Medicine audiobooks

Energy Medicine

By: Jill Blakeway

Narrated by: Jill Blakeway

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive look at the groundbreaking field of energy medicine and how it can be used to diagnose and treat illness, from one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Today, more of us than ever are discovering the curative powers of energy medicine. Scientific studies continue to confirm its validity,... Read more

My Big Breast Adventure

By: Jennifer McDonald

Narrated by: Jennifer McDonald

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m sorry to say you have breast cancer – an Infiltrating Lobular Carcinoma to be exact,” said her doctor delivering the tough news right before Christmas 2013. “And there’s three ways we deal with breast cancer – cut, poison and burn.”Such was the start of Jennifer McDonald’s ‘Big Breast Adventure’, the name she gave to a series of blogs... Read more

Lyme

By: Mary Beth Pfeiffer

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the U.S. and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia.



Mary Beth Pfeiffer shows how we have... Read more

Mission-Driven Leadership

By: Mark Bertolini

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mission-Driven Leadership, Mark Bertolini, the long-time chairman and CEO of Aetna, the Fortune 500 health insurance company, reveals that genuine leadership is not about dollars and market share but about improving lives and communities.

Mark Bertolini didn't get to the corner office through traditional means. He grew up in a blue-collar... Read more

Dementia Reimagined

By: Tia Powell

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Tia Powell

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.

Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia--not to... Read more

Rewired

By: Dr. Ajay K. Seth

Narrated by: Tim Pabon

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A raccoon bite on the arm doesn’t seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis. After days of treatment for recurring infection, it becomes obvious that her arm must be amputated. Dr. Ajay Seth, the son of immigrant parents from India and a local orthopaedic surgeon in private practice, performs his... Read more

Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs

By: Michael J. Collins, MD

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing... Read more

Epidemic

By: Reid Wilson

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for the next great threat.



In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world’s first urban Ebola outbreak quickly... Read more

That Good Night

By: Sunita Puri

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Sunita Puri

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“A profound exploration of what it means for all of us to live—and to die—with dignity and purpose.” —People
 
“Visceral and lyrical.” —The Atlantic

As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine... Read more

Birth Without Fear

By: January Harshe

Narrated by: January Harshe & Cynthia Barrett

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An inclusive, non-judgmental, and empowering guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum life that puts mothersfirst, offering straightforward guidance on all the options and issues that matter most to them (and their partners) when preparing for a baby.

In Birth Without Fear, January Harshe--founder of the global online community Birth... Read more

Sound Medicine

By: Kulreet Chaudhary

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading neurologist, neuroscientist and practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine, comes a rigorous scientific investigation of the healing power of sound, showing readers how they can use it to improve their mental and physical wellbeing.Why does a baby’s cry instantaneously flood a mother’s body with a myriad of stress hormones? How can a song... Read more

Body Respect

By: Linda Bacon & Lucy Aphramor, PhD, RD

Narrated by: Celeste Oliva

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies, and fatness is not a death sentence.



You've heard it before: there's a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we're in trouble. That much is true—but the epidemic is NOT obesity. The real... Read more

Insane

By: Alisa Roth

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons.



America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police... Read more

Electronic Health Records for Dummies

By: Trenor Williams, MD & Anita Samarth

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The straight scoop on choosing and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system



Doctors, nurses, and hospital and clinic administrators are interested in learning the best ways to implement and use an electronic health records system so that they can be shared across different health care settings via a network-connected information... Read more

Everything in Its Place

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his... Read more

Jaws

By: Sandra Kahn & Paul R. Erhlich

Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be... Read more

Sound of Mind - Adventures in Schizophrenia

By: Professor Mustard

Narrated by: Professor Mustard

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Join me, in the asylum, as together we go on a very odd journey of discovery in my first mental institution experience. Enter a strange world, before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, as I compete against other game show contestants in a battle to win genetic traits for my family tree. This book offers a better understanding of mental illness... Read more

On the Surgery

By: Hippocrates & Francis Adams

Narrated by: Ellie Darvill

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hippocrates earned the title “Father of Medicine” for his extensive work in Ancient Greece. He effectively established medicine as a profession. Modern doctors still swear to uphold the ethical standards he laid out in the Hippocratic Oath. His book On the Surgery provides a fascinating look into medical history and the historical practices of... Read more

On Ulcers

By: Hippocrates & Francis Adams

Narrated by: Ellie Darvill

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Hippocrates revolutionized the study of medicine in Ancient Greece, but some of his ideas still influence the medical field today. In his book On Ulcers, Hippocrates details the recommended treatment for this ailment. While modern medicine has moved beyond using honey, boiled leaves, and white wine to treat ulcers, Hippocrates’ advice on diet... Read more

The Nocturnal Brain

By: Dr. Guy Leschziner

Narrated by: Dr. Guy Leschziner

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders.

For Dr. Guy Leschziner’s patients, there is no rest for the... Read more

The Emotion Code

By: Dr. Bradley Nelson

Narrated by: Dr. Bradley Nelson & Tony Robbins

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and includes a foreword written and read by Tony Robbins.

In this newly revised and expanded edition of The Emotion Code, renowned holistic physician and lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson skillfully lays bare the inner workings of the subconscious mind. He reveals how emotionally-charged events from your past can... Read more

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism

By: Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, Peter Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poorest people, became troubled by the decades-long rise of the influential anti-vaccine community and their inescapable narrative around childhood... Read more

The Valedictorian of Being Dead

By: Heather B. Armstrong

Narrated by: Heather B. Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as the third person ever to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain... Read more

Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring

By: Francine R. Kaufman, MD

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Being diagnosed with diabetes, no longer means giving up an active life. New technology, such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors, can help people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes stay active and flexible and maintain healthy attitudes and lifestyles.



Designed to mimic the action of the pancreas, insulin pumps are small,... Read more