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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

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $9.02 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Day In The Life Of An Ambulance Driver

    by Adam Weddle ...
    Narrated by Chris Reilly ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 47 min

    A Day In The Life Of An Ambulance Driver is a collection of stories told from the viewpoint of the author during his time as an EMT, paramedic and Navy Corpsman. These stories are based on real life situations and told with attention to detail in an attempt to help the reader visualize the experience for him or her self. ... Read more

    $7.19 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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    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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    怪奇醫學研究所:72個顛覆想像的趣味醫學故事

    by 蘇上豪 ...
    Narrated by 蘇上豪 ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 57 min

    一本深具開創性,將醫學、心理學、物理、化學、生物等融匯於一爐的集錦之作。收錄72個趣味小故事,發掘文字背後隱藏的真相,並提供一種新思路。★叩診的聽音診病,竟來自酒桶的靈感★天生一張娃娃臉,竟有意想不到的好處★極地遇險吃狗續命,竟發生行為舉止怪異★吃腦補腦,人類頭骨有特殊的治癒能力嗎?★面對不婚不生,羅馬皇帝如何催婚?★鏈鋸一開始不是為了伐木,是為幫助女性分娩而發明★杜松子酒不是為了做雞尾酒的,是哺乳期的營養★毒蜥蜴的唾液能醫糖尿病,還能減肥作者以生動有趣又深具啟發的方式來陳述原本應該複雜且枯燥的人物或軼事。採用筆記小說的手法,每篇文章像生動的短片在讀者面前呈現,通過史料的爬梳整理,剖析實際案例,還原真實故事,帶來更多的啟示。剪輯工程:王奕久(本有聲書附... ... Read more

    $12.66 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Anatomy of Hope

    How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

    Narrated by Jerome Groopman ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 40 min

    An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can changethe course of illnessSince the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.The search for hope is most urgent at the patient’s ... Read more

    $12.95 USD

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    Blouses blanches, colère noire

    by Bernard Kron ...
    Narrated by Isidore Amos ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    La Covid a mis au grand jour la ruine de notre système de santé. De numéro 1 mondial dans les années 1970, il est tombé au 24e rang des pays de l’OCDE ! Pour la première fois depuis la Guerre, l’espérance de vie recule en France. Dans les hôpitaux, 30.000 patients décèdent d'accidents médicaux chaque année. Dans cet essai, Bernard Kron analyse les causes de cet échec. Il décortique les principales ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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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    Shapeshifters

    A Journey Through the Changing Human Body

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Narrated by Thomas Judd ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human lifeTo be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Медицинские сказки от врача-реабилитолога. Как болезнь меняет судьбу пациентов, а реабилитация помогает стать счастливыми

    Series series Звезда соцсети

    Unabridged

    6 hours 40 min

    Болезнь меняет жизнь — иногда резко и беспощадно. Но там, где одни видят конец пути, врач-реабилитолог Мария Панова видит начало новой истории. В своей книге Мария делится опытом восстановления после тяжелых заболеваний, рассказывая о значении комплексной реабилитации и о роли врачей, которые помогают пациентам снова стать счастливыми. Здесь есть правдивые истории людей, чья сила духа вдохновляет, ... Read more

    $12.77 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    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

  • Audiobook

    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

    Les mystères du cerveau: Connaître et soigner

    by Anne Debroise ...
    Narrated by Frédéric KNEIP ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 29 min

    Extrêmement complexe, notre cerveau livre peu à peu ses mystères grâce aux recherches récentes. On connaît mieux aujourd’hui l’ensemble du système nerveux, la structure du cerveau, les éléments qui le composent, et, contrairement aux idées reçues, ses indéniables capacités d’évolution, voire de régénération.Grand régulateur des fonctions vitales (respiration ou sommeil), siège des fonctions ... Read more

    $20.91 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Unseen Body

    A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 21 min

    "Petkoff gives a flawless performance of this doctor/naturalist's memoir, conveying both his inquisitiveness and assuredness with aplomb." - AudioFile"A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine—the rivers and tributaries, the flowing and unclogging, the top-down organization of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    No Apparent Distress

    A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

    Narrated by Rebecca Gibel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at riskIn medical charts, the term “N.A.D.” (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America’s medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor—and the poor suffer from their mistakes.Rachel ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Helpers, The

    Profiles from the Front Lines of the Pandemic

    Narrated by Allyson Voller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    A deeply moving narrative of the coronavirus pandemic, told through portraits of eight individuals who worked tirelessly to help others.In March 2020, COVID-19 overtook the United States, and life changed for America. In a matter of weeks the virus impacted millions, with lockdown measures radically reshaping the lives of even those who did not become infected. Yet despite the fear, hardship, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Когти перемен. Истории из жизни ветеринарного врача

    Series series Звезда соцсети

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    После предательства мужа Надежда уезжает из Петербурга в провинциальный город N, чтобы начать всё с чистого листа. Новая клиника, новые знакомства, насыщенные трудовые будни — и старая добрая надежда на то, что жизнь может заиграть новыми красками. Надю ждет многое: сложные случаи, спасённые животные, чуткие коллеги, порой — равнодушие, порой — благодарность. А ещё кошка по имени Мусильда, которую ... Read more

    $12.77 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Our Malady

    Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

    Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 1 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom.On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into ... Read more

    $12.50 USD

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    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

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    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

    Основы медицины, о которых пора забыть

    Series series Фактология

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    Эта книга — экспресс-курс для тех, кто готов сомневаться во всем! Древняя, античная и средневековая медицина — одни из самых забавных фарсовых страниц в истории, где великие имена — Гиппократ, Гален, Парацельс — на самом деле символы мифов и заблуждений. Эта книга проведет вас от абсолютного незнания до внятного понимания, почему изучение классиков медицины часто оказывается данью устаревшим ... Read more

    $17.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus