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Lifelines audiobook
- By: Dr. Leana Wen
- Narrator: Dr. Leana Wen
- Category: Medical, Public Health
- Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 27, 2021
- Language: English
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Lifelines Audiobook Summary
“Dr. Wen is determined to convince listeners how crucial it is to make healthcare and all it encompasses higher priorities. Covering a variety of physical and mental health topics, Wen entreats listeners and supports her plea with solid evidence. She is vibrant in tone when pointing out how much public health affects our lives.” — Audiofile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider’s account of public health and its crucial role–from opioid addiction to global pandemic–and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People.
“Public health saved your life today–you just don’t know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19.
Leana Wen–emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist–has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health.
Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities.
Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live.
A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books
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Lifelines Audiobook Narrator
Dr. Leana Wen is the narrator of Lifelines audiobook that was written by Dr. Leana Wen
Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician, public health professor at George Washington University, and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a contributing columnist for the Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst. Previously, she served as Baltimore’s health commissioner, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating public health department. She is the author of the patient advocacy book, When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests and the new memoir, Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health. Dr. Wen lives with her husband and their two young children in Baltimore.
About the Author(s) of Lifelines
Dr. Leana Wen is the author of Lifelines
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Lifelines Full Details
| Narrator | Dr. Leana Wen |
| Length | 11 hours 35 minutes |
| Author | Dr. Leana Wen |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | July 27, 2021 |
| ISBN | 9781250807793 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Lifelines is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Medical, Public Health
Additional info
The publisher of the Lifelines is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250807793.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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