Medicine audiobooks

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

The Magnificent Obsession

By: Anne Graham Lotz

Narrated by: Anne Graham Lotz

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If you or someone close to you is devoted to their church but still struggles to find meaning and passion in their faith; who loves their family, works hard, contributes to their community, but still feels life is somehow incomplete and hollow at the core; who is restless in spirit, with a nagging sense that there must be something more . .... Read more

Gifted Hands

By: Ben Carson, M.D. & Cecil Murphey

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more

Ice Bound

By: Jerri Nielsen

Narrated by: Jerri Nielsen

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her... Read more

Health Care Reform Now!

By: George Halvorson

Narrated by: John J. Nance

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system. In this book George Halvorson... Read more

Brotherhood

By: Deepak Chopra & Sanjiv Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Sanjiv Chopra

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Brotherhood, Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra reveal the story of their personal struggles and triumphs as doctors, immigrants, and brothers. They were born in the ferment of liberated India after 1947, as an age-old culture was reinventing its future. For the young, this meant looking to the West. The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and... Read more

Irritable Hearts

By: Mac McClelland

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland left Haiti after covering the lingering devastation of the earthquake. Back home, McClelland finds herself imagining vivid scenes of violence. She can’t sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, triggered by her trip and seemingly exacerbated by... Read more

The Ghost in My Brain

By: Clark Elliott, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas.In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a... Read more

Slow Medicine

By: Victoria Sweet

Narrated by: Victoria Sweet

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review
 
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of... Read more

Gorilla and the Bird

By: Zack McDermott

Narrated by: Zack McDermott

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath." -- Marya Hornbacher, New York Times Book Review

Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old... Read more

Immortal Bird

By: Doron Weber

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Doron Weber delivers an affecting, unforgettable account of his struggle to protect his remarkable son. Born with a congenital heart defect, Damon Weber proves a source of constant inspiration to his parents even as his father Doron searches relentlessly for a breakthrough to resolve a condition that seems destined to claim Damon's life. Living... Read more

Attending

By: Ronald Epstein

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With his “deeply informed and compassionate book…Dr. Epstein tells us that it is a ‘moral imperative’ [for doctors] to do right by their patients” (New York Journal of Books).

The first book for the general public about the importance of mindfulness in medical practice, Attending is a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors approach... Read more

The Whole Brain

By: Raphael Kellman

Narrated by: Hayward Morse

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, medication-free, scientifically based approach to healing depression, anxiety, and brain fog by focusing on your "whole brain" -- the brain, the gut, the microbiome, and the thyroid

There is a fundamental connection between the brain, the gut, the microbiome, and the thyroid: if any one part of this system is malfunctioning, it... Read more

Pale Rider

By: Laura Spinney

Narrated by: Paul Hodgson

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history.
The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a... Read more

The Alzheimer's Solution

By: Dean Sherzai & Ayesha Sherzai

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary, proven program to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and reverse the symptoms of cognitive decline, from two award-winning neurologists—the co-directors of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.Alzheimer’s disease is devastating, and increasingly widespread. More than forty-seven... Read more

Lay Down Your Guns

By: Greg R. Taylor

Narrated by: Zilah Mendoza

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In Honduras’ “wild west” mountain jungles, Amanda Madrid found her calling as a medical doctor to poor farmers.When Amanda’s father rejects her dream to be a doctor, eighteen-year-old Amanda strikes out alone and enters medical school in Tegucigalpa.Her work as a medical officer, public health consultant, and director of an international... Read more

Communist Daze

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet village awash in gray buildings and ramshackle fences, a home to a large, collective farm and to the most oddball and endearing cast of characters possible.For three years in the 1960s, Vladimir Tsesis―inestimable Soviet doctor and irrepressible jester―was stationed in a village where racing tractor drivers tossed... Read more

In Pursuit of Memory

By: Joseph Jebelli

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases -- Alzheimer's -- from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure.

Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions... Read more

From Alzheimer’s with Love

By: Marc Swift

Narrated by: Marc Swift

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Marc’s family was devastated by his father’s third year of Alzheimer’s disease. From Alzheimer’s, with Love is the true life story of a 6-month journey from deterioration to restoration from this disease. Discover how Marc developed a system to help his father escape the prison of his isolation and reconnect with his loved ones.Outsmart the... Read more

Dancing with Elephants

By: Jarem Sawatsky

Narrated by: Jarem Sawatsky

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

If you need some encouragement in living with joy, read this book. It will change your perspective on everything. —Lana PhilipsSawatsky beautifully models a way to dance in the gale of full catastrophe, to celebrate life, to laugh with it and at himself. —Jon Kabat-Zinn, national bestselling author...beautiful and inspiring book...full of humor... Read more

The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women

By: Barbara Seaman

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For over 40 years Barbara Seaman has been a leading women's health advocate. Now she blows the lid off the estrogen industry in this fascinating book that holds the power to improve-possibly even save-women's lives. In America 30 million women take estrogen. Seaman shows that this powerful hormone is hardly the cure-all some claim it is. In... Read more

Hay una respuesta

By: Luis Cortes

Narrated by: George Bass

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El VIH y el SIDA son temas que asustan. No solo pueden destruir un cuerpo, sino que tambien pueden destruir una familia, las amistades y hasta una comunidad. A nadie le gusta hablar de eso, pero ignorar el problema no hara que este desaparezca. La unica manera en que podremos superar esta enfermedad es a traves de la educacion, la precaucion y... Read more

Inferno

By: Steven Hatch

Narrated by: Steven Hatch

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A first-hand account of the Ebola epidemic by an American doctor who has been featured on the front page of the New York Times.Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and... Read more

Well

By: Sarah Thebarge

Narrated by: Sarah Thebarge

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah The barge ponders the intersection of faith and medicine in this insightful narrative of her medical mission trip to Togo, West Africa.

Sarah The barge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age twenty-seven, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling to medical missions in Africa. Risking her own... Read more