of my anxiety, never knowing when it would end, to having a path that helps me every single time anxiety comes up. People with anxiety are confused because they don't know what is happening to them....
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Best resource I've found for my anxiety!
- By JD92010 on 01-04-22
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
- By: Cecil Murphey, Ben Carson MD
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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This best-selling book reveals the extraordinary life of Dr. Ben Carson - from inner-city kid to renowned neurosurgeon....
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Absolutely inspiring!
- By Ruth Anne on 03-13-13
By: Cecil Murphey, and others
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The Reason I Jump
- The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
- By: Naoki Higashida
- Narrated by: Tom Picasso
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....
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Insightful but left me skeptical
- By JoAnn on 06-25-14
By: Naoki Higashida
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The Good Nurse
- A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
- By: Charles Graeber
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media....
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The Good Nurse gets it right
- By jc on 05-28-13
By: Charles Graeber
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The Facemaker
- A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery....
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Working Stiff
- Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
- By: Judy Melinek MD, T. J. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist....
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Great story - but not for the faint of heart!
- By R. Freeman on 08-20-14
By: Judy Melinek MD, and others
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Every Living Thing
- The Complete Audio Collection
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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James Herriot is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time, a writer whose rich and unique literary gifts are matched by an exuberant gift for celebrating existence...
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Timeless and endearing!
- By Leigh on 03-23-13
By: James Herriot
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Women in White Coats
- How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
- By: Olivia Campbell
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care....
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Three courageous women you’ll be cheering on.
- By Maggie on 03-19-21
By: Olivia Campbell
New releases
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Cutthroat
- A Surgeon’s Fight Against Big Government, Corrupt Businessmen, and a Broken Healthcare System
- By: Steven J. Cyr
- Narrated by: Brandon Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the multibillion-dollar business of American medicine, doctors are often portrayed as culprits—opportunistic millionaires who prey on the misfortune of their hapless patients and drive up the cost of health care. But often they are the real victims of a system designed to increase profits for the insurance companies, shady businessmen, and Big Government.
By: Steven J. Cyr
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The 2% Way
- How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery
- By: Dr. Myron L. Rolle
- Narrated by: Charles Ray
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Story
In this inspiring book, Dr. Rolle tells the story of his incredible journey, revealing how a strong work ethic, deep faith, and the family values instilled by his Bahamian immigrant parents set the stage for the transformative life philosophy that enabled him to overcome adversity, defy expectations, and create a life of meaning and purpose.
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My 2¢ on the 2%
- By Robert on 05-18-22
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Frontline Midwife
- My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe
- By: Anna Kent
- Narrated by: Anna Kent
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At 26 years old, not yet a fully trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, she soon learned that even at home the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted.
By: Anna Kent
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The Premonitions Bureau
- A True Account of Death Foretold
- By: Sam Knight
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On the morning of October 21, 1966, Kathleen Middleton, a music teacher in suburban London, awoke choking and gasping, convinced disaster was about to strike. An hour later, a mountain of rubble containing waste from a coal mine collapsed above the village of Aberfan, swamping buildings and killing 144 people, many of them children. Among the doctors and emergency workers who arrived on the scene was John Barker, a psychiatrist from Shelton Hospital, in Shrewsbury.
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A book about Wales read by an Englishman
- By James A. Fergus on 05-17-22
By: Sam Knight
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Becoming Dr. Q
- My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
- By: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Mim Eichler Rivas
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a 19-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the fields of Central California. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story - from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School.
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Inspirational, Magical, and Empowering
- By nuvia torres on 05-13-22
By: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, and others
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Brain Dance
- My Journey with Invisible Illness, Second Chances, and the Wonders of Applied Neuroscience
- By: Diane Grimard Wilson
- Narrated by: Diane Grimard Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Narrated by the author, Diane Wilson shares her journey through random and sometimes humorous events of having an invisible illness, how her brain kept this injury even from herself, the loss of focus and sense of self, an obsession with day trading retirement funds, and the alternative therapies that helped heal her brain—a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, acupuncture, learning to sing, and, most centrally, neurofeedback.
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Cutthroat
- A Surgeon’s Fight Against Big Government, Corrupt Businessmen, and a Broken Healthcare System
- By: Steven J. Cyr
- Narrated by: Brandon Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the multibillion-dollar business of American medicine, doctors are often portrayed as culprits—opportunistic millionaires who prey on the misfortune of their hapless patients and drive up the cost of health care. But often they are the real victims of a system designed to increase profits for the insurance companies, shady businessmen, and Big Government.
By: Steven J. Cyr
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The 2% Way
- How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery
- By: Dr. Myron L. Rolle
- Narrated by: Charles Ray
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In this inspiring book, Dr. Rolle tells the story of his incredible journey, revealing how a strong work ethic, deep faith, and the family values instilled by his Bahamian immigrant parents set the stage for the transformative life philosophy that enabled him to overcome adversity, defy expectations, and create a life of meaning and purpose.
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My 2¢ on the 2%
- By Robert on 05-18-22
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Frontline Midwife
- My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe
- By: Anna Kent
- Narrated by: Anna Kent
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At 26 years old, not yet a fully trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, she soon learned that even at home the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted.
By: Anna Kent
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The Premonitions Bureau
- A True Account of Death Foretold
- By: Sam Knight
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On the morning of October 21, 1966, Kathleen Middleton, a music teacher in suburban London, awoke choking and gasping, convinced disaster was about to strike. An hour later, a mountain of rubble containing waste from a coal mine collapsed above the village of Aberfan, swamping buildings and killing 144 people, many of them children. Among the doctors and emergency workers who arrived on the scene was John Barker, a psychiatrist from Shelton Hospital, in Shrewsbury.
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A book about Wales read by an Englishman
- By James A. Fergus on 05-17-22
By: Sam Knight
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Becoming Dr. Q
- My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
- By: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Mim Eichler Rivas
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a 19-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the fields of Central California. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story - from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School.
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Inspirational, Magical, and Empowering
- By nuvia torres on 05-13-22
By: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, and others
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Brain Dance
- My Journey with Invisible Illness, Second Chances, and the Wonders of Applied Neuroscience
- By: Diane Grimard Wilson
- Narrated by: Diane Grimard Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Narrated by the author, Diane Wilson shares her journey through random and sometimes humorous events of having an invisible illness, how her brain kept this injury even from herself, the loss of focus and sense of self, an obsession with day trading retirement funds, and the alternative therapies that helped heal her brain—a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, acupuncture, learning to sing, and, most centrally, neurofeedback.
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How We Beat Breast Cancer
- 32 Inspiring Stories of Women and Men Who Won the Battle Against Breast Cancer
- By: Lilit Netivor
- Narrated by: Summer Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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These heartwarming and inspiring stories by brave women and men who have survived breast cancer are a must-listen for anyone personally or indirectly afflicted by the disease. How We Beat Breast Cancer brings together the experiences, thoughts, struggles, and victories of unique women and men from all walks of life, who tell the stories of their battles with breast cancer. Their narratives portray both the good and the bad in a real, candid language, sharing everything from diagnosis, through treatment, to life with and after cancer.
By: Lilit Netivor
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The Second Chance in Life
- By: Dr. Bhaskar Bora
- Narrated by: Ledjan Micani
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Just when life seemed rosy and the sun was shining, Dr. Bhaskar Bora sustained a severe spinal cord injury in July 2019 following an operation, which left him with paralysis of both legs, a nonfunctioning right hand, and a long stay in the hospital, eventually leading to a forced medical retirement from his medical career and a wheelchair in place of a sports car. Poorer financially but richer in experiences of life, he is now a voice for the disabled and has written the book The Second Chance in Life as an honest reflection of his life experiences.
By: Dr. Bhaskar Bora
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American Seoul
- A Memoir
- By: Helena Rho
- Narrated by: Helena Rho
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas - both professional and personal - that left her anxious yet determined to escape.
By: Helena Rho
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Confined to Align
- A Journey to Wellbeing
- By: Ashley Lynn Olson
- Narrated by: Kodie Warnell
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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“Ten years after a car accident paralyzed my legs, a pressure sore infection escalated into a life-or-death scenario requiring emergency surgery, followed by an extended recovery in a nursing home. For weeks, I was confined to a special medical bed, where I was not allowed to sit up, but required to remain on my back 24/7. This is the story of my search for peace and sanity during that claustrophobic confinement, which subsequently led to a deeper understanding and alignment of my internal, eternal well-being". (Author Ashley Lyn Olson).
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Getting Through It
- My Year of Cancer During COVID
- By: Helen Epstein
- Narrated by: Helen Epstein
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Just after COVID arrived in North America, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer—one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021. About 600,000 American women have had it. A candid and eye-opening account of a medical steeplechase of surgery, chemo, and radiation therapy, Getting Through It brings together reporting, research, and elements of memoir to tell an important story. A guide for other women, their caregivers, and their families.
By: Helen Epstein
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The Magic in the Tin
- A Brutal and Poignant Account of One Man's Journey Through Prostate Cancer
- By: Paul Ferris
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Former Newcastle United winger Paul Ferris was 51. He had successfully forged a post-football career as a physio, barrister and then a CEO, and his award-winning memoir, The Boy on the Shed, was just about to be published. But then he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. This honest, sometimes brutal and frequently funny book tells the story of what happened next.
By: Paul Ferris
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I Love You More
- By: Martha L. Garmon
- Narrated by: Martha L. Garmon
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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Martha is ambitious, competitive, successful, and now divorced. As she seeks to reinvent herself, she joins a dating site looking for companionship. Instead, she finds her soul mate in Stephan. They do everything together: work, travel, dance, sing, and love. Everything changes when Stephan is diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and then with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS—Lou Gehrig's disease). As the diseases progress, the dynamic, vivacious man Martha married disappears. Does Martha have what it takes to care for him?
By: Martha L. Garmon
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A Caring Life
- What Fifty Years in Nursing Has Taught Me About Humanity, Compassion and Community
- By: Keith Cox, Grant Jones
- Narrated by: Ant Neate
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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As a nurse for nearly 50 years, Keith Cox provided expert care and comfort to countless people facing the unimaginable. With insight and sensitivity, A Caring Life takes us behind the scenes of his remarkable nursing career and the moving stories of hope, determination and loss that underpinned it. Along the way, he shares lessons gained from a career spent confronting mortality, from finding joy in difficult circumstances to understanding that true strength comes in thinking of others and being part of a community.
By: Keith Cox, and others
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One Pair of Feet
- Virago Modern Classics
- By: Monica Dickens, Lissa Evans
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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As the effects of the war raging in Europe begins to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to pursue a new career and so enrols as a student nurse at a hospital. By nature clever and spirited, she struggles to submit to the iron rule of the Matron and Sisters and is alternately infuriated and charmed by her patients. That's not to mention the mountains of menial work that are a trainee's lot. But there are friends among the staff and patients, night-time escapades to dances with dashing army men and her secret writing project to keep her going.
By: Monica Dickens, and others
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The Song of Our Scars
- The Untold Story of Pain
- By: Haider Warraich
- Narrated by: Haider Warraich, Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience. Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suffering mattered and whose didn’t.
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Not good for me...
- By Chad on 05-03-22
By: Haider Warraich
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What We Wish Were True
- Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
- By: Tallu Schuyler Quinn
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan, Tallu Schuyler Quinn
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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In What We Wish Were True, Quinn achingly grapples with the possibility of leaving behind the husband and children she adores, and what it means to live with a terminal diagnosis and still find meaning. “I think about how my purpose may be the same in death as it continues to be in life—surrendering to the hope that our weaknesses can be made strong, that what is broken can be made whole,” she writes.
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For facing death & living life
- By Georgia on 04-21-22