19 must-read audiobook books like The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher

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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

By: Thomas Fisher

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In oth… read more

Similar categories in Frank T. Vertosick Jr.'s When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

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2. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege

By: Robert Meyer MD

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With this debut, emergency room doctor Meyer collaborates with journalist Koeppel to tell a persona… read more

Similar categories in Robert Meyer MD's Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

Similar categories in Farzon A. Nahvi's Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

Similar categories in Ricardo Nuila's The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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6. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

By: Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more

Similar categories in Stephen M. Cohn's All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

Similar categories in J. Thomas Grant's The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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8. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

By: Thomas Fisher

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

Similar categories in Amy Bloom's In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

Similar categories in Jay Wellons's All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. Cost of Living: Essays

By: Emily Maloney

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exa… read more

Similar categories in Emily Maloney's Cost of Living: Essays book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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13. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room

By: Paul Seward

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A boy is pulled from a river and brought back to life: Will he be the same child he was? A priest o… read more

Similar categories in Paul Seward's Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis

By: Samantha Montano

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Montano's Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
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16. Three Girls from Bronzeville

By: Dawn Turner

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and h… read more

Similar categories in Dawn Turner's Three Girls from Bronzeville book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown

17. Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

By: Theresa Brown

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world … read more

Similar categories in Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic

By: Anthony Almojera

3.84

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Almojera's Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. An American Summer

By: Alex Kotlowitz

4.33

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait… read more

Similar categories in Alex Kotlowitz's An American Summer book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"There are so many . . . who carry the violence, who keep moving forward enshrouded in its aftermath. Yet there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency, especially among the rest of us."

-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer

". . .you can't talk about death without celebrating life. How amid the devastation, many still manage to stay erect in a world that's slumping around them. How despite the bloodshed, some manage, her…"

-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer

"The shooting doesn't end. Nor does the grinding poverty. Or the deeply rooted segregation. Or the easy availability of guns. Or the shuttered schools and boarded-up homes. Or the tensions between pol…"

-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer

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20. OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Go behind the scenes inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where goo… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine by Frank Huyler

21. White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

By: Frank Huyler

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author… read more

Similar categories in Frank Huyler's White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine book and Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5 best-selling history books like The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher

Transform Your Habits

Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege

Robert Meyer MD

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

Thomas Fisher

3.92

Transform Your Habits

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Transform Your Habits

An American Summer

Alex Kotlowitz

4.33

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9 Top audiobook books like Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room by Paul Seward

Transform Your Habits

Under the Lake

Stuart Woods

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

Elizabeth Berg

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

Cory Franklin

3.57

Transform Your Habits

All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

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