Medicine audiobooks

Hi, Anxiety

By: Kat Kinsman

Narrated by: Kat Kinsman

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.Feeling anxious? Can’t sleep because your brain won’t stop recycling thoughts? Unable to make a decision because you're too afraid you’ll... Read more

Bellevue

By: David Oshinsky

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.

Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts,... Read more

Wunder wirken Wunder

By: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Medizinisch. Magisch. Menschlich. Warum wirken Placebos, auch wenn man nicht an sie glaubt? Wann sind Klangschalen besser als Kortison? Wirkt Akupunktur sicherer mit Sicherheitsnadeln? Mit viel Humor entkrampft Hirschhausen den Streit zwischen Schul- und Alternativmedizin und zeigt, was jeder für sich tun, aber vor allem auch lassen kann. Eckart... Read more

The Sun Still Shines

By: Jodi Orgill Brown

Narrated by: Jodi Orgill Brown

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In her award-winning candid and witty memoir, Jodi Orgill Brown recounts how her life was transformed when, as a thirty-three-year-old wife and mother, she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Unwilling to accept her fate, Jodi's family searches for help to fight against the odds. But the very surgery that could save her life thrusts... Read more

A Double Dose of Dilaudid

By: Kerry Hamm

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to a small-town Emergency Room in rural Ohio. While it's true our ER doesn't see the stabbing and gunshot action ERs see in inner cities, we have no shortage of the sad, the scary, the painful, and the just plain dumb.

With more than twenty stories, things ER workers want to say to patients, and Emergency Room bingo, A Double Dose of... Read more

Suggestible You

By: Erik Vance

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain,... Read more

What Have We Done

By: David Wood

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize-¬?winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars.

Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood... Read more

Human Heart, Cosmic Heart

By: Dr. Thomas Cowan

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

While serving with the Peace Corps in Swaziland, Thomas Cowan encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price - two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the way medicine was-and continues to be-practiced in the United States, Cowan returned from... Read more

Mindful Birthing

By: Nancy Bardacke

Narrated by: Nancy Bardacke & Donna Postel

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time,... Read more

The Distracted Mind

By: Larry D. Rosen & Adam Gazzaley

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Distracted Mind leading psychologist Larry Rosen, and pioneering neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, explain why our minds have become addicted to email, text messages, virtual worlds and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Through compelling true stories and scientific research, they show how digital distractions affect every aspect of... Read more

Sometimes Brilliant

By: Larry Brilliant

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human history. His story, of what happens when... Read more

A Life Everlasting

By: Sarah Gray

Narrated by: Sarah Gray

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A donor mother’s powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science whodunit, taking us inside the world of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation and cutting-edge scientific research.When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with anencephaly, a terminal condition, she... Read more

The Late Bloomer

By: Ken Baker

Narrated by: Ken Baker

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone.

On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for... Read more

The Thyroid Connection

By: Amy Myers

Narrated by: Hilary Bogert

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Autoimmune Solution, a comprehensive, accessible overview of thyroid problems that will help you learn to identify the warning signs and finally take back your health.

Are you exhausted all the time, plagued by brain fog, and unable to lose weight? Do you struggle with insomnia, panic attacks,... Read more

Menopause Confidential

By: Tara Allmen

Narrated by: Tara Allmen

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating the hormonal changes and health issues women experience in midlife and beyond, from one of the leading medical experts in the field.The physical changes that occur after women turn forty are unavoidable—and can be unnerving. Menopause affects every aspect of life—from sex and sleep to mood... Read more

Miracles We Have Seen

By: Harley A. Rotbart, MD

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne & Angela Brazil

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book of miracles—medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from... Read more

Juniper

By: Thomas French & Kelley French

Narrated by: Kelley French & Thomas French

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists.

Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly... Read more

Your Health, Your Decisions

By: Robert Alan McNutt

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician’s decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions,... Read more

When the Air Hits Your Brain

By: Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients... Read more

ADHD Nation

By: Alan Schwarz

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—and how its unchecked growth has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society. “ADHD Nation should be required reading” (The New York Times Book Review).

More than one in... Read more

Our Country Nurse

By: Sarah Beeson

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

All seems tranquil as newly qualified Health Visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She’s barely out of the car when she’s called to assist the midwife with a bride who’s gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin… As a health visitor... Read more

Critical Care

By: Theresa Brown

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In her former career as an English professor, Theresa Brown had been shielded from the harsh reality of death. That all changed the day she decided to become an oncology nurse. In Critical Care, Theresa writes powerfully
and honestly about her first year on the hospital floor. With great compassion and a disarming sense of humor, she shares the... Read more

*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

Patient H.M.

By: Luke Dittrich

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless pursuit of knowledge.

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson... Read more