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    • A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII
    • By: Kyra Cornelius Kramer
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • With his tumultuous love life, relentless pursuit of a male heir, and drastic religious transformation, England's King Henry VIII's life sounds more like reality television than history. He was a man of fascinating contradictions. What could have caused his incredible paradoxes? Find out....

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    • The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
    • By: Ed Patrick
    • Narrated by: Ed Patrick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A gut punch of a memoir by a doctor - and comedian - whose job is to keep people alive by putting them to sleep....

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    • How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky and an Animaniac Saved My Life
    • By: Rob Paulsen, Michael Fleeman - contributor
    • Narrated by: Ash Paulsen, Rob Paulsen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Rob Paulsen is one of Hollywood's busiest and most passionate performers. If you don't know him by name, you will know him by the many characters he has brought to life: Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Yakko from Animaniacs, and more....

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    • A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
    • By: Jon McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Known as one of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans plays host to incidents ranging from the tragic and disturbing to the completely bizarre - and during his career as an emergency medic, Jon McCarthy saw it all....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
    • By: Anthony Youn MD, Alan Eisenstock - contributor
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice....

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    • A Story of the Lies About Addiction and the Truth About Recovery
    • By: David Poses
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth....

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    • Doctors and Nurses’ Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever
    • By: Ellen de Visser
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass, Julian Wadham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Every weekend, in Holland’s most popular newspaper, de Volkskrant, renowned science-journalist Ellen de Visser asks a different medical professional to tell her about ‘that one patient’; the patient who changed everything for them....

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    • The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
    • By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city....

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    • True Tales of Mishaps, Emergencies, and Miracles from a Montana Physician
    • By: Ron Losee
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1949, Ron Losee, a young Yale Medical School graduate, headed west with his wife and small daughter to begin the practice of medicine....

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    • By: Molly McCully Brown
    • Narrated by: Rupert Farley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, survived the Australian detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon....

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    • An Optimist Considers Mortality
    • By: Michael J. Fox
    • Narrated by: Michael J Fox
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, ageing, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality....

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    • By: Kate Marshall
    • Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each month exploring the people she meets, in life and death, as well as her own growing awareness of life behind the veil....

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    • By: Tim Booth
    • Narrated by: Tim Booth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career....

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    • A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Peter Canning
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A first responder to hundreds of overdoses throughout the rise of America's epidemic, Peter Canning tells stories of opioid overdose from a street-level vantage point....

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    • Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
    • By: Hadley Vlahos
    • Narrated by: Hadley Vlahos
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Hospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die....

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    • The Complete Story
    • By: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"....

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    • Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....

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