Medicine audiobooks

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

Surviving the Extremes

By: Kenneth Kamler, MD

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them?



Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some... Read more

Counting Backwards

By: Henry Jay Przybylo, MD

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is a source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo—an anesthesiologist with more than thirty years of experience—has written an unforgettable account of the routine procedure's daily dramas and fundamental mysteries. Przybylo has... 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

The Secret Life of the Mind

By: Mariano Sigman, , PhD

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions. Drawing on research in physics,... 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

In-Between Days

By: Teva Harrison

Narrated by: Teva Harrison

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease.... Read more

Get Yourself Back in Motion

By: Jason T Smith

Narrated by: Jason T Smith

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

SAVE TIME AND MONEY BY TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH!Having treated thousands of clients over more than a decade and supervised hundreds of trained physiotherapists in one of Australia's leading health care groups, few people are better positioned to give advice on physical health and wellness than International Author and Speaker Jason Smith.... 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

The Doctor Will See You Now

By: Tamer Seckin, MD

Narrated by: Paul Woodson & Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium—the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus—sheds, but does not exit a woman's body during her period. Instead, it grows outside of the uterus, spreading to organs and nerves in and around the pelvic region. The resulting pain is so physically and emotionally insufferable that it can mercilessly... Read more

The Antidote to Suffering

By: Christina Dempsey

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An indispensable guide to reducing the suffering-of patients and caregivers alike-and to improving healthcare delivery for all

In our efforts to treat patients, cure illness, and manage institutions, healthcare professionals too often overlook the fundamental purpose everyone in the industry shares: to alleviate suffering.

Press Ganey’s Chief... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Practical Hypnosis

By: Instafo & Xavier Zand

Narrated by: Instafo

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Enhance Your Everyday Life With Everyday Hypnosis
"Hypnosis." The very essence of the word conjures up an image of some theatrical individual swinging a pocket watch in front of willing participants in an attempt to get them into a trancelike state, who loses all their free will and do whatever the hypnotist commands. Nothing could be further... Read more

Your Conscious Mind

By: New Scientist

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A voyage through the mind to discover what consciousness really is, and what we can learn when it goes awry.

What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world... Read more

Dear Cancer, Love Victoria

By: Victoria Derbyshire

Narrated by: Victoria Derbyshire

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

'I can't bear not to be with these three most important people in my life. I can't bear not to be there alongside Mark as my children grow up. My bright, funny, affectionate boys who are never embarrassed to say, "love you mummy", and say it ten times day.'

Renowned as a much-loved and highly respected BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has... 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

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

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