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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s moving narrative of a group of patient advocates who are revolutionizing the way medical research is conducted.
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Reconciling different views of science took work. The parents, doctors, and researchers didn't always agree—among themselves or with each other. But together they endeavored to accelerate the development of new drugs. The parents became citizen scientists, identifying promising new treatments and helping devise experiments. They recorded data about the children and co-authored scientific papers sharing findings. They engaged directly with the FDA at each step of the drug approval process. Along the way, they advanced the radical idea that science must belong to us all.
Amy Dockser Marcus shows what happens when a community joins forces with doctors and researchers to try to save children’s lives. Their extraordinary social experiment reveals new pathways for treating disease and conducting research. Science may be forever changed.
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“An absorbing narrative…Through details of perseverance, courage, and grace, frustration is ultimately eclipsed in We the Scientists by another theme. It is the name for the NIH drug discovery robots proposed by one of the parents: Hope.” —Science
“This book illuminates the painful tension between the extended time frames of medical research and the life spans of those hoping for a cure. . . . Marcus shows how parents, by imparting a sense of urgency to the search for a cure, have helped future generations of children even as they could not save their own.” —The New Yorker
“The story of a painful but inspiring search for a cure for a fatal disease.…A moving argument for a more focused, humane, and efficient system for conducting medical research.” —Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW)
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Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world’s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn’t muster an effective response. It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization.
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Wow! Do not miss this one.
- De Jacob en 11-18-21
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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
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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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Absolutely eye opening!
- De Kelene en 02-23-16
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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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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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Way too much politics
- De Josh en 07-18-22
De: Marie Brenner
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Beating Back the Devil
- De: Maryn McKenna
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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The universal instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease. These doctors run toward it. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than 24 hours before they are dispatched. They are told only their country of destination and the epidemic they will tackle when they get there.
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Interesting Stuff - Only criticism is pacing
- De Tim en 07-23-05
De: Maryn McKenna
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Doctored
- The Disillusionment of an American Physician
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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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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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 Family Gene
- A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
- De: Joselin Linder
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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When Joselin Linder was in her 20s, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of - her father's.
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Splendid Solution
- Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
- De: Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation. Now, at the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, and as humanity is tantalizingly close to eradicating polio worldwide, comes this unforgettable chronicle. Salk's work was an unparalleled achievement, and it makes for a magnificent listen.
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Excellent book
- De Tim en 08-10-06
De: Jeffrey Kluger
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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
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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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Remarkable!
- De Stacey en 12-01-22
De: Arun K. Singh MD, y otros
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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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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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Great read
- De kayla solomon en 04-08-17
De: Victoria Sweet
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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
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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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Exceptional, thought-provoking, liberating!
- De Anne en 08-10-11
De: Jane Gross
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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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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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Phenomenal book!
- De A. Potter en 01-16-16
De: Paul Kalanithi, y otros
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One Doctor
- Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
- De: Brendan Reilly
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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An epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today.
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Simply Brilliant
- De Jan en 06-20-14
De: Brendan Reilly
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Epic Measures
- One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- De: Jeremy N. Smith
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time - the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: How do we live and die? - and the visionary mastermind behind it.
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Fabulously insightful read!
- De Dr. Jack E. Fincham en 10-08-15
De: Jeremy N. Smith
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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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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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Disappointing
- De Audiophile en 05-13-07
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- De: Mary Otto
- Narrado por: Suehyla El'Attar
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.
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Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- De Elaine en 08-04-17
De: Mary Otto
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A Kid's Science Book FOR ADULTS!!
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The River of Consciousness
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A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.
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Important but Less Interesting
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Gory Details
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Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality. Blending humor and journalism in the tradition of Mary Roach, acclaimed science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bodies and our universe.
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Feels like old school Discovery channel
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DNA
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James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, and agricultural chemistry as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and cancer research. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative exploration of DNA's impact on our society and our world.
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Excellent review of Genetics Research
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The Crime Book
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De: DK, y otros
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- Kendall G
- 03-28-23
Changes to The Status Quo
I like nearly anything to do with medicine, that’s the industry I work in. So there’s my bias. Now, this book is really about David & Goliath, metaphorically. It’s about what parents will do for their children and then how that live spreads to helping others. Good, healthy, fun read
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- Future
- 02-15-23
A scientist reviewer
Superbly done with a vision we need. Marcus gives the human perspective on the most human of endeavors: helping one another. Her science is spot on, her compassion is the driving force. Read it.
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