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When she was 18, she joined the army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this
- De N. Thomas en 02-13-20
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A Seaside Practice
- Tales of a Scottish Country Doctor
- De: Dr Tom Smith
- Narrado por: Dr Tom Smith
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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Heartwarming and gloriously eccentric, Dr Tom's stories capture the beauty of the Lowlands, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants and the richly rewarding experiences of life as a Scottish country doctor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging Memoir
- De Jean en 10-16-17
De: Dr Tom Smith
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White Hot Light
- Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine
- De: Frank Huyler
- Narrado por: Gary Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic. Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenches—this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor’s edge between life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Better than The Blood of Strangers
- De Elizabeth Darcy en 10-14-20
De: Frank Huyler
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Heartwood
- The Art of Living with the End in Mind
- De: Barbara Becker
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die? With a keen eye toward that which makes life worth living, interfaith minister, mom, and perpetual seeker Barbara Becker recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The author’s compassion
- De Amazon Customer en 04-16-24
De: Barbara Becker
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Healing Hearts
- A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
- De: Kathy Magliato
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group - those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a wife and mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Healing Hearts
- De Jean en 01-14-12
De: Kathy Magliato
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- The Path to a Better Way of Death
- De: Katy Butler
- Narrado por: Katy Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non - life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A better way to narrate a book about death?
- De MAUREEN en 10-21-13
De: Katy Butler
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When Breath Becomes Air
- De: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28,922
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25,312
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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Your Heart, My Hands
- An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons
- De: Arun K. Singh MD, John Hanc - contributor, Delos Cosgrove MD - foreword
- Narrado por: Shridhar Solanki
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a 20-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream. Faced with an entirely new culture, racism, and the lasting effects of disabling childhood injuries, through hard work and perseverance he overcame all odds. Now having performed over 15,000 open-heart surgeries, more than nearly every surgeon in history, Dr. Singh reflects on his most memorable patients and his incredible personal life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable!
- De Stacey en 12-01-22
De: Arun K. Singh MD, y otros
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Happening
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep the child. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist and ended up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly died. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking
- De Lynn Thompson en 05-19-23
De: Annie Ernaux
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An Irish Country Doctor
- A Novel
- De: Patrick Taylor
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,851
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,852
Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree and little else in the way of worldly possessions, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice. At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Something's Missing ... But It's Not the "F Bomb"!
- De Bookworm en 09-06-13
De: Patrick Taylor
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Smile
- The Story of a Face
- De: Sarah Ruhl
- Narrado por: Sarah Ruhl
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that 90 percent of Bell’s palsy patients experience a full recovery—like Ruhl’s own mother. But Sarah is in the unlucky ten percent. And for a woman, wife, mother, and artist working in theater, the paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior brings significant and specific challenges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Synkinesis: I am there
- De Elizabeth Principi en 11-04-21
De: Sarah Ruhl
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God's Hotel
- A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- De: Victoria Sweet
- Narrado por: Victoria Sweet
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De kayla solomon en 04-08-17
De: Victoria Sweet
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Do No Harm
- Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
- De: Henry Marsh
- Narrado por: Jim Barclay
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,437
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,436
With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Uneven
- De Scott en 06-02-15
De: Henry Marsh
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American Baby
- A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
- De: Gabrielle Glaser
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur, Gabrielle Glaser, Margaret Katz
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 171
The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I felt the love of my birth mom...
- De Mary H. en 02-03-21
De: Gabrielle Glaser
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Doctored
- The Disillusionment of an American Physician
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Sandeep Jauhar, an attending cardiologist, accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade's worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights. Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Doctors' morale is low and getting lower.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frank, inside perspective on the follies of unintended consequences in medical reform
- De Jared T Wilsey en 02-25-18
De: Sandeep Jauhar
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Sometimes People Die
- De: Simon Stephenson
- Narrado por: Greg Miller Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, overworked staff and underfunded wards, a more insidious secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. And a murderer may be lurking in plain sight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you’re going to read this, the audio narration makes it
- De Abigail Segal en 12-25-22
De: Simon Stephenson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mastering the Knife
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- Robert Meguid
- 06-30-21
Outstanding story about a man’s struggles with life and medical school
Michael Meguid has written a fantastic companion to his first book, “roots and branches“. The second book addresses his struggles with identity while going through medical school in a culture foreign to his origin. The story is masterfully written and immediately relatable. David Sweeney-Bear’s narration is enjoyable to listen to. I highly recommend this to anyone in medicine or who has faced identity challenges.
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