Medicine audiobooks

My Patients and Other Animals

By: Suzy Fincham-Gray

Narrated by: Suzy Fincham-Gray

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving memoir of a life spent in the company of animals—a veterinarian sheds light on the universal experience of loving, healing, and losing our beloved pets, and the many ways they change our lives.
 
The pursuit of a childhood dream has taken Suzy Fincham-Gray on a journey in veterinary medicine from pastoral farms on the English–Welsh border... Read more

Admissions

By: Henry Marsh

Narrated by: Henry Marsh

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

An International Bestseller

"Consistently entertaining...Honesty is abundantly apparent here--a quality as rare and commendable in elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists." —The Guardian

"Disarmingly frank storytelling...his reflections on death and dying equal those in Atul Gawande's excellent Being... Read more

Gray Matter

By: David I. Levy & Joel Kilpatrick

Narrated by: Larry Wayne

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy’s decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.Each chapter focuses on a specific case,... Read more

The Hope Circuit

By: Martin E. P. Seligman

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone.

When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past trauma creates present symptoms. Today, thanks in large... Read more

Empty Hands, A Memoir

By: Sister Abegail Ntleko

Narrated by: Julisa Rowe

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in... Read more

Why Gender Matters

By: Leonard Sax

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the classic book about innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids.Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in... Read more

The Beauty of Dirty Skin

By: Whitney Bowe

Narrated by: Whitney Bowe & Lauren Ruff

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally renowned dermatologist and research scientist Dr. Whitney Bowe presents, for the first time, the connection between a healthy gut and radiant, clear skin, with a 21-day program to maximize skin health and beauty.

Every year, nearly 80 million Americans will consult their doctors about their skin. In fact, skin disorders beat out... Read more

In My Hands

By: Steven A. Curley

Narrated by: Steven A. Curley

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In In My Hands, surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Curley shares the empowering lessons he's learned over 25 years from his cancer patients' unique stories of struggle, perseverance, and triumph.

As Chief of Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Steven Curley has worked with cancer patients for over two decades. While his life's work... Read more

The Little Book of Lykke

By: Meik Wiking

Narrated by: Meik Wiking

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the happiness revolution! The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge offers more inspiration and suggestions for achieving greater happiness, by practicing Lykke (LOO-ka)—pursuing and finding the good that exists in the world around us every day.While the Danes are the happiest people on the planet, happiness isn’t... Read more

The Pleasure Shock

By: Lone Frank

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulation

The technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath in the 1950s and '60s has been described as among the most controversial experiments in US history. His... Read more

Food Can Fix It

By: Mehmet Oz

Narrated by: Mehmet Oz

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Mehmet Oz, MD, America’s #1 authority on health and well-being, explains how to harness the healing power of food in this “informative, accessible book filled with anecdotes, science, recipes, and guidelines for cooking, shopping, and eating out” (Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zone Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest... Read more

Chasing Hope

By: Richard M. Cohen

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen, Richard M. Cohen & Meredith V...

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.

Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs. After enduring... Read more

The Lyme Solution

By: Darin Ingels

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive, natural approach to treating acute and chronic Lyme disease, from a leading naturopathic physician who has managed his symptoms for more than fifteen years.

Lyme disease is one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in the United States, and millions of people worldwide suffer from its shape-shifting symptoms. Now, in The... Read more

The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

By: Douglas A. Riley

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-needed tool that parents of children with O.D.D. can use to identify the source of this turmoil and take back parental control. Dr. Douglas Riley teaches parents how to recognize the signs, understand the attitudes, and modify the behavior of their oppositional child. Read more

The Fear Factor

By: Abigail Marsh

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "compelling scientific detective story," a leading neuroscientist looks for the nature of human kindness in the brains of heroes and psychopaths (Wall Street Journal).

At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for gifts. She used the tools she had available... Read more

Unthinkable

By: Helen Thomson

Narrated by: Helen Thomson

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A prizewinning journalist with a background in neuroscience, Helen Thomson spent years tracking down people who live with the world's most extraordinary neurological disorders—like a man who tried to break his back because his legs no longer felt like his own, and another who believed that he was dead for nine years. Not content to simply read... Read more

CLEAN 7

By: Alejandro Junger

Narrated by: Alejandro Junger

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling doctor and author of Clean shows us that it doesn’t matter where you live, how old you are, or what symptoms you suffer from, in 7 days you can change the course of your health forever.The culmination of over thirty years of research, education, and practice, Dr. Alejandro Junger’s revolutionary, seven-day program... Read more

Healing Lyme Disease Naturally

By: Wolf D. Storl

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Healing Lyme Disease Naturally, anthropologist Wolf D. Storl shares his own success in overcoming a difficult, sometimes deadly disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. When he was diagnosed, Dr. Storl refused standard treatments because of antibiotic intolerance. Instead, he researched healing systems of various cultures including... Read more

In Shock

By: Dr. Rana Awdish

Narrated by: Dr. Rana Awdish & Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe New York Times Book Review: "Awdish's book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and stethoscopes...dramatic, engaging and instructive."A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of... Read more

The Infertility Cure

By: Randine Lewis

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Infertility Cure, Dr. Lewis outlines her simple guidelines involving diet, herbs, and acupressure so that you can make use of her experience and expertise to create a nurturing, welcoming environment for a healthy baby.

Dr. Randine Lewis offers you a natural way to support your efforts to get pregnant.

The Infertility Cure addresses:... Read more

Singular Intimacies

By: Danielle Ofri, MD

Narrated by: Ann M. Richardson

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat)

Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and... Read more

Ticker

By: Mimi Swartz

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature’s greatest... Read more

The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars

By: Paul Broks

Narrated by: Simon Bubb

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human.
 
The Darker the Night,... Read more

The Language of Kindness

By: Christie Watson

Narrated by: Christie Watson

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit... Read more