Medicine audiobooks

The Healing Code

By: Alexander Loyd

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With over 1 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 29 languages, Dr. Alex Loyd's international bestselling book is a life-changing program that uses energy medicine to heal mental and physical challenges.
The Healing Code is your healing kit for life-to recover from the issues you know about, and repair the ones you don't. The book... Read more

Amazing Women in Medicine - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Narrated by: Michelle Plum, Hannah Davis & Sarah Wintermeyer

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

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The Good Nurse

By: Charles Graeber

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing basis of the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain⁠—a “stunning book...that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood”—takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left as many as 400 dead. (New York Times)    
 
Edgar Award Nomination, Mystery Writers of... Read more

The Stem Cell Hope

By: Alice Park

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark book by the senior science writer at Time magazine introduces us to a medical breakthrough that can save our lives.

Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised by using embryos. But in the last decade, stem cell research has made huge advances toward eliminating some of our most intractable... Read more

The Mindbody Prescription

By: John E. Sarno

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to relieve chronic pain for good with this life-changing New York Times bestselling book.

Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause, leaving patients desperate–and still in agonizing... Read more

Twelve Patients

By: Eric Manheimer

Narrated by: Eric Manheimer

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and highlights the complex mind-body connection.

Using the plights of twelve very different patients--from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax... Read more

Mortality

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well... Read more

The Healing Cell

By: Dr. Robin L. Smith, Tomasz Trafny & Dr. Max Gomez

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Healing Cell is an easy to read, carefully researched, and clear-eyed view of medicine many decades in the making that is now paying off with treatments that repair damaged hearts, restore sight, kill cancer, cure diabetes, heal burns, and stop the march of such degenerative diseases as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig's... Read more

The Last Best Cure

By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife... Read more

Tell Me the Truth, Doctor Unabridged DA

By: Richard Besser

Narrated by: Richard Besser

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy award winning investigative journalist and medical professional Dr. Besser separates fact from fiction in this helpful healthcare guide that smashes harmful medical misconceptions.

"Hey, Doc--Got a Minute?"

No matter where Dr. Richard Besser goes, a day doesn't go by without someone stopping him to ask that question. Often, that person is one... 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

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

Coaching for Performance

By: Sir John Whitmore

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Completely Revised 4th Edition of the 500,000 Copy Bestseller! Coaching is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being. Coaching has matured into an invaluable profession fit for our times and this fourth edition of the most widely read coaching book takes it to the next frontier. — John Whitmore Good coaching... Read more

Touching a Nerve

By: Patricia S. Churchland

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications.

What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well as... Read more

The Sports Gene

By: David Epstein

Narrated by: David Epstein

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with them from East Africa. At the same time, I began to notice that a training group on my team... Read more

Inheritance

By: Moalem MD PhD

Narrated by: Moalem MD PhD

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.

INHERITANCE

Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem's groundbreaking book shows us that the human... Read more

Cured

By: Nathalia Holt

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Is the end of HIV upon us? Award-winning research scientist and HIV fellow at the Ragon Institute, Nathalia Holt, reveals the science behind the discovery of a functional cure and what it means for the millions affected by HIV and the history of the AIDS pandemic.

Two men, known in medical journals as the Berlin Patients, revealed answers to a... Read more

Murder on the Home Front

By: Molly Lefebure

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1941. While the "war of chaos" rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below.

One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr. Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the "horrors of secretarial... Read more

The Depths

By: Jonathan Rottenberg

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly... Read more

Better

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we... Read more

Intern

By: Sandeep Jauhar

Narrated by: Sandeep Jauhar

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their... Read more

The Checklist Manifesto

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous... Read more

In the Body of the World

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Eve Ensler

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much... Read more

Blindsided

By: Richard M. Cohen

Narrated by: Richard M. Cohen & Richard Ferrone

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening NewsRichard Cohen, a veteran journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. Diagnosed with colon cancer twice in recent years, Cohen... Read more