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The Ministry of Bodies
- Life and Death in a Modern Hospital
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of work in the 'ministry of bodies', that huge complex where people come to be cured and to die. From unexpected deaths to moral quandaries and bureaucratic disasters, O'Mahony documents life in the halls and wards that all of us will visit at some point in our lives with his characteristic wit and dry and unsentimental intelligence.
Absurd general emails, vain and self-promoting specialists, the relentless parade of self-destructive drinkers and drug users, the comical expectations of baffled patients: this is not a conventional medical memoir, but the collective biography of one of our great modern institutions - the general hospital - through the eyes of a brilliant writer, who happens to be a gifted doctor.
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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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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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How Doctors Think
- De: Jerome Groopman M.D.
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 741
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 386
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within 12 seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong: with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Audiophile en 05-13-07
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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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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 965
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 867
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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The Problem of Alzheimer's
- How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
- De: Jason Karlawish
- Narrado por: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. Sixteen million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their 70s and 80s, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2025. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, The Problem of Alzheimer's traces Alzheimer’s from its beginnings to its recognition as a crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- De kara kuntz en 05-20-21
De: Jason Karlawish
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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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Confessions of a Surgeon
- The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
- De: Paul A. Ruggieri MD
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 256
As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the OR and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and camaraderie that make it exciting.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed the anecdotes!
- De suzanne en 07-31-17
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State of the Heart
- Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
- De: Haider Warraich
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have led to the epidemic of heart disease
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good information, bad organization
- De Conor Cox en 09-03-19
De: Haider Warraich
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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
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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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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 28,928
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25,383
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25,317
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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The Organ Thieves
- The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
- De: Chip Jones
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a White businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not your story to tell
- De Bianca S en 11-22-20
De: Chip Jones
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Heart
- A History
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 566
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 500
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 502
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Insight
- De Ironcharles en 10-27-18
De: Sandeep Jauhar
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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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The Heart Healers
- The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
- De: James Forrester MD
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
At one time heart disease was a death sentence. By the middle of the 20th century, it was killing millions, and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On September 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great review of the landmark achievements in Cardiology.
- De Trauma NP en 12-14-15
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Ministry of Bodies
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- 04-30-21
Poetic
I enjoyed the voice. Listening was more like viewing a series of photographs than reading a single narrative. It was an interesting mixture of humor and grief. I will probably listen to it again. It may have stronger appeal and be more relatable to those us who work in hospitals because many hidden understandings were left unsaid.
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