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Audio book recommendations?

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  • MikM Offline
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    I have a free audiobook coming on Audible and looking for something spectacular.

    Ideas?

    "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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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.

      If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

      George KG 1 Reply Last reply
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        https://www.audible.com/pd/Lonesome-Dove-Audiobook/B07BGQ2ZQ3

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

          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.

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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.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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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 The Gene was just as engrossing.

            The one I’m on now, The Song of the Cell is more med-geeky than the other two.

            If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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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.

              If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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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.

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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.

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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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.

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                  @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.

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