Audio book recommendations?
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In late December I re-listened to “The Emperor of All Maladies” and this month already finished his second and am almost done with the third.
Check it out and read some reviews. I think you’d like it.
@jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:
In late December I re-listened to “The Emperor of All Maladies” and this month already finished his second and am almost done with the third.
Check it out and read some reviews. I think you’d like it.
Yes, I'm only about a third of the way through it. It's entertaining (in a historical way), engrossing and enlightening. Very readable and not "med-geeky" at all.
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@jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:
In late December I re-listened to “The Emperor of All Maladies” and this month already finished his second and am almost done with the third.
Check it out and read some reviews. I think you’d like it.
Yes, I'm only about a third of the way through it. It's entertaining (in a historical way), engrossing and enlightening. Very readable and not "med-geeky" at all.
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@George-K I like how wide ranging it is. Historic medical detail, lots of policy stuff. A totally engrossing chapter on the political and scientific battle over declaring cigarette a carcinogen.
@jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:
@George-K I like how wide ranging it is. Historic medical detail, lots of policy stuff. A totally engrossing chapter on the political and scientific battle over declaring cigarette a carcinogen.
Haven't gotten there, only up to the radiation treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, what I find interesting (disturbing?) is that this "history" is coming close to my birth in the medical profession. I'm up to the late 1960s in the "biography" and I started medical school in 1972. All the names of the drugs are familiar to me, and I remember when many of them were "new" when I was an intern in 1976.
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@jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:
@George-K I like how wide ranging it is. Historic medical detail, lots of policy stuff. A totally engrossing chapter on the political and scientific battle over declaring cigarette a carcinogen.
Haven't gotten there, only up to the radiation treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, what I find interesting (disturbing?) is that this "history" is coming close to my birth in the medical profession. I'm up to the late 1960s in the "biography" and I started medical school in 1972. All the names of the drugs are familiar to me, and I remember when many of them were "new" when I was an intern in 1976.
@George-K said in Audio book recommendations?:. All the names of the drugs are familiar to me, and I remember when many of them were "new" when I was an intern in 1976.
I started at the National Cancer Institute in 1976, and yes, I knew a lot of the people involved as well as the controversies. Excellent book.
