Medicine audiobooks

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

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

Extreme Measures

By: Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD

Narrated by: Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level


In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.

Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in... 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

Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember

By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

 A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author’s viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year’s Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world—quite literally—upside down. By New Year’s Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the... Read more

Hot Lights, Cold Steel

By: Michael J. Collins, MD

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins's success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow... 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

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

By: Danielle Ofri, MD

Narrated by: Ann M. Richardson

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?

Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly... Read more

Know This

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Dan John Miller

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 175 of the world’s most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future.Scientific developments radically alter our understanding of the world. Whether it’s... Read more

The Perpetual Now

By: Michael D. Lemonick

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has... Read more

The Vaccine Race

By: Meredith Wadman

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times

“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—Nature 

The... Read more

Ich selbst - Dein Weg zu einem selbstbewussten & liebevollen Leben

By: Jürgen Kopeczek

Narrated by: Jürgen Kopeczek

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Diese hochwirksame meditative Hypnoseaufnahme bietet Ihnen die Möglichkeit, im eigenen geschützten Raum zu entspannen und nach einiger Übung in einen tranceähnlichen Zustand zu gelangen. In diesem Zustand wird Ihr Unterbewusstsein sehr empfänglich für die Aufnahme positiver lebensbejahender Suggestionen. Die tägliche Anwendung fördert eine... 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 Cancer Whisperer

By: Sophie Sabbage

Narrated by: Sophie Sabbage

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The self-published sensation and UK bestseller that has helped thousands touched by cancer.

“I have cancer. Cancer does not have me.”

Sophie Sabbage was forty-eight years old, happily married, and mother to a four-year-old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Since that shocking diagnosis, she has been on a remarkable... Read more

The Next Pandemic

By: Dr. Ali S Khan & William Patrick

Narrated by: Ben Sullivan

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.
Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but... Read more

The Drug Hunters

By: Donald R. Kirsch, Ph.D. & Ogi Ogas, Ph.D.

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity—by chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found... Read more

The China Study, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Here is the updated and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives.The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell University,... Read more

The Vaccine-Friendly Plan

By: Paul Thomas, MD & Jennifer Margulis, PhD

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, Paul Thomas, MD, presents his proven approach to building immunity: a new protocol that limits a child's exposure to aluminum, mercury, and other neurotoxins while building overall good health. Based on the results from his pediatric practice of more than eleven thousand children, as well as data from other credible... Read more

River of Time

By: Naomi Judd

Narrated by: Naomi Judd & Carolyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi Judd's life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a childhood of harsh family secrets, the death of a young sibling, and absent emotional support, Naomi found herself reluctantly married and an expectant mother at age seventeen. Four years later, she... Read more

The Elephant Man

By: Sir Frederick Treves

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, GCVO, CH, CB (1853 – 1923) was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, best known for his friendship with Joseph Merrick, "the Elephant Man".

"The Elephant Man" is Treves' own first-hand account of how he met and befriended Joseph Merrick (whom he mistakenly calls John Merrick), a young... Read more

Medical volunteers risk their lives to save Mosul's injured

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On the front lines of Mosul, Iraq, two young American volunteers aid those injured in battle. Pete Reed and Derek Coleman treat Iraqi soldiers and civilians right in the path of fire, far closer than other medical providers. Without their proximity to the fighting, many more wounded would die. But their location also means they are at enormous... Read more

The New Fat Flush Plan

By: Ann Louise Gittleman

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

WHAT’S NEW ABOUT THE NEW FAT FLUSH PLAN?

For over 25 years, Fat Flush has helped millions of people lose weight, harness the healing powers of foods, reignite metabolism, fight cellulite, and restore the liver and gallbladder while improving their lives. Now, for the first time since its original publication, the acclaimed New York Times... Read more

New Choices in Natural Healing for Dogs & Cats

By: Amy Shojai

Narrated by: Amy Shojai

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

CLEAN LIVING FOR PETS! 
You want it for yourself--and that extends to your furry family members, to ensure a longer, happier and healthier quality of life. From the author who brought you THE FIRST-AID COMPANION FOR DOGS AND CATS, award-winning pet journalist and certified animal behavior consultant Amy Shojai presents this audiobook edition of... Read more

How To Live With Lupus

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: Eva R. Marienchild

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to know how to cope-up and live with lupus, then checkout this "How To Diagnose Lupus" guide.In this step-by-step guide you will understand the disease, the person having such disease and adopt to the situation.- Determine the types of Lupus.- Distinguish its signs and symptoms.- Learn how Lupus can be treated.- Learn how to manage... Read more