Medicine audiobooks

*Hope Prevails

By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Neuropsychologist Offers Hope to Those Struggling with Depression As a board-certified neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Bengtson sees the devastation of depression. Early on, she practiced the most effective treatments and prescribed them for her clients. But when she experienced depression herself, she found that the treatments she had... Read more

Lessons from a Hospital Bed

By: John Piper

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Physical sickness affects more than just our bodies; it takes a toll on our emotional and spiritual health as well. In this honest book, best-selling author John Piper shares ten lessons he learned while in the hospital. Written to help those in the hospital focus their attention on God, his grace, and his plan—when such focus can be especially... Read more

Notes on Nursing

By: Florence Nightingale

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Notes on Nursing is a classic by Florence Nightingale (the first modern nurse). Florence Nightingale's methods were revolutionary in her time, and they form the basis for the techniques of patient management that have been taught ever since. Notes on Nursing is a great overview, in her own words, of Florence Nightingale's ideas on care,... Read more

No Place to Hide

By: W. Lee Warren

Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold & Chip Arnold

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital.Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the U.S. Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he traded a comfortable, if... Read more

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

By: Elizabeth Ford

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City’s jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital... Read more

The Danger Within Us

By: Jeanne Lenzer

Narrated by: Jeanne Lenzer

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know...

Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.

An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.

The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.

In The Danger... Read more

The Leafly Guide to Cannabis

By: The Leafly Team

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A savvy connoisseur's guide from the editors of the world's most popular cannabis platform.

Cannabis is at the very beginning of a craft and educational renaissance. It is emerging from the legislative shadows and a second awakening is occurring: people are proactively seeking information about how to properly consume and enjoy it.

And cannabis... Read more

Cannabis for Chronic Pain

By: Rav Ivker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The first authoritative and comprehensive guide for treating chronic pain with medical marijuana from a holistic family physician who has treated more than six thousand chronic pain patients with cannabis.

While the number of patients using medical marijuana increases every year, misconceptions about cannabis and whether it’s harmful or dangerous... Read more

Undoctored

By: William Davis

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Conventional health care is no longer working in your favor―but thankfully, Dr. Davis is.In his New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis changed the lives of millions of people by teaching them to remove grains from their diets to reverse years of chronic health damage. In Undoctored, he goes beyond cutting grains to help you... Read more

Managing the Myths of Health Care

By: Henry Mintzberg

Narrated by: Tom Kruse

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”

In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of... Read more

No Apparent Distress

By: Rachel Pearson

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at riskIn medical charts, the term “N.A.D.” (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America’s medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of... Read more

Into the Gray Zone

By: Adrian Owen

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us about the working of our own brains.

“Vivid, emotional, and thought-provoking”... Read more

Everything Happens for a Reason

By: Kate Bowler

Narrated by: Kate Bowler

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi

“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being... Read more

The New Bible Cure for Weight Loss

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The natural way to lasting weight loss!

Reclaim control over your spiritual, emotional, and physical health, and lose weight today. Incorporating the latest medical findings with the timeless wisdom of the Bible, The New Bible Cure for Weight Loss provides powerful tools and findings that your own doctor never may have told you, including…

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Because We Are Bad

By: Lily Bailey

Narrated by: Lily Bailey

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a... Read more

Rebuild

By: Robert Zembroski

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A diagnosis should not be your destiny. In Rebuild, specialist in functional medicine and cancer victor, Dr. Robert Zembroski, gives you a blueprint to recover from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic health issues, and be fitter, leaner, and healthier than you ever were before.After conquering a life-threatening disease, Dr.... Read more

Truth Doesn't Have a Side

By: Dr. Bennet Omalu

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

One day in 2002 the fifty-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster’s body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death were clouded in mystery. But when Omalu cut into... Read more

Self Comes to Mind

By: Antonio Damasio

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The arrival of neurons and their unique ability to transmit and receive messages was the radical break in the course of the human brain’s evolution. This led to the development of the self. Neurons organize themselves in complex circuits and networks. Networks that serve to represent events occurring in the body, influence the function of other... Read more

Clean

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. The existing treatment... Read more

Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand

By: Anne-Dauphine Julliand

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Thaïs is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.A true tale told by a mother, it’s the... Read more

Cancerland

By: David Scadden & Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: David Scadden & Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A doctor’s riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer.

What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face the unknown, to enter a world of hope, loss, and dread?

From the diagnosis of his childhood friend’s mother to his poignant memories in the lab, David Scadden’s seen the unknown world of cancer from the lens of a young... Read more

The Encore

By: Charity Tillemann-Dick

Narrated by: Charity Tillemann-Dick

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “heartrending, passionate, and surprisingly humorous account of the conjunction between art and death” (Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author), acclaimed opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick recounts her remarkable journey from struggling to draw a single breath to singing at the most prestigious venues in the world after... Read more

At Peace

By: Samuel Harrington

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population.

Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly... Read more

Suffering the Silence

By: Allie Cashel

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for sixteen years—but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called post-treatment Lyme syndrome, featuring the... Read more