29 Best books for Medical School Students
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60 pasos para el diagnostico medico (60 steps to medical diagnosis)
- By: Javier de la Fuente Rocha
- Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: September 27, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDEn esta obra, el doctor De la Fuente, a partir de su vasta experiencia profesional, describe en 60 pasos el me’todo de interpretacio’n cli’nica para problemas complejos que busca facilitar la labor diagno’stica delEn esta obra, el doctor De la Fuente, a partir de su vasta experiencia profesional, describe en 60 pasos el me’todo de interpretacio’n cli’nica para problemas complejos que busca facilitar la labor diagno’stica del me’dico en su camino de descubrimiento. Con sencillez y profundidad a la vez, el autor ahonda en aspectos estrate’gicos como son la informacio’n que se tiene que recabar, las preguntas a las que tiene que responder, la forma en la que hay que analizarla, los juicios que hay que hacer, las relaciones que hay que establecer y el co’mo integrar el resultado final. Todo esto con el objetivo de brindar al paciente un diagno’stico certero y oportuno de la enfermedad que padece, el cual es indispensable para emprender un tratamiento adecuado.
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A Code for Carolyn
- By: V. Anne Smith
- Narrator: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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5(3 ratings)
5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDCarolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the “Human Hoax” ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X–a chromosomalCarolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the “Human Hoax” ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X–a chromosomal abnormality–yet no synthetically constructed genome would have such clear traces of natural conception. Many years later, as a molecular biologist, Carolyn hopes her colleagues never learn of her embarrassing origins. But when someone ransacks her office and lab, she finds professional embarrassment is the least of her worries. Someone believes she has the results of her parents’ last, secret experiments, and is willing to kill to get them. But all she has from her parents are their genes–can she find what else they may have left her before somebody else does?
In a not-so-distant society, where corporations wield as much power as nations and the line between corporate employee and state authority is blurred, the chase is on. Carolyn may have just too little time at hand to unravel the mystery of her parents’ final days and to realize the deep consequences for the future of mankind.
This fast-paced novel is followed by an extensive science chapter where the author provides a nontechnical primer on modern genetics and on the speculative biology behind Carolyn’s code.
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A Fierce Radiance
- By: Lauren Belfer
- Narrator: Paula Christensen
- Length: 18 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 27, 2010
- Language: English
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3.67(2582 ratings)
3.67(2582 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.99 USDA Washington Post Best Novel of the Year An NPR Best Mystery of the Year This suspenseful novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light follows a photojournalist as she takes on an assignment that will involve blackmail,A Washington Post Best Novel of the Year
An NPR Best Mystery of the Year
This suspenseful novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light follows a photojournalist as she takes on an assignment that will involve blackmail, espionage, and murder–all in the early days of America’s involvement in World War II.
In the anxious and uncertain days after Pearl Harbor, beautiful, talented Life magazine photojournalist Claire Shipley is assigned to cover the clinical testing of a new medication at the renowned Rockefeller Institute in New York. Still grieving the death of her young daughter from an infection, Claire is shocked by what she finds there: the doctors and researchers are attempting to cure fatal infections with a little-known, temperamental medicine made from green mold, which they’re calling penicillin–and that may be just the beginning of their breakthroughs.
As the nation plunges into war, Claire begins an intense love affair with James Stanton, an Institute physician given the difficult, top-secret task of coordinating penicillin research for the military. Meanwhile Claire’s long-estranged father, a self-made millionaire entrepreneur, is realizing the potential of the new mold-derived medications to transform the very nature of human existence.
When James’s sister and colleague dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes involved in the antibiotic breakthrough become starkly clear. Caught between the extremes of war and greed, Claire finds her new relationship challenged in ways she could never have predicted.
At once a thriller, a love story, a family saga, and a window into the tumultuous home front during World War II, A FIERCE RADIANCE will captivate readers.
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A Week to Change Your Life
- By: Olivia Audrey
- Narrator: Olivia Audrey
- Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.33(35 ratings)
3.33(35 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDRenowned naturopathic doctor to the stars shares a “perfect roadmap” (Dr. Mike Moreno, New York Times bestselling author of The 17 Day Diet book series) to the life-changing seven-day plan personalized to you and your birthday that canRenowned naturopathic doctor to the stars shares a “perfect roadmap” (Dr. Mike Moreno, New York Times bestselling author of The 17 Day Diet book series) to the life-changing seven-day plan personalized to you and your birthday that can radically improve your health and wellbeing.
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Do you regularly get the Monday Blues? Are you always tired on Fridays, even though you want to be excited for the weekend? There may be more to it than just a long work week.
Over the course of a week, the human body goes through a cycle of self-regulation. Our energy levels, inflammation levels, capacity to focus, and even our immunity all fluctuate naturally based on this internal seven-day cycle, scientifically known as the circaseptan rhythm. Now, Dr. Olivia Audrey reveals how we can tap into the power of this seven-day cycle to transform our health and overhaul our mind and mood.
The key to understanding your own circaseptan rhythm is, remarkably, from the day of the week on which you were born. The birth experience is like a hormonal storm that inflames the body, one that is repeated week after week with an ebb and flow of inflammation and repair that lasts seven days. This cycle has a measurable impact on mood, energy, and all the facets of physical health. Dr. Audrey’s protocol provides instructions for aligning your health goals with your body’s natural circaseptan rhythm, unlocking extraordinary benefits. With her accessible writing and actionable advice, Dr. Audrey reveals the secret to harnessing your body’s natural rhythm in order to heal whatever ails you and boost how you look, feel, and live. This plan can be effective for losing weight, gaining focus, fighting specific diseases, or simply feeling more in tune with your life.
A Week to Change Your Life is the ultimate program to “show us a different way of looking at the problems, reminding us to keep practicing and to feel joy,” (Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York) so you can create a life of radiant health and energy. -
Adverse Effects
- By: Joel Shulkin
- Narrator: Madeleine Lambert
- Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.69(57 ratings)
3.69(57 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDDetermined to help her amnesiac patients recover their lives, Boston psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving near-miraculous results by prescribing Recognate, a revolutionary new memory-recovery drug now in trials. She understands herDetermined to help her amnesiac patients recover their lives, Boston psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving near-miraculous results by prescribing Recognate, a revolutionary new memory-recovery drug now in trials. She understands her patients’ suffering better than most, because she’s lost her memories, too. Desperate to become herself again, she pops the same experimental drug she prescribes to her patients. And, like them, she remembers a little more each day.
Until one of her patients, a successful accountant, jumps from an eight-story window to his death. And as Cristina’s memories return, with them come violent visions and an incessant voice in her head. Maybe the drug isn’t safe after all. But discontinuing it would mean forgetting everything she’s recalled and losing herself.
Then an enigmatic, possibly dangerous man appears at Cristina’s bus stop. He seems to know more about her life than she does and says she holds a secret that puts her life in danger. Perilously balanced between an unknown past and a terrifying future, if she wants to survive, Cristina must stay on the medication and unlock those memories before it’s too late—even if the adverse effects of the drug could destroy her.
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A History of Present Illness
- By: Anna DeForest
- Narrator: Helen Laser
- Length: 3 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 16, 2022
- Language: English
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3.23(454 ratings)
3.23(454 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDA novel of meticulous brevity and a tone and vision all its own, transmuting the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation–physical, spiritual, or both.A young woman puts onA novel of meticulous brevity and a tone and vision all its own, transmuting the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation–physical, spiritual, or both.
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A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a budding relationship with a seminarian.
In the troubled world of the hospital, where the language of blood tests and organ systems so often hides the heart of the matter, she works her way from one bed to another, from a man dying of substance use and tuberculosis, to a child in pain crisis, to a young woman, fading from confusion to aphasia to death. The long hours and heartrending work begin to blur the lines between her new life as a physician and the lifelong traumas she has fled.
In brilliant, wry, and biting prose, A History of Present Illness is a boldly honest meditation on the body, the hope of healing in the face of total loss, and what it means to be alive. -
A Single Light
- By: Tosca Lee
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.08(1457 ratings)
4.08(1457 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn this gripping, high-octane sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls “everything you want in a thriller,” cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to findIn this gripping, high-octane sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls “everything you want in a thriller,” cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease.
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Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty-one others, Wynter and Chase emerge to an altered world. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they surfaced–the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs.
As the clock ticks down on Julie’s life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground?
With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. They come face-to-face with a radically changed society, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon again to help save a nation she no longer recognizes–a place so chaotic she’s no longer sure it can even survive.
With Tosca Lee’s signature “beautifully written and deeply unnerving” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author) prose, A Single Light is a breathless thriller of nonstop suspense. -
Autopsy
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrator: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 30, 2021
- Language: English
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3.85(7452 ratings)
3.85(7452 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDNew York Times Bestseller In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders. Forensic pathologist Dr. KayNew York Times Bestseller
In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the chief medical examiner. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she’s inherited both an overbearing secretary and a legacy of neglect and potential corruption.
She and her husband, Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria, where she’s headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that’s been torn apart by civil and political unrest. After just weeks on the job, she’s called to a scene by railroad tracks–a woman’s body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine–and as Scarpetta begins to follow the trail, it leads unnervingly close to her own historic neighborhood.
At the same time, a catastrophe occurs in a top secret laboratory in outer space, endangering at least two scientists aboard. Appointed to the highly classified Doomsday Commission that specializes in sensitive national security cases, Scarpetta is summoned to the White House and tasked with finding out exactly what happened. But even as she remotely works the first potential crime scene in space, an apparent serial killer strikes again very close to home.
This latest novel in the groundbreaking Kay Scarpetta series captivates readers with the shocking twists, high-wire tension, and forensic detail that Patricia Cornwell is famous for, proving once again why she’s the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer.
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Bloodstream
- By: Tess Gerritsen
- Narrator: Jan Maxwell
- Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1998
- Language: English
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3.98(10632 ratings)
3.98(10632 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.95 USDWith her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel theWith her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves.
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Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father’s death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practice on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town’s teenagers.
As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century, the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence. Claire suspects that there is a biological cause for the epidemic, and she fears that the placid Locust Lake may conceal an insidious danger. As she races to save Tranquility—and her son—from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature and cause innocents to slaughter. -
Aftershock
- By: Andrew Vachss
- Narrator: Natalie Ross
- Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 11, 2013
- Language: English
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3.66(651 ratings)
3.66(651 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAfter a life in various war zones, Dell and Dolly have settled in this town, fulfilling Dolly’s lifelong dream. Though she has given up her nursing career and moved smoothly into civilian life, Dell had been a mercenary, so they both have toAfter a life in various war zones, Dell and Dolly have settled in this town, fulfilling Dolly’s lifelong dream. Though she has given up her nursing career and moved smoothly into civilian life, Dell had been a mercenary, so they both have to sacrifice their prior identities. When the star of the girls’ softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly asks Dell to uncover the motive behind this inexplicable crime. It doesn’t take him long to uncover a horrifying rite of passage. The pitcher’s guilt is not in doubt, yet she deserves a trial, so Dell and Dolly must put together a defense. What they discover culminates in a decision to put the town itself on trial.
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Containment
- By: Hank Parker
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.22(236 ratings)
3.22(236 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom Hank Parker, a former Homeland Security advisor specializing in bio- and agro-terrorism, comes a chillingly realistic debut thriller about a global plot to release a deadly virus and the elite response team who must try and stop it.It’s aFrom Hank Parker, a former Homeland Security advisor specializing in bio- and agro-terrorism, comes a chillingly realistic debut thriller about a global plot to release a deadly virus and the elite response team who must try and stop it.
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It’s a race against time to both find a vaccine and unravel a bio-terrorist conspiracy when a terrifying new tick-borne virus is traced to an extremist group in Southeast Asia. Government epidemiologist Mariah Rossi must leave the safety of her lab behind to help CIA agent Curt Kennedy track the disease to its source. Their harrowing journey from one hot zone to another takes them from the jungles of the Philippines to the coral reefs near Malaysian Borneo, then back to the United States where martial law has been declared to keep the deadly disease contained.
For fans of Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, this “is a true thriller with non-stop action and a terrifyingly realistic look at what could happen if terrorists were able to release a virus in America” (Scott McEwen, author of American Sniper). -
Deprivers
- By: Steven-Elliot Altman
- Narrator: Christopher Lane
- Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.67(164 ratings)
3.67(164 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDRobert Luxley has a biological problem that he does not understand and cannot control: one touch from his bare hand will leave you paralyzed for fifteen minutes. He thinks he’s one of a kind, until he meets Cassandra, another carrier of whatRobert Luxley has a biological problem that he does not understand and cannot control: one touch from his bare hand will leave you paralyzed for fifteen minutes. He thinks he’s one of a kind, until he meets Cassandra, another carrier of what she calls Sensory Deprivation Syndrome.
Fearing discovery, Luxely follows Cassandra through a dark underground of “Deprivers” in a desperate search for his brother Nicholas, who has been taken hostage by a radical gang of carriers with a terrifying agenda. Meanwhile, as knowledge of SDS spreads, panic erupts, and soon no Depriver anywhere will be safe.
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Heart Failure
- By: Richard Mabry
- Narrator: Richard Mabry
- Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: September 06, 2022
- Language: English
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4.02(209 ratings)
4.02(209 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWhen her fiance’s dangerous secrets turn her work upside down, a beautiful doctor must choose between her own safety and the man she loves–and thought she knew. Dr. Carrie Markham’s heart was broken by the death of her husband twoWhen her fiance’s dangerous secrets turn her work upside down, a beautiful doctor must choose between her own safety and the man she loves–and thought she knew.
Dr. Carrie Markham’s heart was broken by the death of her husband two years ago. Now, just as her medical practice is taking off, her fresh engagement to paralegal Adam Davidson seems almost too good to be true . . . until a drive-by shooting leaves Carrie on the floor of his car with glass falling around her.
When he confesses that Adam isn’t his real name and that he fled the witness protection program, Carrie is left with an impossible choice: should she abandon the fiance she isn’t sure she really knows, or accept his claim of innocence and help him fight back against this faceless menace?
While Carrie struggles to decide whether to follow her heart or her head, the threats against them continue to escalate. Her life–as well as Adam’s–depends on making the right choice . . . and the clock is ticking.
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Beating Endo
- By: Iris Kerin Orbuch MD
- Narrator: Anna Crowe
- Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Wave
- Publish date: June 25, 2019
- Language: English
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3.97(31 ratings)
3.97(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFrom two of the world’s leading experts in endometriosis comes an essential, first-of-its kind book that unwraps the mystery of the disease and gives women the tools they need to reclaim their lives from it. Approximately one out of every 10From two of the world’s leading experts in endometriosis comes an essential, first-of-its kind book that unwraps the mystery of the disease and gives women the tools they need to reclaim their lives from it.
Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease that causes chronic pain, limits life’s activities, and may lead to infertility. Despite the disease’s prevalence, the average woman may suffer for a decade or more before receiving an accurate diagnosis. Once she does, she’s often given little more than a prescription for pain killers and a referral for the wrong kind of surgery. Beating Endo arms women with what has long been missing–even within the medical community–namely, cutting-edge knowledge of how the disease works and what the endo sufferer can do to take charge of her fight against it.
Leading gynecologist and endometriosis specialist Dr. Iris Kerin Orbuch and world-renowned pelvic pain specialist and physical therapist Dr. Amy Stein have long partnered with each other and with other healthcare practitioners to address the disease’s host of co-existing conditions–which can include pelvic floor muscle dysfunction, gastrointestinal ailments, painful bladder syndrome, central nervous system sensitization–through a whole-mind/whole-body approach. Now, Beating Endo formalizes the multimodal program they developed, offering readers an anti-inflammatory lifestyle protocol that incorporates physical therapy, nutrition, mindfulness, and environment to systematically addresses each of the disease’s co-conditions on an ongoing basis up to and following excision surgery. This is the program that has achieved successful outcomes for their patients; it is the program that works to restore health, vitality, and quality of life to women with endo.
No more “misdiagnosis roulette” and no more limits on women’s lives: Beating Endo puts the tools of renewed health in the hands of those whose health is at risk.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Living Proof
- By: Kira Peikoff
- Narrator: Kira Peikoff
- Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 28, 2012
- Language: English
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3.49(386 ratings)
3.49(386 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDKira Peikoff’s debut novel Living Proof is a dystopian thriller set in 2027 that paints a chilling portrait of a world in which citizens have been stripped of nearly all their reproductive rights. On orders, Department of Embryo PreservationKira Peikoff’s debut novel Living Proof is a dystopian thriller set in 2027 that paints a chilling portrait of a world in which citizens have been stripped of nearly all their reproductive rights. On orders, Department of Embryo Preservation agent Trent Rowe infiltrates an unusually successful fertility clinic, and grows close to the clinic’s proprietor, Arianna Drake. Drawn into her world, Trent soon begins questioning everything he’s ever known and believed in.
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Surviving Cancerland
- By: Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos
- Narrator: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWhen Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos discovered a pea-sized lump in her breast, she did what any sensible woman would do: She went to see her doctor, who assured her that she was in good health and that the lump was nothing but a fibrous tumor andWhen Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos discovered a pea-sized lump in her breast, she did what any sensible woman would do: She went to see her doctor, who assured her that she was in good health and that the lump was nothing but a fibrous tumor and posed no threat. Kathleen was not convinced, particularly in light of the fact that her mother had recently died of cancer. In a dream that night, Kathleen saw her spiritual guide/guardian angel who took her hand, placed it on her breast, and said, “You have cancer right here. Feel it? Go back to your doctor tomorrow. Don’t wait for an appointment.” So began a medical odyssey that would take Kathleen and her loved ones on a seemingly endless roller-coaster ride of fear and frustration, hope and healing, and profound spiritual growth.
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The Day My Brain Exploded
- By: Ashok Rajamani
- Narrator: Ashok Rajamani
- Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.45(521 ratings)
3.45(521 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.95 USDAfter a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to be reborn, relearning the most basic of things, piecing together a past, reclaiming a life, and coping with the societalAfter a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to be reborn, relearning the most basic of things, piecing together a past, reclaiming a life, and coping with the societal prejudice inflicted on those with traumatic injury. With humor, spirit, and insight, he describes the catastrophic event (his brain exploded just before his brother’s wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family–his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement. Irreverent, coruscating, at times shocking, but always revelatory, this audio production of his critically acclaimed memoir takes the listener into unfamiliar territory, much like the experience Alice had when she fell down the rabbit hole. That Ashok lived to tell the story is miraculous; that he tells it with such aplomb is simply remarkable.
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Oxygen
- By: Carol Cassella
- Narrator: Carol Cassella
- Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 27, 2009
- Language: English
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3.74(7084 ratings)
3.74(7084 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDCarol Cassella, a freelance medical writer and a practicing anesthesiologist, grounds her haunting debut novel Oxygen in the life-or-death scenarios of the modern medical field. Marie Heaton’s successful anesthesiology practice is derailedCarol Cassella, a freelance medical writer and a practicing anesthesiologist, grounds her haunting debut novel Oxygen in the life-or-death scenarios of the modern medical field. Marie Heaton’s successful anesthesiology practice is derailed when a child dies under the mask. Faced with a major lawsuit, she must turn to a former lover for moral support.
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Phantom Limb
- By: Dr. Lucinda Berry
- Narrator: Kate Marcin
- Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 04, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEmily and Elizabeth spent their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drank too much and disappeared for days. The identical twins were rescued by a family determined to be their saviors. But there are some horrors loveEmily and Elizabeth spent their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drank too much and disappeared for days. The identical twins were rescued by a family determined to be their saviors.
But there are some horrors love can’t erase…
Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. The last thing she remembers is finding Emily’s body in their bathroom. Days before, she was falling in love and starting college. Now, she’s surrounded by men who talk to themselves and women who pull out their eyebrows.
As she delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Emily’s death, she discovers shocking secrets and holes in her memory that force her to remember what she’s worked so hard to forget–the beatings, the blood, the special friends. Her life spins out of control at a terrifying speed as she desperately tries to unravel the psychological puzzle of her past before it’s too late.
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Regeneration
- By: Barbara Collins
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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3.47(38 ratings)
3.47(38 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDJoyce Lackey was a classic baby-boomer. She had it all: a high-paying position, a beautiful condo, a BMW. But there was one thing she didn’t have any more–her youth, and that was what she needed most. Her boss fired her because he wantedJoyce Lackey was a classic baby-boomer. She had it all: a high-paying position, a beautiful condo, a BMW. But there was one thing she didn’t have any more–her youth, and that was what she needed most.
Her boss fired her because he wanted someone with “young blood and young ideas.” Joyce was forced to start all over again. But could she compete with all the beautiful young kids who were so hungry for what she had?
The X-Gen Agency could give Joyce everything she wanted, everything she needed–a new job, a new body, and a new identity. In short: a new life, but there was a price. It seemed reasonable enough when Joyce signed the contracts, and besides, she was desperate. By the time she realized what she had done, it was too late to turn back. This was one contract without an escape clause …
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The Immortalist
- By: Scott Britz
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 13 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.37(70 ratings)
3.37(70 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDFor fans of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton comes a medical thriller that melds cutting-edge science with ripped-from-the-headlines terror. What happens when a new immortality drug leads to an explosive outbreak of a deadly virus that, if notFor fans of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton comes a medical thriller that melds cutting-edge science with ripped-from-the-headlines terror. What happens when a new immortality drug leads to an explosive outbreak of a deadly virus that, if not contained, could wipe out humanity once and for all?
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World-renowned virologist Dr. Cricket Rensselaer-Wright abruptly abandoned her research in Africa after watching her colleague die tragically from the Ebola virus. When she returns to the States to reunite with her teenage daughter Emmy, her plans are sidetracked. No sooner does she set foot on the campus of Acadia Springs–the research institute where she grew up and Emmy now lives–than her onetime mentor Charles Gifford announces his discovery of the Methuselah Vector, a gene therapy agent that can confer immortality on a patient after a single injection.
Gifford’s air of triumph is marred when a young woman on campus dies suddenly from a horrific viral infection, eerily similar to the Ebola that drove Cricket out of Africa. Despite Cricket’s pleas to slow down the rollout of the Vector and run more tests, Gifford refuses. And when the unthinkable happens–when Emmy falls ill with the same mysterious disease–Cricket is forced to take matters into her own hands. But is it already too late?
Gifford will stop at nothing to release the Vector into the world. Mobs are clamoring for it. Cricket has only a few hours to find a cure for Emmy, and to convince the public that Gifford’s quest for eternal life may cost the very lives he hopes to save. -
The Song of Our Scars
- By: Haider Warraich
- Narrator: Haider Warraich
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 19, 2022
- Language: English
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3.92(93 ratings)
3.92(93 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effectiveIn The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as aA doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective
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In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.
Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suffering mattered and whose didn’t. He weaves a provocative history from the Renaissance, when pain transformed into a medical issue, through the racial legacy of pain tolerance, to the opiate epidemics of both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. The conclusion is clear: only by reckoning with both pain’s complicated history and its biology can today’s doctors adequately treat their patients’ suffering.
Trenchant and deeply felt, The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body. -
Your Pregnancy, Your Way
- By: Allison Hill
- Narrator: Alicyn Packard
- Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 11, 2017
- Language: English
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4.16(40 ratings)
4.16(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDAs an OB/GYN, Dr. Allison Hill has delivered thousands of babies; as a mom, she’s given birth to her own two children. Hill has a unique perspective on the many questions moms have surrounding pregnancy and childbirthespecially when it comesAs an OB/GYN, Dr. Allison Hill has delivered thousands of babies; as a mom, she’s given birth to her own two children. Hill has a unique perspective on the many questions moms have surrounding pregnancy and childbirthespecially when it comes to “going natural.” Drawing on her twenty years of expertise as well as current medical data, she weighs the pros and cons of the range of options availablehospital or birthing center; MD or midwife. Covering everything from understanding a doctor’s bias to medical interventions (what’s necessaryand what’s not) to home births, Hill debunks common myths and provides insight into hot-button issues and a keen look into why doctors do what they do. Your Pregnancy, Your Way helps parents-to-be achieve a safe and healthy delivery.... Read more -
Uncaring
- By: Robert Pearl
- Narrator: James Fouhey
- Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 18, 2021
- Language: English
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4.03(168 ratings)
4.03(168 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDDoctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them.Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out andDoctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them.
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Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional healthcare system. But that’s only part of the problem.
In this important and timely book, Dr. Robert Pearl shines a light on the unseen and often toxic culture of medicine. Today’s physicians have a surprising disdain for technology, an unhealthy obsession with status, and an increasingly complicated relationship with their patients. All of this can be traced back to their earliest experiences in medical school, where doctors inherit a set of norms, beliefs, and expectations that shape almost every decision they make, with profound consequences for the rest of us.
Uncaring draws an original and revealing portrait of what it’s actually like to be a doctor. It illuminates the complex and intimidating world of medicine for readers, and in the end offers a clear plan to save American healthcare. -
Until Proven Safe
- By: Nicola Twilley
- Narrator: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 20, 2021
- Language: English
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3.93(546 ratings)
3.93(546 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDGeoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent listening for social-distanced times but alsoGeoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent listening for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces—biological, political, technological–that shape our modern world.
Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe.
Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space–from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus.
But the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. In Until Proven Safe, the authors tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply, and meet NASA’s Planetary Protection Officer, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. They also introduce us to the corporate tech giants hoping to revolutionize quarantine through surveillance and algorithmic prediction.
We live in a disorienting historical moment that can feel both unprecedented and inevitable; Until Proven Safe helps us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Vaccinated
- By: Paul A Offit
- Narrator: Tim Dixon
- Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.28(721 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDUpdated with a New Foreword “Medical writing at its finest.”–David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tributeUpdated with a New Foreword
“Medical writing at its finest.”–David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs–vaccinations–and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.
Maurice Hilleman’s mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister was stillborn. Believing that he had escaped an appointment with death, he made it his life’s work to see that others could do the same. The fruits of his labors were nine vaccines that practically every child receives, everyday miracles of modern medicine that have eradicated some of the most common–and devastating–diseases, including mumps and rubella.
Offit, a vaccine researcher himself who co-invented the rotavirus vaccine, befriended Hilleman and, during the great man’s final months, interviewed him extensively about his life and career. Those conversations are the heart of Vaccinated. In telling Hilleman’s story, Offit takes us around the globe and across time, from the days of Louis Pasteur, to today, when a childhood vaccine can protect women from cervical cancer and stop a deadly pandemic like Covid-19. Yet these preventative treatments have come under increasing attack from both the left and right, and the anti-vaxxer movement that began with false reports over autism is growing at an alarming rate, threatening society’s well-being, and especially those whose conditions prevent them from being vaccinated.
Offit makes an eloquent and compelling case for Hilleman’s importance, arguing that his name should be as well-known as Jonas Salk. Vaccinated reminds us of the value of vaccines and the power of science to save lives and protect our well-being.
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Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot?
- By: Andrea Grignolio
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.43(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThe dangerous decline in vaccinations in many developed countries is at the heart of a lively debate that confirms how important the subject is today. Vaccinations are among mankind’s most important scientific discoveries, yet they continue toThe dangerous decline in vaccinations in many developed countries is at the heart of a lively debate that confirms how important the subject is today. Vaccinations are among mankind’s most important scientific discoveries, yet they continue to be viewed with suspicion by part of the public–the victims of disinformation campaigns, instrumentalization, and unfounded fears. There is, however, also an evolutionary explanation for these irrational beliefs, and countering the growing social opposition will be extremely difficult without grasping it.
This audiobook, which sheds new light on the safety and importance of vaccinations, is intended both for parents and those listeners who want to understand the role of vaccinations in contemporary society, where the ease of access to knowledge is both a great opportunity and a great responsibility. The chapters follow a historical progression and conclude with a discussion of the most recent cognitive theories on how to overcome this opposition to vaccinations.
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Vivir con diabetes (Living With Diabetes)
- By: Juan Jose Murillo Moreno
- Narrator: Juan Jose Murillo Moreno
- Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 24, 2008
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDLa educacion sanitaria y la actitud del paciente diabetico constituyen una parte esencial del tratamiento de esta enfermedad. Es, por ello, sumamente importante que las personas diabeticas conozcan, con fundamento y veracidad, que es la diabetes yLa educacion sanitaria y la actitud del paciente diabetico constituyen una parte esencial del tratamiento de esta enfermedad. Es, por ello, sumamente importante que las personas diabeticas conozcan, con fundamento y veracidad, que es la diabetes y cual es su tratamiento, pero tambien que es lo que esta en su mano hacer para afrontarla y para llevar una vida saludable y feliz a pesar de todo. Vivir con diabetes es una guia que proporciona toda la informacion que precisan los enfermos y quienes con ellos se relacionan (familares y cuidadores). Su cualidad fundamental es que esta escrita desde el punto de vista del paciente. Por ello, ademas de tratar extensamente la faceta medica, tambien incorpora ese lado humano que ni el medico ni la medicina contemplan, como por ejemplo: como afrontar el proceso psicologico y emocional de la enfermedad, alteraciones del caracter, experiencias compartidas por los enfermos, el significado profundo de la enfermedad o como cuidar y apoyar al diabetico.
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Your Medical Mind
- By: Jerome Groopman
- Narrator: Linda Emond
- Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.83(558 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.95 USDCutting through the confusion caused by the healthcare system, the media, and gaps in our reasoning, the bestselling author of How Doctors Think gives listeners essential tools for making the medical decisions that best suit their ownCutting through the confusion caused by the healthcare system, the media, and gaps in our reasoning, the bestselling author of How Doctors Think gives listeners essential tools for making the medical decisions that best suit their own needs.
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“This important and riveting book could change–and perhaps even save–your life.”
–Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether we’re deciding to take a cholesterol drug or
choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors’ recommendations, dissenting expert opinions, confusing statistics, conflicting media reports, the advice of friends, claims on the Internet, and a never-ending stream of drug company ads. Your Medical Mind shows us how to chart a clear path through this sea of confusion.
Drs. Groopman and Hartzband reveal that each of us has a set of deeply rooted beliefs whose profound
influence we may not realize when we make medical decisions. How much trust we place in authority figures, in
statistics or in other patients’ stories, in technology or in natural healing, and whether we seek the most or the
least treatment–all are key factors that shape our choices. Recognizing our preferences and the external factors that might lead our thinking astray can make a dramatic, even lifesaving, difference in our medical decision making. When conflicting information pulls us back and forth between options, when we feel pressured by doctors or loved ones to make a particular choice, or when we have no previous experience to guide us through a crisis, Your Medical Mind will prove to be an essential companion.
The authors interviewed scores of patients and draw on research and insights from doctors, psychologists, economists, and other experts to help explain the array of forces that can aid or impede our
thinking. They show us the subtle strategies drug advertisers use to influence our choices. They unveil
the extreme–sometimes dangerously misleading–power of both narratives and statistics. And they
help us understand how to improve upon a universal human shortcoming–assessing the future impact
of the decisions we make now.
Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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