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Bestsellers
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19....
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Could be shorter
- By Evan Snow on 01-03-22
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Blind Spots
- When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
- By: Marty Makary MD
- Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem.
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Outstanding and arguably daring
- By Scott J. Jones MD on 10-08-24
By: Marty Makary MD
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Medical Apartheid
- The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- By: Harriet A. Washington
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....
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Sobering... but necessary.
- By Dr. Pepper on 10-27-16
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- By Kate on 06-04-15
By: Anne Fadiman
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The AI Revolution in Medicine
- GPT-4 and Beyond
- By: Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, Isaac Kohane
- Narrated by: J. Hunter Ackerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Just months ago, millions of people were stunned by ChatGPT's amazing abilities–and its bizarre hallucinations. But that was 2022. GPT-4 is now here, with smarter, more accurate, and deeper technical knowledge....
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Self-Serving Junk
- By Memphis Matt on 09-11-23
By: Peter Lee, and others
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Medical Bondage
- Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....
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Sadly, very little has changed.
- By AuthorAnnaBella on 08-25-20
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19....
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Could be shorter
- By Evan Snow on 01-03-22
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Blind Spots
- When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
- By: Marty Makary MD
- Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem.
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Outstanding and arguably daring
- By Scott J. Jones MD on 10-08-24
By: Marty Makary MD
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Medical Apartheid
- The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- By: Harriet A. Washington
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....
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Sobering... but necessary.
- By Dr. Pepper on 10-27-16
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- By Kate on 06-04-15
By: Anne Fadiman
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The AI Revolution in Medicine
- GPT-4 and Beyond
- By: Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, Isaac Kohane
- Narrated by: J. Hunter Ackerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Just months ago, millions of people were stunned by ChatGPT's amazing abilities–and its bizarre hallucinations. But that was 2022. GPT-4 is now here, with smarter, more accurate, and deeper technical knowledge....
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Self-Serving Junk
- By Memphis Matt on 09-11-23
By: Peter Lee, and others
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Medical Bondage
- Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....
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Sadly, very little has changed.
- By AuthorAnnaBella on 08-25-20
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What It Means to Be Human
- The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
- By: O. Carter Snead
- Narrated by: Asa Siegel
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to be autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose....
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Outstanding Primer on Bioethics
- By Homestead Dad on 10-15-24
By: O. Carter Snead
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ChatGPT, MD
- How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine
- By: Robert Pearl
- Narrated by: Robert Pearl MD
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Doctors and patients have lost control of American medicine. Generative AI can put the power back in their hands, save millions of lives, and restore the doctor-patient relationship.
By: Robert Pearl
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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
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In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care....
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Brilliant & eye-opening
- By Bob Kelley on 03-16-17
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The Laws of Medicine
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The Laws of Medicine is a critical book not just for those in the medical profession but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being are being treated....
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Insightful, sincere and succinct. Not Mukherjee's best.
- By Saurav on 12-20-15
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The People's Hospital
- Hope and Peril in American Medicine
- By: Ricardo Nuila MD
- Narrated by: Ricardo Nuila MD
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians....
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Ben Taub Nurse
- By Patricia Gonzales on 05-11-23
By: Ricardo Nuila MD
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Real AIDS Epidemic
- How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All
- By: Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom - foreword
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong....
By: Rebecca V. Culshaw, and others
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Mercies in Disguise
- A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
- By: Gina Kolata
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw....
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Sappy
- By Amazon Customer on 11-10-22
By: Gina Kolata
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice
- Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
- By: Carl Elliott
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
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More than just the facts
- By Sarah F. on 06-29-24
By: Carl Elliott
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Mengele and Nazi Doctors During the Third Reich
- Children’s Experiments and the Racial Utopia for Opportunity and Careerism
- By: Joshua Itzkowitz
- Narrated by: Jack Stonemason
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The experiments conducted during World War II provide some of the most extreme examples in breaches of human rights and ethics the world has so far seen. There is no benefit in considering the Nazi experiments as “other” or irrelevant....
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Information is good
- By KPPP on 07-07-21
By: Joshua Itzkowitz
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Mad in America
- Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery....
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Mental Illness in America - An American Tragedy
- By Bob G on 11-28-24
By: Robert Whitaker
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Who Says You're Dead?
- Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
- By: Jacob M. Appel MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Drawing upon the author's two decades teaching medical ethics, as well as his work as a practicing psychiatrist, this profound and addictive little book offers up challenging ethical dilemmas and asks listeners, What would you do? Listen to find out more....
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Happens everyday
- By janeen dahn on 01-02-21
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Blind Eye
- By: James B. Stewart
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Abridged
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No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer....
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Abridgement
- By E O on 03-10-10
By: James B. Stewart
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Ante todo no hagas daño [Do No Harm]
- By: Henry Marsh, Patricia Antón de Vez Ayala-Duarte - translator
- Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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El eminente neurocirujano británico Henry Marsh expone a ojos del mundo la esencia de una de las especialidades médicas más difíciles, delicadas y fascinantes que existen....
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Increíble !!
- By DENISE TALBOT on 01-19-25
By: Henry Marsh, and others
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Still Not Safe
- Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
- By: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization....
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Among the best healthcare books I’ve read
- By Robert on 07-02-23
By: Robert L. Wears, and others
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Undercover Epicenter Nurse
- How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital
- By: Erin Marie Olszewski BSN RN, J. B. Handley - preface
- Narrated by: Shirl Rae
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Thank YOU for your bravery!
- By stanhomdc on 12-28-20
By: Erin Marie Olszewski BSN RN, and others
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Bad Pharma
- How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
- By: Ben Goldacre
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed....
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A must read for health professionals
- By zerodynamics on 03-01-13
By: Ben Goldacre
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The Wounded Storyteller (Second Edition)
- Body, Illness, and Ethics
- By: Arthur Frank
- Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. In this new edition, Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written....
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Expressing Negative Reality
- By brendaj on 02-01-22
By: Arthur Frank
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Losing Our Dignity
- How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality
- By: Charles C. Camosy
- Narrated by: Charles C. Camosy
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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There is perhaps no more important value than fundamental human equality. And yet, despite large percentages of people affirming the value, the resources available to explain and defend the basis for such equality are few and far between....
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Well written book that is also very-well read.
- By Trish P on 10-04-21
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America....
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Excellent 2023 update on genetics
- By Roy on 01-11-25
By: Adam Rutherford
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Med Spa Mayhem
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Secrets of the Aesthetic Industry
- By: Kate Dee
- Narrated by: Ashley Mauerhofer
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Med Spa Mayhem is a compelling and must-read book that delves deep into the often unforeseen dangers lurking within the medical spa industry.
By: Kate Dee
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No More Tears
- The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
- By: Gardiner Harris
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist.
By: Gardiner Harris
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What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
- By: Danielle Ofri MD
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses....
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Newbie review follows. Be ware
- By Dennis Adler on 09-15-17
By: Danielle Ofri MD
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Lightning Flowers
- My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
- By: Katherine E. Standefer
- Narrated by: Katherine E. Standefer
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator....
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Eye opening and heart wrenching
- By FSRasheed on 11-19-20
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The Case Against Perfection
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature....
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The author made his case considering objections
- By Philippe on 01-30-24