Medicine audiobooks

Doctor's Notes

By: Dr Rosemary Leonard

Narrated by: Kirsty Besterman

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

'I'm in the wrong job,' I said to our practice nurse, 'I should definitely have been a detective.'

For BBC Breakfast's Dr Rosemary Leonard, a day in her GP's surgery is full of unexplained ailments and mysteries to be solved.

From questions of paternity to apparently drug-resistant symptoms, these mysteries can sometimes take a while to get to the... Read more

Extreme Medicine

By: Kevin Fong, MD

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world's environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it... Read more

BE HEALTHY - Selbstheilung & Schmerzlinderung

By: Katja Schütz

Narrated by: Barbara Gassner & Carmen Molinar

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieses Hörbuch aktiviert Ihre Selbstheilungskräfte und hilft Ihnen dabei Ihre mentale Kraft optimal auszuschöpfen, um körperlich und seelisch gesund zu sein. Kommen Sie in Einklang mit sich selbst und lindern Sie Ihre Schmerzen. Durch Mentaltraining, Hypnose, Farbtherapie und Zielvisualisierung können Sie sich von Ihren Beschwerden auf... Read more

BE HEALTHY - Gesundheit, Tiefenregeneration & Zellerneuerung durch mentale Heilung

By: Katja Schütz

Narrated by: Barbara Gassner & Carmen Molinar

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Wissenschaft belegt zweifelsfrei dass die innere Einstellung eine direkte Auswirkung auf unsere Genesung hat. Begeben Sie sich in eine heilsame Atmosphäre und erleben Sie Tiefenregeneration und Zellerneuerung auf allen Ebenen. Durch Achtsamkeit und Konzentration können Sie ganzheitliche Heilung erfahren. Durch eine neu gewonnene innere... Read more

The Art Of True Forgiveness

By: Doc Orman MD

Narrated by: Matt Stone

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to live a happier, healthier, and more peaceful life, this book is for you!

The truth is life isn't easy. And anyone who says it is doesn't know what they're talking about. Sometimes we get beat up, bruised and knocked down by other people in our lives, physically, emotionally, spiritually or otherwise. The truth is we all get hurt in... Read more

Further Confessions of a GP

By: Benjamin Daniels

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions. Benjamin Daniels is back. He may be older, wiser and more experienced, but his patients are no less outrageous. Drawing on his time working as a medical student, a locum, and a general... Read more

For the Benefit of Those Who See

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Narrated by: Rosemary Mahoney

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.

Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to... Read more

Healthy at Home

By: Tieraona Low Dog

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At a time when taking charge of your own health care is all the more essential, respected doctor and Andrew Weil proteg├®e Tieraona Low Dog advises on the art and science of healing at home. In this follow-up to Life Is Your Best Medicine, get the how, when, and why of getting better and staying well with homemade remedies that the doctor... Read more

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me

By: David Stuart MacLean

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there. This is what happened to David MacLean.In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity.Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so... Read more

A Short Guide to a Long Life

By: David B. Agus

Narrated by: David B. Agus

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.

In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from his work as a pioneering cancer doctor, revealing the... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."

In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the... Read more

One Doctor

By: Brendan Reilly, MD

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri­can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physi­cian. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustra­tions, Reilly must deal with several daunting challenges... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the... Read more

My Age of Anxiety

By: Scott Stossel

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition
 
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness.... Read more

Things I've Learned from Dying

By: David R. Dow

Narrated by: David R. Dow

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist David R. Dow confronts the reality of his work on death row when his father-in-law is diagnosed with lethal melanoma, his beloved Doberman becomes fatally ill, and his young son begins to comprehend the implications of mortality.
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with... Read more

Phantoms in the Brain

By: Sandra Blakeslee & V. S. Ramachandran

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments—using such low-tech tools such as cotton swabs, glasses of water, and... Read more

Coming to Our Senses - Abridged

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Come to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness and physical and spiritual wellbeing.

"[The] journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they actually mattered . . ." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the... Read more

Heart

By: Dick Cheney & Jonathan Reiner

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Edward Herrmann & Jonathan Reiner

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.

For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and... Read more

League of Denial

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Steve Fainaru

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “meticulously documented and endlessly chilling” (The New York Times) exploration of the NFL’s decades-long attempt to deny and cover up mounting evidence connecting football and brain damage.

“A first-rate piece of reporting [that] adds crucial detail, texture, and news to the concussion story, which despite the... Read more

Sisters of the East End

By: Helen Batten

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A second’s silence and then an almighty scream. It was the most moving thing I had ever seen … A baby, a real live baby, another human life had entered the world. It didn’t seem possible and yet I had witnessed it with my very own eyes.’

Born into a happy working-class North London family in the mid-twentieth century, Katie is determined to ‘do... Read more

Seeking Heaven - Abridged

By: Eben Alexander

Narrated by: Eben Alexander

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestseller Proof of Heaven has already touched millions of lives, turning skeptics into believers in the existence of a universal dimension characterized by peace, acceptance, and unconditional love that is accessible to all of us.

In the closing pages of Proof of Heaven, Dr. Alexander writes that working with guided audio programs has... Read more

Knocking on Heaven's Door

By: Katy Butler

Narrated by: Katy Butler

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become” (Abraham Verghese, The New York Times Book Review).

This bestselling memoir—hailed a “triumph” by The New York Times—ponders the “Good Death” and the forces within medicine that stand in its... Read more

The New Bible Cure for Weight Loss

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The natural way to lasting weight loss!

Reclaim control over your spiritual, emotional, and physical health, and lose weight today. Incorporating the latest medical findings with the timeless wisdom of the Bible, The New Bible Cure for Weight Loss provides powerful tools and findings that your own doctor never may have told you, including…

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Silent Witnesses

By: Nigel McCrery

Narrated by: William Gaminara

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.

The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us.

Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation and... Read more