White Coat Ways

A History of Medical Traditions and Their Battle with Progress

By: Brian Elliott

Narrated by: Brian Elliott

White coats, Hippocratic oaths, medicine as a calling–are these beneficial practices or harmful rituals? White Coat Ways traces seven medical traditions from their historical origins to their contemporary issues. Tracing these origins through common misconceptions–who really wrote the Hippocratic oath, are hospitals nonprofit–empowers the listener to approach contemporary controversies accurately.

The stories along the way provide an intertwining history of foundational figures like Hippocrates, Joseph Lister, and Renee Laennec to downright bizarre stories of extraordinary mathematicians and goat testicle implantation.

©2023 Brian Elliott (P)2023 Brian Elliott

Interesting view into the medical industry

This book provides an interesting and educational journey into the medical world while enabling non-medical individuals such as myself an accessible understanding. The author/narrator's evident passion shines through, creating an enjoyable experience into some of the paradigms in the medical world, such as the white coat and saline, that I would have never been exposed to before with it. I am eager for more work on the topic!

monotoned & mildly interesting

the first chapter was interesting, the rest was "meh". having lived through the training of general surgeons to perform laparoscopic cholecystectomies, the telling of this surgical transformation was very superficial. The narration was simply awful, monotoned, uninterested, unenthusiastic, just awful. The stories were minimally interesting, but the narration destroyed any hope of making them more so.