-
Under the Skin
- A Dermatologist's Fight to Save the NHS
- Narrated by: Alex Anstey
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Prime members: New to Audible?Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Under the Skin
Buy for $24.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
The Power of Moments
- Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
- By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,633
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,939
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,918
While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember 20 years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children?
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Easy to create your own defining moments
- By A. Yoshida on 12-15-17
By: Chip Heath, and others
-
A Plague upon Our House
- My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America
- By: Scott W. Atlas MD
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,076
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 975
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 971
When Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos, politically motivated lies, and cynical media manipulation. Numerous myths and distortions surround the Trump Administration’s handling of the crisis, and many pressing questions remain unanswered.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Love it- hate it!
- By Chuck Weinberg on 12-01-21
-
NeuroTribes
- The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- By: Steve Silberman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,561
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,249
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,241
What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The long hard road to proper identity on the Autistic spectrum.
- By Lorijorn on 10-29-15
By: Steve Silberman
-
Great at Work
- How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More
- By: Morten Hansen
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,237
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,028
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,022
Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his "Seven Work Smarter Practices" that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance. Each of Hansen's seven practices is highlighted by inspiring stories from individuals in his comprehensive study.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Do less but obsess
- By A. Yoshida on 10-24-18
By: Morten Hansen
-
Ask More
- The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change
- By: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer - foreword
- Narrated by: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 779
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 702
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 697
What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way. Emmy-award-winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno aims to change that with Ask More.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Part story part informational
- By TCfla on 08-01-17
By: Frank Sesno, and others
-
The War on Ivermectin
- The Medicine That Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic
- By: Pierre Kory
- Narrated by: Troy Wolfe
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 102
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 94
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 94
Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. The drug has been derided and declared useless. Doctors have earnestly recorded pleas asking those afflicted with COVID-19 not to take the drug. But why? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory, the co-founder of an expert group of physicians, and his plight to alert the world of his group's identification of ivermectin as a highly effective, life-saving, widely available generic medicine with an obvious ability to end the global pandemic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent Overview of this Tragic Time
- By Mrs MM on 07-01-23
By: Pierre Kory
-
The Power of Moments
- Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
- By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,633
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,939
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,918
While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember 20 years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children?
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Easy to create your own defining moments
- By A. Yoshida on 12-15-17
By: Chip Heath, and others
-
A Plague upon Our House
- My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America
- By: Scott W. Atlas MD
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,076
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 975
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 971
When Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos, politically motivated lies, and cynical media manipulation. Numerous myths and distortions surround the Trump Administration’s handling of the crisis, and many pressing questions remain unanswered.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Love it- hate it!
- By Chuck Weinberg on 12-01-21
-
NeuroTribes
- The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- By: Steve Silberman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,561
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,249
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,241
What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The long hard road to proper identity on the Autistic spectrum.
- By Lorijorn on 10-29-15
By: Steve Silberman
-
Great at Work
- How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More
- By: Morten Hansen
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,237
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,028
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,022
Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his "Seven Work Smarter Practices" that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance. Each of Hansen's seven practices is highlighted by inspiring stories from individuals in his comprehensive study.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Do less but obsess
- By A. Yoshida on 10-24-18
By: Morten Hansen
-
Ask More
- The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change
- By: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer - foreword
- Narrated by: Frank Sesno, Wolf Blitzer
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 779
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 702
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 697
What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way. Emmy-award-winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno aims to change that with Ask More.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Part story part informational
- By TCfla on 08-01-17
By: Frank Sesno, and others
-
The War on Ivermectin
- The Medicine That Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic
- By: Pierre Kory
- Narrated by: Troy Wolfe
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 102
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 94
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 94
Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. The drug has been derided and declared useless. Doctors have earnestly recorded pleas asking those afflicted with COVID-19 not to take the drug. But why? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory, the co-founder of an expert group of physicians, and his plight to alert the world of his group's identification of ivermectin as a highly effective, life-saving, widely available generic medicine with an obvious ability to end the global pandemic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent Overview of this Tragic Time
- By Mrs MM on 07-01-23
By: Pierre Kory
-
What the Eyes Don't See
- A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
- By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 720
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 622
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 620
Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Eye Opening
- By Shatan ~Book Attic Confessions on 08-07-18
-
If I Betray These Words
- Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
- By: Wendy Dean, Simon Talbot
- Narrated by: Wendy Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 27
Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. If I Betray These Words confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury—what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who’s fighting back against it. We need better healthcare—for patients and for the workforce. It’s time to act.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Dust bowl
- By Doc on 04-12-23
By: Wendy Dean, and others
-
Scaling Up Excellence
- Getting to More Without Settling for Less
- By: Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 460
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 388
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 381
In Scaling Up Excellence, best-selling author Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: scaling up further, faster, and more effectively as a program or an organization creates a larger footprint. Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the last decade to uncovering what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, to help spread them, and to keep recharging organizations with ever-better work practices.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Not exactly the book I was hoping for
- By Gabriel Afana on 06-19-18
By: Robert I. Sutton, and others
-
Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 269
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 238
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 240
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.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- By Elaine on 08-04-17
By: Mary Otto
-
Hood
- Trailblazer of the Genomics Age
- By: Luke Timmerman, David Baltimore
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Lee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn't see before and do things they hadn't dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day, setting in motion a revolution that is personalizing medicine. Hood, a son of the American West, was an unlikely candidate to transform biology. But with ferocious drive, he led a team at Caltech that developed the automated DNA sequencer, the tool that paved the way for the Human Genome Project.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
A Revealing Biography
- By Jean on 07-27-17
By: Luke Timmerman, and others
-
The Big Picture
- Getting Perspective on What's Really Important
- By: Ben Carson MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Every day when Dr. Carson went to work as a surgeon, he had to make life-and-death decisions. For that reason, and because so many of the people and families he worked with had suddenly been forced to reconsider what's really important in life, he's spent a lot of his own time searching for perspective.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Religious rubbish
- By Amazon Customer on 02-08-17
By: Ben Carson MD
-
Epic Measures
- One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- By: Jeremy N. Smith
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fabulously insightful read!
- By Dr. Jack E. Fincham on 10-08-15
By: Jeremy N. Smith
-
Healing Children
- A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
- By: Kurt Newman M.D.
- Narrated by: Kurt Newman M.D.
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able to withstand acute stress than adults'. In this inspiring memoir, Dr. Kurt Newman draws from his long experience as a pediatric surgeon working at one of our nation's top children's hospitals to make the case that children are more than miniature adults.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A remarkable account from the heroic halls of a pioneering children’s hospital
- By K. Robb on 12-21-23
By: Kurt Newman M.D.
-
Extreme Measures
- Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
- By: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
- Narrated by: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 127
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 108
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 108
Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care - to become an ICU physician - and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first code she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice. Extreme Measures charts Zitter's journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming another - a doctor who prioritizes the patient's values and preferences.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Brilliant & eye-opening
- By Bob Kelley on 03-16-17
-
Polio
- An American Story
- By: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 587
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 418
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 417
This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wonderful
- By Patricia B Tripoli on 07-22-08
-
Infinite Vision
- How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion
- By: Pavithra K. Mehta, Suchitra Shenoy
- Narrated by: Pavithra K. Mehta
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
When a crippling disease shattered his lifelong ambition, Dr. Venkataswamy (better known as Dr. V) chose an impossible new dream: to cure the world of blindness. The tiny clinic he founded in India defied conventional business logic and is now the largest provider of eye care on the planet. At Aravind, patients choose whether to pay or not. Millions are treated for free, yet the organization remains stunningly self-reliant. Serving everyone from penniless farmers to the president, it delivers world-class outcomes.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Extremely enlightening
- By Yvette J. on 01-04-18
By: Pavithra K. Mehta, and others
-
The Digital Doctor
- Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
- By: Robert Wachter
- Narrated by: Benjamin Wachter
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 309
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 256
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 253
While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, health care has finally gone digital.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Important
- By N. Martin on 04-15-15
By: Robert Wachter
Publisher's summary
In Under the Skin, Anstey explains why these ten individuals are so important, highlighting how their mammoth contributions still resonate in the post-COVID era. And, ultimately, how these 10 forebearers helped to create an institution that defines Britain to this day. This insider's story of the realities of frontline NHS clinical services during 10 years of underfunding takes the listener on a fast-moving and emotional journey of discovery, from despondency to hope, toward a better understanding of the NHS, and emphasizes the need to nurture and support those who dedicate lives to this great institution.
Related to this topic
-
Unaccountable
- What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
- By: Marty Makary
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 235
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 204
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 206
Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's best-selling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last 10 years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Everyone should read this book.
- By Julie on 06-11-16
By: Marty Makary
-
Epic Measures
- One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- By: Jeremy N. Smith
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fabulously insightful read!
- By Dr. Jack E. Fincham on 10-08-15
By: Jeremy N. Smith
-
Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 269
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 238
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 240
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.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- By Elaine on 08-04-17
By: Mary Otto
-
To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- By: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
-
Story4.5 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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Resist the Impoverishment of Aspiration
- By Susie on 05-14-13
By: Paul Farmer, and others
-
Silent Invasion
- The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late
- By: Deborah Birx
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 113
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx—a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations—was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force and assist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she’d been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what she saw happening in public—from the apparent lack of urgency at the White House to the routine downplaying of the risks to Americans.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great insight into Public Health
- By Ann-Karen Weller on 05-09-22
By: Deborah Birx
-
Polio
- An American Story
- By: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 587
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 418
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 417
This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wonderful
- By Patricia B Tripoli on 07-22-08
-
Unaccountable
- What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
- By: Marty Makary
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 235
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 204
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 206
Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's best-selling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last 10 years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Everyone should read this book.
- By Julie on 06-11-16
By: Marty Makary
-
Epic Measures
- One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- By: Jeremy N. Smith
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fabulously insightful read!
- By Dr. Jack E. Fincham on 10-08-15
By: Jeremy N. Smith
-
Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- By: Mary Otto
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 269
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 238
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 240
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.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- By Elaine on 08-04-17
By: Mary Otto
-
To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- By: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
-
Story4.5 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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Resist the Impoverishment of Aspiration
- By Susie on 05-14-13
By: Paul Farmer, and others
-
Silent Invasion
- The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late
- By: Deborah Birx
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 113
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx—a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations—was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force and assist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she’d been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what she saw happening in public—from the apparent lack of urgency at the White House to the routine downplaying of the risks to Americans.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great insight into Public Health
- By Ann-Karen Weller on 05-09-22
By: Deborah Birx
-
Polio
- An American Story
- By: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 587
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 418
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 417
This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wonderful
- By Patricia B Tripoli on 07-22-08
-
Changing the Way We Die
- Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement
- By: Sheila Himmel, Fran Smith
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
-
Story4.5 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.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Sadly, not very engaging.
- By Debra S. Long on 06-16-18
By: Sheila Himmel, and others
-
The Problem of Alzheimer's
- How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
- By: Jason Karlawish
- Narrated by: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 35
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
-
Story5 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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A must read
- By kara kuntz on 05-20-21
By: Jason Karlawish
-
If I Betray These Words
- Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
- By: Wendy Dean, Simon Talbot
- Narrated by: Wendy Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 27
Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. If I Betray These Words confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury—what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who’s fighting back against it. We need better healthcare—for patients and for the workforce. It’s time to act.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Dust bowl
- By Doc on 04-12-23
By: Wendy Dean, and others
-
A Bittersweet Season
- Caring for Our Aging Parents - And Ourselves
- By: Jane Gross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
-
Story4.5 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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Exceptional, thought-provoking, liberating!
- By Anne on 08-10-11
By: Jane Gross
-
The Desperate Hours
- One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
- By: Marie Brenner
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
-
Story4.5 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.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Way too much politics
- By Josh on 07-18-22
By: Marie Brenner
-
How to Survive a Plague
- The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
- By: David France
- Narrated by: Rory O'Malley
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 320
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 297
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 296
A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Read This Book!
- By Kay M Hawklee on 05-30-17
By: David France
-
The Birth of the Pill
- How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
- By: Jonathan Eig
- Narrated by: Gayle Hendrix
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 253
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 227
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 226
We know it simply as "the pill", yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Overall Excellent Read
- By Rachel on 04-02-22
By: Jonathan Eig
-
Hood
- Trailblazer of the Genomics Age
- By: Luke Timmerman, David Baltimore
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Lee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn't see before and do things they hadn't dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day, setting in motion a revolution that is personalizing medicine. Hood, a son of the American West, was an unlikely candidate to transform biology. But with ferocious drive, he led a team at Caltech that developed the automated DNA sequencer, the tool that paved the way for the Human Genome Project.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
A Revealing Biography
- By Jean on 07-27-17
By: Luke Timmerman, and others
-
How Full Is Your Bucket? Anniversary Edition
- By: Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Tom Rath, Jeff Cummings - preface foreword
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 579
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 472
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 470
Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket - already familiar to thousands of people - How Full Is Your Bucket? shows how even the smallest interactions we have with others every day profoundly affect our relationships, productivity, health and longevity. Coauthor Donald O. Clifton studied the effects of positive and negative emotions for half a century, and he and his colleagues interviewed millions of people around the world.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
To much promotional information
- By Elizabeth on 12-22-20
By: Tom Rath, and others
-
Black Man in a White Coat
- A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
- By: Damon Tweedy M.D.
- Narrated by: Corey Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 965
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 864
-
Story4.5 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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely eye opening!
- By Kelene on 02-23-16
-
Haiti After the Earthquake
- By: Paul Farmer
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Edoardo Ballerini, Edwidge Danticat
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 85
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 70
On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, who had worked in the country for nearly thirty years treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, had just begun to work on an extensive development plan to improve living conditions in Haiti.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
If you read one book about Haiti make it this one
- By Bryan on 06-07-12
By: Paul Farmer
-
How Doctors Think
- By: Jerome Groopman M.D.
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 742
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 386
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Disappointing
- By Audiophile on 05-13-07