Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance audiobook runs 7.6 hours unabridged, narrated by John Bedford Lloyd (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.6 hours, it runs longer than 68% of the 10,901 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by John Bedford Lloyd
John Bedford Lloyd narrates 59 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 674 hours in all.
About as long, on the Medicine & Naturopathy shelf
1,349 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance is an audiobook by Atul Gawande: a 7.6-hour unabridged recording, read by John Bedford Lloyd, released April 3, 2007, on the Disorders & Diseases and Medicine & Naturopathy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Bedford Lloyd
- Released
- April 3, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Disorders & Diseases, Medicine & Naturopathy
- ISBN
- 9781427200990
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance audiobook?
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance runs 7.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
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Who narrates Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance?
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance is narrated by John Bedford Lloyd.