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How to Be a Badass in a Broken Healthcare System
- Overlooked to Empowered: A Guide for Chronically Ill Patients Who Refuse to Settle
- By: Kristina Kelly
- Narrated by: Kristina Kelly
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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You’re sick, tired, and stuck navigating a healthcare system that feels impossible to crack. The referrals lead nowhere, wait times are endless, and you’re constantly dismissed by doctors who make you feel like it’s all in your head. Meanwhile, you’re battling insurance denials and pondering over lab results with the nagging feeling that you’re alone in this fight. But you don’t have to face your battle alone! Kristina Kelly, a board certified patient advocate, guides you through the chaos with sass, strategy, and empathy.
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How to Be a Badass in a Broken Healthcare System
- Overlooked to Empowered: A Guide for Chronically Ill Patients Who Refuse to Settle
- Narrated by: Kristina Kelly
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2025
- Language: English
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The Flying Death
- Poison, Greed, and Hope in the Amazon
- By: Matt O'Hara
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare...
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The Flying Death
- Poison, Greed, and Hope in the Amazon
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2026
- Language: English
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Radical
- The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
- By: Kate Pickert
- Narrated by: Kate Pickert
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer. As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the...
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Radical
- The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
- Narrated by: Kate Pickert
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2019
- Language: English
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These Vital Signs
- A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets
- By: Sayed Tabatabai
- Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems. In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating...
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A most beautiful read
- By LYNNEF on 08-06-2023
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These Vital Signs
- A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets
- Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2023
- Language: English
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within
- A Turbulent History of Blood
- By: Dhun Sethna
- Narrated by: Chinua Hawk
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen...
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within
- A Turbulent History of Blood
- Narrated by: Chinua Hawk
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Immune Mystery
- A Doctor's Impassioned Quest to Solve the Puzzle of Autoimmune Disease
- By: Dr. Anita Kåss, Jørgen Jelstad, Alison McCullough - translator
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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The Immune Mystery follows doctor and researcher Anita Kåss' quest to solve the autoimmune puzzle, beginning with the premature death of her mother, who developed rheumatoid arthritis shortly after giving birth to Anita. As a child, Anita vowed to study the illness and one day find a cure. Becoming a respected doctor and researcher, Anita devoted herself to studying autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. A compelling blend of incredible determination and cutting-edge science, this book changes the way we think about autoimmune diseases.
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The Immune Mystery
- A Doctor's Impassioned Quest to Solve the Puzzle of Autoimmune Disease
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-02-2022
- Language: English
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The Doctor Will See You Now
- Essays on the Changing Practice of Medicine
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is "low T" an actual disease? This book will examine these questions and more you've always wondered about in a collection of 50 essays on the medicine. The Doctor Will See You Now is a quirky and eclectic collection of short essays that explore evolving patient-physician relationship and reporting on medicine; famous doctors and notorious patients; surprising hospital practices and the future of healthcare; medical research, ethics, drugs, and money; and the brave new world of neurology.
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The Doctor Will See You Now
- Essays on the Changing Practice of Medicine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2018
- Language: English
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The Healing Imperative
- The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It
- By: Mike Aquilina
- Narrated by: Mike Aquilina
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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When Jesus sent 70 disciples on ahead of him, part of their mission was to heal the sick. In fact, they were supposed to heal the sick before they preached the Gospel. Best-selling author Mike Aquilina calls this command the healing imperative. And it's an imperative that ushered in the world of modern medicine. In The Healing Imperative: The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It, Aquilina reconstructs the fascinating history of a uniquely Christian institution: the hospital.
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The Healing Imperative
- The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It
- Narrated by: Mike Aquilina
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2018
- Language: English
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Amazing Medical People
- A2-B1
- By: F. H. Cornish, Fiona MacKenzie
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’ Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to...
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Amazing Medical People
- A2-B1
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2017
- Language: English
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Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
- American Warrior Series
- By: Paul A. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next 34 months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment. He was uncomfortable, struck by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife.
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Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
- American Warrior Series
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Series: American Warriors Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2016
- Language: English
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Heart in the Right Place
- A Memoir
- By: Carolyn Jourdan
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days.
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Heart in the Right Place
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2008
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
- By: Fred D. Gray
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years - even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis - these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease.
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A very good historical account
- By Anonymous on 13-02-2022
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-01-2021
- Language: English
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Cold War Resistance
- The International Struggle over Antibiotics
- By: Marc Landas
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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In June 1941, a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity - penicillin - and the knowledge that it would change history. Author Marc Landas uncovers the dark history behind the discovery, production, and distribution of penicillin and other antibiotics.
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Cold War Resistance
- The International Struggle over Antibiotics
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-01-2021
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate
- The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
- By: David K. Randall
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin - a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong's tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed 10 million lives worldwide.
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Black Death at the Golden Gate
- The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2019
- Language: English
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Epidemics
- Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
- By: Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other", and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures.
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Epidemics
- Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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Front Line Nurse
- An emotional first world war saga full of hope
- By: Rosie James
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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In the Great War, every act of courage counted… Angelina Green never knew her mother, who left her in a cardboard box by the East London docks on a freezing November night when she was a tiny baby. Saved by a local orphanage, she knows she owes her life to the kindness of others. And she’s...
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Front Line Nurse
- An emotional first world war saga full of hope
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-08-2019
- Language: English
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Am I Normal?
- The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)
- By: Sarah Chaney
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Before the nineteenth century, the term normal was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was a term used in maths, for right angles. People weren't normal; triangles were. But from the 1830s, this branch of science really took off across Europe and North America, with a proliferation of IQ tests, sex studies, a census of hallucinations—even a UK beauty map. This audiobook tells the surprising history how the very notion of the normal came about, how it shaped us all, often while entrenching oppressive values.
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Am I Normal?
- The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2022
- Language: English
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Warp Speed
- Inside the Operation That Beat COVID, the Critics, and the Odds
- By: Paul Mango
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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The prior record for vaccine development and distribution was approximately four-and-a-half years. Operation Warp Speed got the COVID-19 vaccine to the American people in less than ten months. Operation Warp Speed did not happen by accident. It was the result of exceptional leadership, explicit strategy, and unprecedented teamwork. Author Paul Mango, one of the key leaders of Operation Warp Speed and the former deputy chief of US Health and Human Services, chronicles the challenges of developing the vaccine.
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Warp Speed
- Inside the Operation That Beat COVID, the Critics, and the Odds
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- By: Arthur Allen
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2014
- Language: English
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The Intermediaries
- A Weimar Story
- By: Brandy Schillace
- Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Through its unforgettable characters and immersive storytelling, The Intermediaries charts the relationships between nascent sexual science, queer civil rights, and the fight against fascism. It tells riveting stories of LGBTQ pioneers and offers a cautionary tale in the face of today's oppressive anti-trans legislation.
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The Intermediaries
- A Weimar Story
- Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2025
- Language: English
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