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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal book!
- De A. Potter en 01-16-16
De: Paul Kalanithi, y otros
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Black Man in a White Coat
- A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
- De: Damon Tweedy M.D.
- Narrado por: Corey Allen
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 963
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 862
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 865
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with racial identity, bias, and the unique health problems of Black Americans. When Damon Tweedy first enters the halls of Duke University Medical School on a full scholarship, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely eye opening!
- De Kelene en 02-23-16
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Changing the Way We Die
- Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement
- De: Sheila Himmel, Fran Smith
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care - nearly 44 percent of all deaths - and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sadly, not very engaging.
- De Debra S. Long en 06-16-18
De: Sheila Himmel, y otros
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Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor
- A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating and Making It Work!
- De: Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun
- Narrado por: Tim Gunn
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 381
Tim Gunn, America's favorite reality TV cohost, is known for his kind but firm approach in providing wisdom, guidance, and support to the scores of design hopefuls on Project Runway. Having begun his fashion career as a teacher at Parsons The New School for Design, Tim knows more than a thing or two about mentorship and how to convey invaluable pearls of wisdom in an approachable, accessible manner.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Life lessons for All
- De Trendy en 03-11-16
De: Tim Gunn, y otros
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To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- De: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer's vision in a single, accessible volume.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Resist the Impoverishment of Aspiration
- De Susie en 05-14-13
De: Paul Farmer, y otros
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The Desperate Hours
- One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
- De: Marie Brenner
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. In The Desperate Hours, award-winning journalist Marie Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Way too much politics
- De Josh en 07-18-22
De: Marie Brenner
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Oddly Normal
- One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
- De: John Schwartz
- Narrado por: John Schwartz, Joseph Schwartz
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for the New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: His 13-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and confusion by his fellow students. Hours later, he took an overdose of pills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Effect of Parental Caring
- De Wiliam en 01-16-13
De: John Schwartz
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Brotherhood
- Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
- De: Sanjiv Chopra, Deepak Chopra
- Narrado por: Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: while Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over what he called the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements.
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3 out of 5 stars
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How to Toot Your Horn
- De Kenneth en 07-01-13
De: Sanjiv Chopra, y otros
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Final Exam
- A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
- De: Pauline W. Chen
- Narrado por: Pauline W. Chen
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
When Pauline Chen began medical school 20 years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox: that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her education, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not just about end of life
- De Paul Mullen en 03-25-07
De: Pauline W. Chen
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Sybil Exposed
- The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
- De: Debbie Nathan
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 152
Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No definitive answer, just speculations all around
- De Amy A en 12-30-18
De: Debbie Nathan
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What Teachers Make
- In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
- De: Taylor Mali
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 2 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Former middle school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make - a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Make is Mali's sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to arms about the joys of teaching and why teachers are so vital to America today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- De Anonymous User en 02-16-22
De: Taylor Mali
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The Unspeakable
- And Other Subjects of Discussion
- De: Meghan Daum
- Narrado por: Meghan Daum
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 98
It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- De Erik Hermansen en 11-23-14
De: Meghan Daum
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A Bittersweet Season
- Caring for Our Aging Parents - And Ourselves
- De: Jane Gross
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the rapidly increasing number of adult children responsible for aging parents. Gross deftly weaves the specifics of her personal experience with a comprehensive resource for effectively managing the lives of one's own parents while keeping sanity and strength intact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, thought-provoking, liberating!
- De Anne en 08-10-11
De: Jane Gross
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How to Be Black
- De: Baratunde Thurston
- Narrado por: Baratunde Thurston
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,035
Beyond memoir, this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be the Black Friend" to "How to Be the (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month". This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all Black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny yet insightful!
- De Theodore en 02-15-12
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The Center Cannot Hold
- De: Elyn R. Saks
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,428
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,137
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,143
Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. In The Center Cannot Hold, Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health-care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most can only imagine, Saks reclaimed her life and went on to achieve great success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Schizophrenia Inside Out
- De Pamela Harvey en 07-23-09
De: Elyn R. Saks
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- De: Don Lattin
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 232
It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra "be here now". Andrew Weil, undisputed leader of the holistic medicine revolution. And, of course, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counterculture icon and LSD guru.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- De Gillian Culff en 12-12-19
De: Don Lattin
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Inferno
- A Doctor's Ebola Story
- De: Steven Hatch MD
- Narrado por: Steven Hatch MD
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing.
- De Kirsten Lasley en 06-15-23
De: Steven Hatch MD