Medicine audiobooks

Reo Sentimental - Abridged

By: Rosa María Cifuentes Castañeda

Narrated by: Rosa María Cifuentes Castañeda

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La decisión de no mostrar los sentimientos por miedo al rechazo o por el ego, y el deseo de conquistar de modo recurrente son constantes en las formas de amar en estos tiempos, cuando se elige dominar al otro. Mientras en otros existe un apasionamiento obsesivo y febril por alcanzar fundirse con un ser que no sabe amar ni le interesa aprender,... Read more

Antiestrés - Abridged

By: David Gourion

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lo que hizo Allan Carr para dejar de fumar lo hace el doctor Gourion con el estrés: un método simple y motivacional, con soluciones rápidas e infalibles para dejar de estresarse. Este libro es una forma rápida y sencilla de aprender a manejar el estrés. Hoy en día, el sufrimiento y las enfermedades relacionadas con el estrés son una auténtica... Read more

YOU: The Owner's Manual - Abridged

By: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Narrated by: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.With new health studies and advice bombarding us every day, few people know much about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout the miraculous system that is the human anatomy.YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works... Read more

Altenpflege mit Herz - Abridged

By: Sascha Sandhorst

Narrated by: Armin Dallapiccola

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Pflege von Menschen, die auf diese angewiesen sind, ist einer der wichtigsten Dienstleistungsbereiche in unserer Gesellschaft, da die Familien heutzutage kaum mehr in der Lage sind, dies für ihre betroffenen Angehörigen zu leisten. Umso wichtiger zu wissen, dass diejenigen, die sich um einen selbst oder die lieben Verwandten kümmern, dies... Read more

Estrés, sufrimiento y felicidad - Abridged

By: Daniel López Rosetti

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La idea fuerza de este libro parte de una frase de Buda: "El dolor es inevitable pero el sufrimiento es optativo". Para transformar el sufrimiento en bienestar, Daniel López Rosetti propone gestionar la realidad a través de la sociabilización, a la que llama "modo sociable", en lugar de "modo lucha". De manera clara y precisa describe el sistema... Read more

El día que Dios entró al banco - Abridged

By: Juan Diego Gómez Gómez

Narrated by: Gonzalo Rojas

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta no es la historia de un rico que regala lo que tiene y se dedica a la oración; es la historia de una persona que aumenta su riqueza, siendo cada vez más espiritual. Luego de sus bestsellers, Hábitos de ricos (2016), Menos miedos, más riquezas (2017) e Ideas millonarias (2018), Juan Diego Gómez nos sorprende con una revolucionaria... Read more

EINSICHT in UNerhörtes - Abridged

By: Dr. Manfred Nelting

Narrated by: Claude-Oliver Rudolph

Length: 22 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die meisten Kinder in Deutschland wachsen in Liebe auf, aber sehr viele erleben schutzlos eine lieblose, traumatisierende Kindheit in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß, darüber ein Schleier des Schweigens, unerhört! Es ist ein Verrat an Kindern - emotional, digital, sozial und politisch - mit gravierenden Auswirkungen auf ihre Gesundheit, kreatives... Read more

Complications - Abridged

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: William David Griffith

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.

Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized... Read more

Under the Collar: Frank Conversations about Healing that Harms - Abridged

By: Ade Adewusi & Lee Hernandez

Narrated by: Ade Adewusi & Lee Hernandez

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Diving straight to the core of the analytical memoir, Under the Collar: Frank Conversations about Healing that Harms, Simply Speaking is an audiobook abridgement.The narrated articles turn those problematic interactions, goofs and outright carelessness worsening healthcare into blunt snippets of cause-and-effect.Simply Speaking still follows the... Read more

Crashing Through - Abridged

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Robert Kurson and Michael May

In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.

Mike May spent his... Read more

Bleeding Fabulous - Abridged

By: Mark Ward

Narrated by: Seb Carrington

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of how a boy came to be infected with blood borne viruses, and in spite of multiple death sentences, lived to become the world's first ever LGBTQ+ Ambassador for Haemophilia. 'Faced daily with my own mortality, I chose to live fabulously—each of my fifty-five years has been full of love, laughter, adventure… and feather boas.' Mark... Read more

The Anatomy of Hope - Abridged

By: Jerome Groopman

Narrated by: Jerome Groopman

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
the course of illness

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

The... Read more

Kommunizieren in der Pflege - Abridged

By: Sandra Mantz

Narrated by: Sandra Mantz

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pflegen ohne zu kommunizieren ist schlicht unmöglich. Der tägliche Dialog, unzählige Alltagsgespräche und Begegnungen im Pflegekontext sind für alle Beteiligten eine hohe Anforderung. Zeit und Personal sind knapp, die Arbeitsdichte ist hoch. Gespräche führen, den situativen Dialog lenken, das richtige Wort zur richtigen Zeit finden, dies... Read more

El sistema inmunitario por fin sale del armario - Abridged

By: Sari Arponen

Narrated by: Lola Sans

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vive una vida plena, larga y saludable de la mano de la autora de ¡Es la microbiota, idiota!  «Sari Arponen no sólo destaca por su extensa formación profesional, sino por mantener dos de las cualidades más difíciles de encontrar en estos tiempos: la honestidad y la valentía.» Dra. Miriam Al Abid, ginecóloga y obstetra, escritora y... 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

Kaplan MCAT Biochemistry Audio Review - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Owen Farcy, Elizabeth Flagge, Tamara Miller, Am...

Length: 26 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Get 27 hours of lessons and conversations on MCAT biochemistry from a full panel of Kaplan's MCAT experts, with a 150-page downloadable workbook to follow along as you listen.

From the makers of the #1 MCAT course, Kaplan's MCAT Biochemistry Audio Review is designed to fit into times when you couldn't otherwise study—whether you're on the road,... Read more

Wunder-Bundle - Abridged

By: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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 Melatonin Miracle - Abridged

By: Walter Pierpaoli

Narrated by: William Regelson & Walter Pierpaoli

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A revolutionary medical breakthrough suggests that aging is actually a preventable disease, and two key scientists at the center of this groundbreaking research are now going public for the first time.
For centuries scientists have labored to identify and reverse the cause of aging, and now that effort has converged on one gland, one hormone, and... Read more

YOU: The Owner's Manual - Abridged

By: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Narrated by: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.With new health studies and advice bombarding us every day, few people know much about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout the miraculous system that is the human anatomy.YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works... Read more

Birth Day - Abridged

By: Mark Sloan

Narrated by: Mark Sloan

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school.” So began Mark Sloan’s three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand... Read more

Cannabis - Abridged

By: Peter Cremer-Schaeffer

Narrated by: Bernd Gnann

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fluch oder Segen? Für die einen ist Cannabis eine harmlose Droge, für andere der Einstieg in eine zerstörerische Sucht. Doch die Wirkstoffe dieser Pflanze können auch als Medizin schwer kranken Menschen helfen, und ein neues Gesetz erlaubt es nun allen Ärzten, Cannabis-Arzneimittel zu verschreiben. Was dies genau bedeutet, wird in diesem Hörbuch... Read more

Der entwurzelte Mensch - Abridged

By: Prof. Dr. med. Gustav Dobos

Narrated by: Günter Schoßböck

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Covid-19 hat es wieder einmal gezeigt: Unser Lebensstil entscheidet darüber, ob wir Krisen bewältigen können, eigene Ressourcen entdecken, aktivieren und nachhaltig handlungsfähig bleiben. Das gilt für unsere psychische Gesundheit genauso wie für den Organismus: Übergewicht, Diabetes und andere lebensstilbedingte Probleme zeigten sich als... Read more

An Unquiet Mind - Abridged

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison... Read more

Moleküle, die Geschichte schrieben - Abridged

By: Andreas S. Ziegler

Narrated by: Bernd Gnann, Frank Streichfuss & Kathrin Hildeb...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Spannende Wissenschaft Anhand von 25 ausgewählten Wirkstoffen lässt dieses Hörbuch faszinierende Stern- und Schicksalsstunden der Arzneimittelforschung lebendig werden und führt vor Augen, auf welch abenteuerlichen Wegen viele Wirkstoffe vom Labor ans Krankenbett gelangten. Begeben Sie sich auf eine spannende Entdeckungsreise zu den Wurzeln der... Read more