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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

    $24.29 USD

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    Neurology Rounds with the Maverick

    Narrated by Gregory V. Diehl ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 49 min

    In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career.Learn about the strange case of the teenage girl who got pulled out of class for medical treatment because she couldn’t stop laughing. Then consider the 14-year-old who faked grand mal seizures for ... Read more

    $16.19 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

    $18.89 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

    $10.76 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

    $22.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    La isla de los ciegos al color

    Unabridged

    9 hours 11 min

    Oliver Sacks siempre se ha sentido atraído por las islas, esos «experimentos de la naturaleza, lugares benditos y malditos por su singularidad geográfica, que albergan formas de vida únicas». En su última obra, esta fascinación le lleva más lejos que nunca, a las remotas islas del Pacífico, donde concilia su afición a explorar el mundo real con su pasión por investigar el mundo de la mente. En ... Read more

    $20.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    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

    $10.43 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    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

    $15.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    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

    $19.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ante todo no hagas daño

    by Henry Marsh ...
    Narrated by Eugenio Barona ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    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.El resultado es este volumen que poco tiempo después de su publicación se encaramó a las listas de más vendidos del Sunday Times y el New York Times. Escogido «Mejor Libro del Año» por el Financial Times y The Economist, obtuvo ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Little Miss Diagnosed

    A Surgeon’s Guide to Breaking Bones and Bending Rules

    Narrated by Erin Nance, MD ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    From the real-life Meredith Grey, comes an inspiring collection of essays based on Dr. Erin Nance’s popular TikTok account @littlemissdiagnosed, detailing Dr. Nance’s journey as a young female orthopedic surgeon navigating challenging cases and ethical dilemmas in the high-stakes, cutthroat world of medicine.In her debut essay collection, renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Erin Nance offers a raw, ... Read more

    $21.59 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

    $21.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Women of the Pandemic

    Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19

    by Lauren McKeon ...
    Narrated by Katie Ryerson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us of women's leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together.Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through the world's defining crises. That all changed with COVID-19. In Canada, women's presence in the response ... Read more

    $16.20 USD

  • 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

    $11.25 USD

  • Audiobook

    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

    $8.13 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Miracles We Have Seen

    America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    This is a book of miracles—medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters.Among the extraordinary cases ... Read more

    $17.99 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

    $14.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    Personale Sanitario In Tempi Di Pandemia. Una Prospettiva Psicologica.

    Unabridged

    2 hours 27 min

    In seguito al successo del libro intitolato ”Aspetti psicologici nei tempi della pandemia”, in cui vengono affrontati temi relativi all’ impatto del virus sulla vita dei cittadini dal punto di vista psicologico, e sulla base dell’espressa richiesta da parte dei lettori di un testo incentrato sul personale sanitario, ho deciso di scrivere questo libro. L'obiettivo è quello di offrire informazioni ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $15.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    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

    $20.69 USD

  • 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

    $17.66 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines

    Narrated by Dhaval R Desai M.D. ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai's life during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. His commitment to fostering and advocating for humanity in medicine inspired him to write a personal narrative of his ... Read more

    $10.43 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    男人的憂傷,只有屌知道:你不可不知的性智慧

    You Can Be Your Own Sex Therapist

    by 梁秀眉 ...
    Narrated by 梁秀眉 ...
    Series Audiobook 200 - Smile

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    ★心理諮商師梁秀眉獨門性治療方法大公開!搭配個案分析,全面拯救你的男言之隱。★性功能障礙是這個時代的文明病;走進性治療診療室,認識陽痿、性成癮等性功能障礙的成因與自助方法,並覺察己身的性智慧,增進伴侶關係,享受性愉悅。**★音樂人許常德、亞洲首部性治療影集《今夜一起為愛鼓掌》執行製作人曾馨儀強力推薦。      ****陽具無所不在卻隱而不顯,如同男人的憂傷……   ****無論是愈做感情反而愈不睦的醫生與醫生娘;   ****或是出外獵豔反而會軟屌的博弈業老闆;   ****還是持續訓練二十年卻仍然早洩的男子;   **每個人講述自身的性問題,其實就是在講述他的人生。隨著科技進步與社會變革,二十一世紀的人們正置身於性刺激、性資訊氾濫的時代。現代社會中的「性文化」也正在發生劇變,而這種變化還在不斷加速,但人們對性的理解卻沒能與時俱進,許多人甚或連性知識都沒機會接觸,大... ... Read more

    $7.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus