Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End audiobook runs 9 hours unabridged, narrated by Robert Petkoff (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 9 hours, it runs longer than 77% of the 5,775 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.
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Robert Petkoff narrates 154 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,719 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Medicine & Naturopathy shelf
713 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is an audiobook by Atul Gawande: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by Robert Petkoff, released October 7, 2014, on the Medicine & Naturopathy and Social Science shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Robert Petkoff
- Released
- October 7, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Medicine & Naturopathy, Social Science, Thought-Provoking Listens
- ISBN
- 9781427244246
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How long is the Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End audiobook?
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
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Who narrates Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End?
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is narrated by Robert Petkoff.