Medicine audiobooks

ADHD Nation

By: Alan Schwarz

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—and how its unchecked growth has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society. “ADHD Nation should be required reading” (The New York Times Book Review).

More than one in... Read more

DNA

By: James D. Watson, Andrew Berry & Kevin Davies

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade.

James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's... Read more

The Other Side of Impossible

By: Susannah Meadows

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You’re faced with a difficult health condition. You have exhausted medicine’s answers. What do you do? Susannah Meadows tells the real-life stories of seven families who persisted when traditional medicine alone wasn’t enough.

Their adventures take us to the outer frontiers of medical science and cutting-edge complementary therapies, as Meadows... Read more

Mistreated

By: Robert Pearl

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The biggest problem in American health care is us

Do you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For... Read more

Vivir con diabetes

By: Juan Jose Murillo Moreno

Narrated by: George Bass

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

La educacion sanitaria y la actitud del paciente diabetico constituyen una parte esencial del tratamiento de esta enfermedad. Es, por ello, sumamente importante que las personas diabeticas conozcan, con fundamento y veracidad, que es la diabetes y cual es su tratamiento, pero tambien que es lo que esta en su mano hacer para afrontarla y para... Read more

The Youngest Science

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this partially autobiographical work, best-selling author Lewis Thomas offers insights on subjects as wide-ranging as gender differences, how it feels to be a patient, human vs. computer intelligence, the future of cancer research, and the longevity of the planet-interspersing all with charming anecdotes about his family, his colleagues and... Read more

Blue Dreams

By: Lauren Slater

Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs.

Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact... Read more

Prescription for the Future

By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

How can America's healthcare system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in healthcare matters more.

Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost care, and from their examples distills twelve... Read more

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

By: Mark Lukach

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a... Read more

Crooked

By: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Narrated by: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand—a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades—delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how to get on the road to recovery.In her effort to... Read more

Intuitive Eating, 3rd Edition

By: Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic bestseller about rejecting diet mentality and finding the natural weight that’s right for you, now fully updated and revised for the intuitive eaters of todayFirst published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. We’ve all been there—angry with ourselves for... Read more

Tell Me Where It Hurts

By: Nick Trout

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It all begins at 2:47 a.m. Then over one twenty-four-hour period, Dr. Trout fights for the life of a ten-year-old German shepherd, battles disease in the operating room, unravels tricky diagnoses, reassures frantic pet parents, and reflects on the humor, heartache, and inspiration in his life as an animal surgeon. And he wants to take you along... Read more

A Most Dangerous Method

By: John Kerr

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 22 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. In between them stood a young woman named... Read more

Rosemary

By: Kate Clifford Larson

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference.Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was... Read more

The End of Alzheimer's

By: Dale Bredesen

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline.
 
Everyone knows someone who has survived cancer, but until now no one knows anyone who has survived Alzheimer's Disease. 
 
In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to... Read more

Zapped

By: Ann Louise Gittleman

Narrated by: Angela Starling

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exposé of the hidden truths of electropollution, Zapped is the first comprehensive, step-by-step guide to counteracting the invisible hazards of everyday electromagnetic exposure. Award-winning author, nutritionist, and First for Women magazine columnist Ann Louise Gittleman combines the best of energy medicine with the latest... Read more

My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

By: Amy Silverstein

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein’s donor heart... Read more

Cannabis Pharmacy

By: Michael Backes

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The most comprehensive and approachable book available on understanding and using medical marijuana. Revised and updated with the latest information on varietals, delivery, dosing, and treatable conditions, Cannabis Pharmacy is "a well-designed and -illustrated and easy-to-use resource"(Booklist) for those considering medical marijuana as a... Read more

Healing Children

By: Kurt Newman, M.D.

Narrated by: Kurt Newman, M.D.

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Bestseller

An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National 

Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able... Read more

The China Study, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Here is the updated and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives.The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell University,... Read more

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

By: Danielle Ofri, MD

Narrated by: Ann M. Richardson

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?

Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly... Read more

The New Allergy Solution

By: Dr. Clifford Bassett

Narrated by: Ryan Gesell

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s top allergy doctors offers a revolutionary, full-body approach to diagnosing, preventing, and treating allergies—in many cases, for good.
 
 Millions of Americans currently suffer from allergies, and the rate is growing. Climate change, globalization, air pollution, and oversanitization of the environment in the early years of... Read more

The Big Picture

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of groundbreaking surgical procedures and a doctor who turns impossible hopes into joyous realities. But where does this incredible drive and focus come from? According to Dr. Carson himself, the answer is simple: The Big Picture.Every day when Dr. Carson went to work as a surgeon, he had to make... Read more

Best of Bryson City Tales

By: Walt Larimore, MD

Narrated by: Walt Larimore

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"We walked out onto a side porch, with woven-seat rocking chairs strewn across it, to look out at the hills that were literally ablaze with color--reds and yellows were painted across the promontories, with amber and orange hues specked the bluffs. The spectacular view all the way to the peak of the distant Frye Mountain reminded us of why so... Read more