Medicine audiobooks

Science in High Resolution 4 of 6 The Humble Aspirin (lecture)

By: Classics Reborn Audio Publishing

Narrated by: Nina Salzar & Others

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Expand your horizons with this lecture on science. Experience acedemic lectures inside the form of an audiobook. 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

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

A Stitch of Time

By: Lauren Marks

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Marks was twenty-seven when an aneurysm ruptured in her brain and left her fighting for her life. She woke up in a hospital soon after with serious deficiencies to her reading, speaking, and writing abilities, and an unfamiliar diagnosis: aphasia. This would be shocking news for anyone, but Lauren was a voracious reader, an actress,... Read more

A Path Out of Poverty

By: Paul Farmer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
—Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist

World-renowned physician and public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer has long been devoted to caring and advocating for the world's... Read more

Mind Over Meds

By: Andrew Weil

Narrated by: Andrew Weil

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives.

Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past 50 years, and over-the-counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take to treat serious illnesses, we take drugs to help us... Read more

Confessions of a Surgeon

By: Paul A. Ruggieri, MD

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and... 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

Mister B

By: A. Lynn Byk & Joseph Byk

Narrated by: Sarah Jane Wightman

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When a chauffeur-cook on the verge of financial ruin decides to help a 98-year-old rocket scientist by moving into his home, he decides to teach her a few life lessons. Together, they discover why they each still matter. "A wonderful book, brimming with humor and spirituality. The characters are lovingly drawn and Byk provides her readers with a... Read more

Mirror Touch

By: Joel Salinas

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A doctor with a rare—seemingly superhuman—neurological trait takes us on a compelling tour deep into the human brain in this blend of memoir and scientific exploration that combines the compassionate wisdom of Oliver Sacks and the personal revelations of Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight.Dr. Joel Salinas is a Harvard-trained researcher... Read more

Your Pregnancy, Your Way

By: Allison Hill

Narrated by: Alicyn Packard

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As an OB/GYN, Dr. Allison Hill has delivered thousands of babies; as a mom, she's given birth to her own two children. Hill has a unique perspective on the many questions moms have surrounding pregnancy and childbirth—especially when it comes to "going natural." Drawing on her twenty years of expertise as well as current medical data, she weighs... Read more

Drug Dealer, MD

By: Anna Lembke, MD

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that... Read more

Notes on Steven Kotler's & et al Stealing Fire by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Sam Scholl

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steven Kotler's & et al Stealing Fire and NOT the original book.
Preview:
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work (2017) by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal is a book about ecstasis. The word ecstasis names a heightened mental state... Read more

An American Sickness

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 

"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene  

At a moment of drastic... 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

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

Head Strong

By: Dave Asprey

Narrated by: Dave Asprey & Rob Shapiro

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower—in two weeks or less.For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover the latest, most innovative methods for making humans... 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

Mercies in Disguise

By: Gina Kolata

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw. The phone rings; the doctor has the results. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested. But she had to find... Read more

Deadliest Enemy

By: Mark Olshaker & Michael T. Osterholm

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.

Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period... Read more

The Family Gene

By: Joselin Linder

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Joselin Linder was in her twenties, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it, until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of—her father’s.Joselin compared the... Read more

Younger

By: Sara Szal Gottfried

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet shows every woman how to create a lifestyle that will help her look great, feel energized, and slow down the effects of aging.Feel destined for cellulite, saddle bags, and belly fat? Does your family come from a long line of Alzheimer's, cancer, or heart... Read more

Autism: A Family's Journey

By: Michael Terrill

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you feel if your two-year-old child was diagnosed as autistic and mentally retarded? That he would go into his room and never come out, and would be institutionalized by age seventeen? This was the grim life sentence handed down to Lori and Jim Cairns regarding their son, JR. This diagnosis was made in 1996 - when little was known... Read more