The Lassa Ward
One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
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Ross Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases. As an untried medical student studying the intersection of global health and communicable disease, Donaldson soon found himself in dangerous Sierra Leone, on the border of war-struck Liberia, where he struggled to control the spread of Lassa Fever. The words, "you know Lassa can kill you, don't you?" haunted him each day. With the country in complete upheaval and working conditions suffering, he is forced to make life-and-death decisions alone as a never-ending onslaught of contagious patients flood the hospital. Soon however, he is not only fighting for others but himself when he becomes afflicted with a life threatening disease.
The Lassa Ward is more than just an adventure story about the making of a physician; it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the human struggle of those risking their daily comforts and lives to aid them.
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- De N. Thomas en 02-13-20
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,034
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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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Early
- An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human
- De: Sarah DiGregorio
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
The heart of many hospitals is the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It is a place where humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways as parents, doctors, and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions: When does life begin? When and how should life end? And what does it mean to be human? Nearly 20 years ago, Dr. John D. Lantos wrote The Lazarus Case, a seminal work on ethical dilemmas in neonatology. He described the NICU as “a strong, strange, powerful place”. The
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping read for this late preterm infant mom
- De R. Ash en 08-08-21
De: Sarah DiGregorio
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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
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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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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Patient Care
- Death and Life in the Emergency Room
- De: Paul Seward MD
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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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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Inferno
- A Doctor's Ebola Story
- De: Steven Hatch MD
- Narrado por: Steven Hatch MD
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good story, spoiled by politics.
- De Roman Vogel en 07-22-17
De: Steven Hatch MD
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29,424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25,834
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25,769
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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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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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Healing Hearts
- A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
- De: Kathy Magliato
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group - those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a wife and mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Healing Hearts
- De Jean en 01-14-12
De: Kathy Magliato
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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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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Beating Back the Devil
- De: Maryn McKenna
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
The universal instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease. These doctors run toward it. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than 24 hours before they are dispatched. They are told only their country of destination and the epidemic they will tackle when they get there.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Stuff - Only criticism is pacing
- De Tim en 07-23-05
De: Maryn McKenna
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,616
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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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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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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 159
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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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Heart
- A History
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- De: Anne Fadiman
- Narrado por: Pamela Xiong
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,793
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,790
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- De Kate en 06-04-15
De: Anne Fadiman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Lassa Ward
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- Michael Curran
- 04-16-21
Thanks for sharing your experience
Dr. Donaldson, I want to thank you for your courage and vulnerability that you shared in this book. Your patients will benefit from this humbling experience!
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- AW122
- 09-20-21
Colonialism meets shameless self promotion
If you are looking for a story about a young medical student who gains insight into Lassa fever and medicine in general, look elsewhere. The author seems genuinely unaware that calling the native people uneducated and dirty is problematic at best. He hardly describes the actual pathology of Lassa, rambling instead about how he was so willing to put himself in danger for the good of those poor people. ALSO, HE NEVER CONTACTED LASSA FEVER. So bad it made me angry.
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