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Robert Adams MD
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These stories from the life and medical career of a Navy SEAL turned doctor are surprising, riveting, and inspiring. A family physician delivering babies, managing disease and trauma, and dealing with death, discovers new dimensions when he goes to war in Iraq. Treating the military, civilians, and their families, "Dr. Bob" experienced tremendous joy, unbearable heartache, and deep gratitude. He shares those emotional experiences in this deeply personal memoir.
If you want to be a doctor...If you wonder how physicians learn their craft...If you crave a glimpse into the rapidly changing world of medicine, then these adventures are for you.
Some make you laugh; others make you cry. All provide insight into the challenges faced by a caring family practice doctor devoted to sharing these struggles and elations as his patients fight to live well in a dangerous world. These are medical adventures you will never forget.
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Recalling remarkable cases - and people - from a career launched in the first days of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Paul Seward leads us in his memoir through suspenseful diagnoses and explorations of anatomy. Within the conditions of great stress and rapid decision-making that are routine in the ER, Dr. Seward tells us that medical staff must be more than technicians of the body: They must be restorers of the human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very enjoyable
- De Patricia Oxenham en 03-21-19
De: Paul Seward MD
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One Doctor
- Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
- De: Brendan Reilly
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,030
An epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Brilliant
- De Blue en 06-20-14
De: Brendan Reilly
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Confessions of a Surgeon
- The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
- De: Paul A. Ruggieri MD
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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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 OR 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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed the anecdotes!
- De suzanne en 07-31-17
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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell
- A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam
- De: Barbara Hesselman Kautz MSN RN
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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When she was 18, she joined the army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this
- De N. Thomas en 02-13-20
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Critical Care
- A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
- De: Theresa Brown
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
In her former career as an English professor, Theresa Brown had been shielded from the harsh reality of death. That all changed the day she decided to become an oncology nurse. In Critical Care, Theresa writes powerfully and honestly about her first year on the hospital floor. With great compassion and a disarming sense of humor, she shares the trials and triumphs of her patients and comes to realize that caring for a patient means much more than simply treating a disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent all the way around!
- De Susan en 10-12-17
De: Theresa Brown
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Doctored
- The Disillusionment of an American Physician
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Sandeep Jauhar, an attending cardiologist, accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade's worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights. Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Doctors' morale is low and getting lower.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frank, inside perspective on the follies of unintended consequences in medical reform
- De JW en 02-25-18
De: Sandeep Jauhar
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God's Hotel
- A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- De: Victoria Sweet
- Narrado por: Victoria Sweet
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 368
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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 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De kayla solomon en 04-08-17
De: Victoria Sweet
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On Call in the Arctic
- A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier
- De: Thomas J. Sims
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 157
Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments - Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the army to serve as a MASH surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the US Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was scheduled to act as chief of pediatrics at the Alaska Native Medical Center.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Great Narrator
- De Katie Lamb en 02-18-20
De: Thomas J. Sims
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Your Heart, My Hands
- An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons
- De: Arun K. Singh MD, John Hanc - contributor, Delos Cosgrove MD - foreword
- Narrado por: Shridhar Solanki
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a 20-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream. Faced with an entirely new culture, racism, and the lasting effects of disabling childhood injuries, through hard work and perseverance he overcame all odds. Now having performed over 15,000 open-heart surgeries, more than nearly every surgeon in history, Dr. Singh reflects on his most memorable patients and his incredible personal life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From Dyslexia and Crushed Hands Rise Greatness
- De Bailey Rose en 02-02-25
De: Arun K. Singh MD, y otros
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When Breath Becomes Air
- De: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25,832
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25,767
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal book!
- De A. Potter en 01-16-16
De: Paul Kalanithi, y otros
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Confessions of a GP
- De: Benjamin Daniels
- Narrado por: Eamonn Riley
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable
- De PCF en 05-27-17
De: Benjamin Daniels
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Heart
- A History
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Insight
- De Ironcharles en 10-27-18
De: Sandeep Jauhar
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How Doctors Think
- De: Jerome Groopman M.D.
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within 12 seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong: with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Audiophile en 05-13-07
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A Seaside Practice
- Tales of a Scottish Country Doctor
- De: Dr Tom Smith
- Narrado por: Dr Tom Smith
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 310
Heartwarming and gloriously eccentric, Dr Tom's stories capture the beauty of the Lowlands, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants and the richly rewarding experiences of life as a Scottish country doctor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging Memoir
- De Jean en 10-16-17
De: Dr Tom Smith
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White Hot Light
- Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine
- De: Frank Huyler
- Narrado por: Gary Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic. Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenches—this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor’s edge between life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Better than The Blood of Strangers
- De Elizabeth Darcy en 10-14-20
De: Frank Huyler
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Do No Harm
- Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
- De: Henry Marsh
- Narrado por: Jim Barclay
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,465
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,464
With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Uneven
- De Scott en 06-02-15
De: Henry Marsh
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Last Night in the OR
- A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
- De: Bud Shaw
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, MD, who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Expect alot of bad language!
- De Lynn L. en 08-10-16
De: Bud Shaw
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Swords and Saints
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- Craftsman51
- 09-24-20
A Great Story and A Must Read
Swords and Saints is a truly wonderful story of a Warrior and Physician. Dr Bob Adams took a very unconventional path to becoming an Army Physician and the book tells a very personal story of that journey for both he and his family. A great read and well worth your time.
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- TXSharon
- 09-08-24
Fascinating personal story and doctor with good soul
We need more doctors like Mr. Adams who love to help people with good heart. Sad to see money is the main driver in nowadays healthcare industry.
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