Medical Memoirs

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    • Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
    • By: Barbara Butcher
    • Narrated by: Barbara Butcher
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher shares a “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations.

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    • A Little Book of Big Things Nursing School Forgot to Teach You
    • By: Sonja Schwartzbach BSN RN CCRN
    • Narrated by: Sonja Schwartzbach
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • Whether you're a new nurse or a veteran member of the clan, the nursing learning curve is a vast one. Part how-to guide with a touch of memoir thrown in, take the time to laugh and cry with an author who says what everyone else in the field is thinking....

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    • A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
    • By: Cassandra Alexander
    • Narrated by: Dolly Payne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down—and how 2021 is going....

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    • On Vision Lost and Found
    • By: Frank Bruni
    • Narrated by: Frank Bruni
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 597 ratings
    • One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience....

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    • True Stories of a Life in Medicine
    • By: Walter M. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics....

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    • The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
    • By: Lynda Van Devanter
    • Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • After high school Lynda Van Devanter attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly....

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    • A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit
    • By: Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,896 ratings
    • Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. With this call to arms, Charlie Beckwith revolutionized American armed combat....

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    • By: Philip Allen Green MD
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • In this collection of short stories, Dr. Green takes the listener inside the hidden emotional landscape of emergency medicine....

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    • The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
    • By: Naoki Higashida
    • Narrated by: Tom Picasso
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,793 ratings
    • You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....

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    • The Complete Story
    • By: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"....

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    • A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer…One Patient at a Time
    • By: David I. Levy MD, Joel Kilpatrick - contributor
    • Narrated by: Larry Wayne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 921 ratings
    • Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery....

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    • Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
    • By: Lisa Sanders
    • Narrated by: Lisa Sanders
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 764 ratings
    • A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis", the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D....

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    • Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
    • By: Eric Manheimer
    • Narrated by: Eric Manheimer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 505 ratings
    • Twelve Patients is a memoir from the medical director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of 12 very different patients to illustrate larger societal issues....

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    • My Investigations at America’s Most Infamous Crime Scenes
    • By: Emily Craig PhD
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history. In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent as a bone hunter....

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    • Life and Death in a Modern Hospital
    • By: Seamus O'Mahony
    • Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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 that all of us will visit at some point....

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    • The Making of a Surgeon
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • In his acclaimed first memoir, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs takes listeners from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school....

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    • A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
    • By: Jennifer L. Gaudiani MD CEDS FAED
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • Sick Enough offers patients, their families, and clinicians a comprehensive, accessible review of the medical issues that arise from eating disorders by bringing relatable case presentations and a scientifically sound, engaging style to the topic....

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    • A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery
    • By: David Poses
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth....

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    • Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....

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