Medicine audiobooks

The Perpetual Now

By: Michael D. Lemonick

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has... Read more

The Hospital Always Wins

By: Issa Ibrahim

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Issa Ibrahim’s memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to a horrific family tragedy, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years.Raised in an idyllic creative environment, mom and dad cultivating his talent, Issa watches his family’s... Read more

An American Sickness

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR

"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene

At a moment of drastic... Read more

Deadliest Enemy

By: Mark Olshaker & Michael T. Osterholm

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.

Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period... Read more

The Next Pandemic

By: Dr. Ali S Khan & William Patrick

Narrated by: Ben Sullivan

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.
Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but... Read more

Mirror Touch

By: Joel Salinas

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A doctor with a rare—seemingly superhuman—neurological trait takes us on a compelling tour deep into the human brain in this blend of memoir and scientific exploration that combines the compassionate wisdom of Oliver Sacks and the personal revelations of Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight.Dr. Joel Salinas is a Harvard-trained researcher... Read more

Mind Over Meds

By: Andrew Weil

Narrated by: Andrew Weil

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives.

Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past 50 years, and over-the-counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take to treat serious illnesses, we take drugs to help us... Read more

The Evil Hours

By: David J. Morris

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as polio loomed over the 1950s and AIDS stalked the 1980s and 1990s, post-traumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States' "global war on terror," PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict's veterans. But the disorder's reach extends far beyond the armed... Read more

The Soul of All Living Creatures

By: Vint Virga, DVM

Narrated by: Vint Virga, DVM

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired... Read more

Beyond Addiction

By: Jeffrey Foote, PhD, Carrie Wilkens, Ph.D., Nico...

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help their loved ones change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical... Read more

How God Changes Your Brain

By: Andrew Newberg, MD & Mark Robert Waldman

Narrated by: James C. Lewis

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

God is great—for your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies and a wide-reaching survey of people's religious and spiritual experiences, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, MD, and therapist Mark Robert Waldman offer the following breakthrough discoveries:
Not only do prayer and spiritual... Read more

One Doctor

By: Brendan Reilly, MD

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri­can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physi­cian. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustra­tions, Reilly must deal with several daunting challenges... Read more

Extreme Medicine

By: Kevin Fong, MD

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world's environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it... Read more

Gulp

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food... Read more

God's Hotel

By: Victoria Sweet

Narrated by: Victoria Sweet

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria... Read more

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

By: Eric Topol, MD

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of... Read more

Who's in Charge?

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful orthodoxy in the study of the brain has taken hold in
recent years: Since physical laws govern the physical world and our own brains are part of that world, physical laws therefore govern our
behavior and even our conscious selves. Free will is meaningless, goes
the mantra; we live in a "determined" world.

Not so, argues the renowned... Read more

The Viral Storm

By: Nathan Wolfe

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic.



Wolfe's research missions... Read more

The Concussion Crisis

By: Linda Carroll & David Rosner

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For far too long, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic and its consequences out of the shadows.



As frightening... Read more

Ask Me Why I Hurt

By: Randy Christensen, M.D. & Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way, Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has... Read more

Ever By My Side

By: Nick Trout

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Nick Trout has captivated audiences with his books that take us behind the scenes into the heartwarming—and sometimes heartrending—world of veterinary medicine. In a perfect follow-up to his first two books, he turns his lens inward and offers a funny, moving, and thoughtful, memoir about the animals he's had... Read more

The Tell-Tale Brain

By: V. S. Ramachandran

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field—so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain... Read more

I Shall Not Hate

By: Izzeldin Abuelaish

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish—now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"—captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece.



By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is... Read more

The Panic Virus

By: Seth Mnookin

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Panic Virus is a gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time. It explores what happens when the media treats all viewpoints as equally valid, regardless of facts, from parents who are convinced that vaccines caused... Read more