EPISODE · Aug 25, 2020 · 30 MIN
A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey by Craig A. Miller
from Download Top Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture · host Alexis Willms
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey Author: Craig A. Miller Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey Author: Craig A. Miller Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.
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