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    • Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....

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    • By: Dorothy Wordsworth
    • Narrated by: Emma Fielding
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth's sister began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three years....

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    • A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Peter Canning
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A first responder to hundreds of overdoses throughout the rise of America's epidemic, Peter Canning tells stories of opioid overdose from a street-level vantage point....

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    • The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy, 2nd Edition
    • By: Bradley C. Birkenfeld
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • As a private banker working for the largest bank in the world, UBS, Bradley Birkenfeld was an expert in Switzerland's shell-game of offshore companies and secret numbered accounts. But when he discovered that UBS was planning to betray him, he blew the whistle to the US government....

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    • A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
    • By: Jon McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Known as one of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans plays host to incidents ranging from the tragic and disturbing to the completely bizarre - and during his career as an emergency medic, Jon McCarthy saw it all....

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    • Autism and Vaccines - The Truth Behind a Tragedy
    • By: Andrew Wakefield
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Andrew Wakefield reveals the the inside story of the vaccine-autism connection, and his controversial research....

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    • The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
    • By: Anthony Youn MD, Alan Eisenstock - contributor
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Michael Lewis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • The classic Michael Lewis book that defined an era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune, available for the first time unabridged and read by the author....

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    • True Tales of Mishaps, Emergencies, and Miracles from a Montana Physician
    • By: Ron Losee
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1949, Ron Losee, a young Yale Medical School graduate, headed west with his wife and small daughter to begin the practice of medicine....

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    • My story of making it in the mad, bad and fab pop music industry
    • By: Nicki Chapman
    • Narrated by: Nicki Chapman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Everyone knows that in the 90s and 00s there were king-makers in pop music, namely Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell. But this is the story of the queen.

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    • One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the true story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces of a brutalised generation....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • The Final Sentence
    • By: Dr Amanda Brown
    • Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Danger. Deportation. Death. These are just some of the fates facing the inmates at Huntercombe prison. Dr Amanda Brown is doing all she can for each patient stuck in no-man’s land....

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    • An NHS Paramedic's Selection of Humorous Mess Room Tales
    • By: Andy Thompson
    • Narrated by: Pete Nottage
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • In his The Dark Side series, Andy Thompson gives us a taste of the dark sense of humor paramedics use as a coping mechanism....

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    • Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul
    • By: Eleanor Herman
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today....

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    • A Paramedic's Story
    • By: Lysa Walder
    • Narrated by: Emma Carter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 642 ratings
    • Few people can imagine living in a world where scenes of tragedy, heroism, loss and horror are part of everyday life....

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    • Three Women Who Shook the Monarchy
    • By: Sarah Lyall
    • Narrated by: Sarah Lyall
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One was a married American socialite who embarked on a scandalous affair with the future king of England. Another was an aristocratic ingenue whose winsome charm captured the world’s imagination....

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