Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table audiobook runs 10.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Gordon Griffin (about 7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 10.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10.4 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 10,901 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Gordon Griffin
Gordon Griffin narrates 202 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,210 hours in all.
About as long, on the Medicine & Naturopathy shelf
1,026 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
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table is an audiobook by Stephen Westaby: a 10.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Gordon Griffin, released February 9, 2017, on the Medicine & Naturopathy and History & Culture shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gordon Griffin
- Released
- February 9, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Medicine & Naturopathy, History & Culture, Lessons in Philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780008196790
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table audiobook?
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table runs 10.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7 hours.
Is the Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table audiobook free?
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Who narrates Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table?
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table is narrated by Gordon Griffin.
Is Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7 hours, saving 3.5 hours.