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A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare...

It’s a Darien, Connecticut, tradition: an emergency medical service managed by adolescents. One kid is a varsity soccer captain. There’s a future doctor, a band dork, a theater geek. Theirs is a view of town without the niceties. A drunken spouse turned violent. Lonely old people stuck in the bath. A midlife suicide. How do these kids process the sometimes shocking and violent life-and-death secrets of their community? The answer is a story of high stress and uncommon high school lives, told by a writer who spent his own youth on the night shift. Welcome to Post 53.

This audiobook explores the sentinel report by the Institute of Medicine: To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. The report estimated 98,000 Americans were dying each year due to medical errors. Since the report was released, annual deaths rose steadily to more than 440,000, which make deaths from medical errors the nation's third leading cause of death following cancer and heart failure. Prior investigations covered: How Many? Who? Where? What? and the economic and social costs of the continued increase of patient safety medical errors.