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    Better

    A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

    by Atul Gawande ...
    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession**The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Letters to a Young Therapist

    by Mary Pipher ...
    Narrated by Eliza Foss ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 54 min

    A bestselling author and gifted healer’s guidance on how therapy can restore us in an increasingly stressful world.**“A wise and compassionate book.” -**Washington PostIn Letters to a Young Therapist, psychologist Mary Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years of clinical practice helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Complications

    A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

    by Atul Gawande ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    ****A new unabridged recording**A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.**Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    病非如此:一位人類學家的母女共病絮語

    by 劉紹華 ...
    Narrated by 劉紹華, 汪世瑋 ...
    Series Audiobook 186 - Mark

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    一個家庭的生命變奏曲,一段疾病與關係的敘事阿茲海默症、癌症,兩個世紀之症同時發生在一個家庭中,患者的人生、家人的未來,該如何面對與承擔?認識老病死苦的生命倫理與合宜應對之道,該是日常教育的一環我想記錄自己和母親的這段生命旅程,儘管片段,但求誌念。記錄是為了母親、自己和家人,且身為醫療人類學者,也希望這段疾病與康復敘事,有助於其他的病人親友理解病中之人,並與之平和相處。──劉紹華二〇一八年七月,人類學家劉紹華和她的母親接連確認罹患「世紀之症」,其母診斷為阿茲海默症初期,而紹華得了癌症。兩人同時生病,對於家人的打擊重大,照護人手嚴重不足,家中混亂了一段相當長的時間,生病的人不好過,沒生病的人也不好過。數年間各種沒想過的生命經驗陸續發生,正面的、負面的都有。不論生病或康復,變壞或變好,都不是跨過一條界線那麼簡單,而是得經歷一段來回反覆的灰色地帶。生病與康復都是一趟旅程,只有走過才知道風景微妙 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Confessions of a Surgeon

    The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors

    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and camaraderie that make it exciting. He uncovers the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Cartas a un joven médico

    Narrated by Hernán Espinoza ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 8 min

    Una obra que conjuga las dos grandes pasiones de Federico Ortíz Quesada: la medicina y la literatura.El Dr. Federico Ortíz Quesada, miembro del Comité de exprofesores del Hospital de Especialidades del Centro Médico Siglo XX, devela a través de 28 cartas la íntima relación entre la reflexión filosófica y el estudio de la medicina...Las cartas literarias han sido un medio privilegiado para que los ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    The Great American Medical Show

    The Good, the Not-So-Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Narrated by Gregory Diehl ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    What happens when a seasoned physician pulls back the curtain on America's health care system?Dr. Bernard M. Patten has lived medicine from every angle: patient, doctor, advocate, and critic. With wit, candor, and unflinching honesty, he takes readers on an eye-opening journey through decades of encounters that reveal both the brilliance and the failures of modern medicine.From the golden age of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    What Cannot Be Undone

    True Stories of a Life in Medicine

    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    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. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    怪奇醫學研究所2:吃土有益、糞便能入藥、性高潮可以治鼻塞……72個真實發生的怪奇事件

    by 蘇上豪 ...
    Narrated by 蘇上豪, 陳宗岳 ...
    Series series HISTORY

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    橫跨醫學、心理學、物理、化學、生物及新聞事件等領域,在詼諧幽默的文字中,深入瞭解故事背後的真諦。作者蘇上豪醫師 親錄導讀★企業家跟精神變態只有一線之隔?許多成功的企業領導人在精神層面上竟有超乎正常人的表現。★不論是盜墓者或考古學家,都會受到「木乃伊的詛咒」?染上惡疾,死於醫生無法診斷的疾病。★性高潮可以治鼻塞,研究的結果顯示,在做愛後鼻呼吸得到改善可以長達60分鐘。★土真的可以吃!據說美艷聞名的埃及艷后就是使用藥用土來保持皮膚的光滑柔潤。★糞便也能治病,變色龍的排泄物,塗抹在患者的喉嚨和胸口上,患者的氣喘竟然痊癒了。透過令人摒息的驚異解說,解答各種科學謎團與怪奇傳說,用說故事的方式來學習科學,引發聽者對科學的好奇心。【作者簡介】蘇上豪◎現任臺北市立聯合醫院心臟血管外科主治醫師... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Art of Seeing

    by Aldous Huxley ...
    Narrated by David Pickering ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 7 min

    A Natural Path to Better VisionUnlike the dystopian vision described in Brave New World, or the psychedelic vision described in his The Doors of Perception, in The Art of Seeing, Aldous Huxley focuses on the actual vision of the human eye. Documenting his own profound near-blindness and subsequent attempts to improve his own sight, Huxley offers a thorough instruction manual on the controversial ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    God's Hotel

    A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

    Narrated by Victoria Sweet ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 44 min

    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 twenty ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    L’Anoressia nervosa

    Unabridged

    4 hours 4 min

    I disturbi alimentari risultano essere in crescita nelle società industrializzate odierne e si configurano come una delle patologie psichiatriche con i più alti tassi di mortalità (OMS, 2014). All’interno del Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali (DSM - V, 2014), tra i disturbi del comportamento alimentare troviamo il disturbo da ruminazione, la pica, il disturbo evitante ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    After Life

    A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Без пяти минут психолог. О чем молчит терапевт, слушая ваши истории

    Series series Звезда соцсети

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    Хотите узнать, что на самом деле пишет терапевт в блокноте и почему он так пугается, когда вы предлагаете дружить? Александр Затона объясняет странности психотерапии через истории реальных клиентов — и собственный опыт. Психотерапия — одно из самых странных занятий: раз в неделю, за свои же деньги, человек приходит встретиться с тем, от чего он так долго убегал. Напротив вас сидит человек: он вам ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Complications

    A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

    by Atul Gawande ...
    Narrated by William David Griffith ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 48 min

    A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    L'Homme, cet inconnu

    by Alexis Carrel ...
    Narrated by Voix Numérique Fabien G ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Ce livre audio est narré par une voix numérique.« Pour grandir de nouveau, l’homme est obligé de se refaire. Et il ne peut pas se refaire sans douleur. Car il est à la fois le marbre et le sculpteur. C’est de sa propre substance qu’il doit, à grands coups de marteau, faire voler les éclats afin de reprendre son vrai visage. »L'ouvrage d'Alexis Carrel, Prix Nobel de Médecine en 1912, est ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Arthritis: The Ultimate Guide to Conquering and Healing Arthritis

    Narrated by Jessie Gross ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    Do you suffer from crippling arthritis?Is it ruining your quality of life every day?Are you ready for a solution that will heal it for good?Arthritis is a debilitating and painful condition that millions suffer from and most never see an end to. It can affect every aspect of life and mean an end to participation in sport, or even mild exercise in its worst case. But there are things you can, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mes carnets de pandémie

    Narrated by Olivier Beauchemin ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 35 min

    Le docteur François Marquis, intensiviste bien connu du public, raconte son expérience de la pandémie. Écrit au « je », son livre nous plonge au coeur du quotidien dans l’unité des soins intensifs d’un hôpital universitaire, avec ses victoires, ses défaites, ses erreurs et ses bons coups. Ce récit d’une grande humilité, à la fois franc et nuancé, nous permet de mieux mesurer les enjeux de société ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    White Hot Light

    Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

    by Frank Huyler ...
    Narrated by Gary Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times BookReview) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this oneexploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctorwith 25 years of experience in the ER.In thelate 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunningmemoir of his exper... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    These Vital Signs

    A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets

    Narrated by Christopher Salazar ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    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 heart of medicine; through stories we strive to communicate, to understand, to empathize, and perhaps find ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Die ene patiënt

    Artsen over de patiënt die hun leven voor altijd veranderde

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    Nu aangevuld met een nieuw verhaal van Anthony Fauci, de belangrijkste adviseur van president Trump bij de strijd tegen de coronapandemie.In Die ene patiënt vertellen zorgverleners over de patiënt die hun leven voor altijd veranderde. Van chirurg tot psychiater en van ouderenverpleegkundige tot seksuoloog; de verhalen die in deze bundel door Ellen de Visser zijn samengebracht vormen een unieke ... Read more

    $27.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Nachtdienst

    Onvergetelijke en ontroerende verhalen uit de zorg

    by Rhijja Jansen ...
    Narrated by Thijs Miedema, Roos van Erkel ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 58 min

    Werken in de nacht heeft iets magisch, iets bijzonders en soms ook iets griezeligs. De rust biedt ruimte voor diepgaandere momenten, maar ook voor een spanning die overdag ontbreekt. In dit boek delen zorgverleners herinneringen aan hun meest memorabele nachtdienst, waarin ze zorgen voor het fysieke én emotionele welzijn van hun patiënten. Ze vertellen openhartig over het belang van ogenschijnlijk ... Read more

    $17.46 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    創造力的修行:打開一切可能

    The Creative Act: A Way of Being

    Narrated by 郝明義 ...
    Series Audiobook 148 - From

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    一個不會任何樂器,也不懂得使用錄音控台的人,卻能贏得八座葛萊美獎,被歐美音樂界的巨星視為「傳奇」。我不懂音樂,但我很了解自己要的是什麼。────《創造力的修行:打開一切可能》作者 里克・魯賓紐約時報暢銷書排行榜 第一名亞馬遜暢銷書排行榜 創意類 第一名亞馬遜暢銷書排行榜 大眾心理學類 第一名亞馬遜暢銷書排行榜 全分類 第四名 蟬聯十六週天神級音樂製作人,公開自己窮極一生累積的心法我的初衷,是要寫一本如何創造偉大藝術的書。然而它揭露了自己,變成了一本關於如何「活著」的書。其中有些想法可能引起共鳴,也有一些可能不會。有些可能喚醒你內心原本已遭遺忘的某種認識。有益的,加以利用。至於其他,就放手。如果世界上的萬事萬物,都是創作的「材料」,我們可以怎麼妥善地運用它們?在橫跨四十年的音樂製作生涯裡,里克・魯賓不但是葛萊美獎的常勝軍,也是許多知名音樂人心中一等一的大師(guru)。然而 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Alzheimer's Canyon

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    "In the middle of the night I wake up and don't know where I am.... Am I in my house? My neighbor's house? Do I turn on the light? Do I get dressed? I turn to Jane, hold her hand, and let her bring me back to reality."What do you do when your reality slips away? If you're Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell, you accept each new challenge, reshape your life, and write.When Sky was diagnosed with "probable ... Read more

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