American Health Care

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    • What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
    • By: Marty Makary MD
    • Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it....

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    • How We Lost Our Health Care System
    • By: Robert W. Derlet
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours....

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    • An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America’s Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story and business exposé, Pain Killer is the origin story of the opioid crisis, a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the trigger for a national tragedy....

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    • A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
    • By: Dayna Bowen Matthew
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system - and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
    • By: Alondra Nelson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care....

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    • What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
    • By: Sandro Galea
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

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    • Rebooting American Health Care
    • By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....

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    • The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
    • By: Laurie Kaye Abraham, David A. Ansell MD - foreword
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 18-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement - and How You Can Fight Back
    • By: Jacob S. Hacker
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2014
    • Language: English
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    • America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling....

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    • How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of Covid
    • By: Jonathan Howard
    • Narrated by: Chet Williamson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The problem with pandemics is that people want to forget them. One year, a million Americans are killed by a deadly new virus. The next, everyone is back rooting for the Georgia Bulldogs. The impulse to move on from this particular kind of tragedy is more than a little odd....

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    • Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
    • By: Peter J. Whitehouse, Daniel R. George
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe....

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

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    • A Smart Guide for Girls Growing Up Ages 8-12 Years Old, Building Self-Esteem and Loving Your Body (American Girls Book About Puberty)
    • By: Olivia Charlotte
    • Narrated by: Tabitha Gee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-2023
    • Language: English
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    • This American Girls Book About Puberty audiobook is a must-have resource for any girl looking to understand her body better, build self-esteem, and practice good hygiene and self-care habits. With easy-to-follow language, this audiobook covers everything...

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    • How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
    • By: David Goldhill
    • Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-01-2013
    • Language: English
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    • A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 17-06-2024
    • Language: English
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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.

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