Medicine audiobooks

The Traumatized Brain

By: Vani Rao, MBBS, MD & Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event, affecting an individual's lifestyle, ability to work, relationships—even personality. Whatever caused it—car crash, work accident, sports injury, domestic violence, combat—a severe blow to the head results in acute and, often, lasting symptoms. People with brain injury benefit from... Read more

The Sleeping Beauties

By: Suzanne O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Suzanne O'Sullivan

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a conta­gion. In the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during... Read more

Fighting for Recovery

By: Phyllis Vine

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activism

This definitive people’s history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental... Read more

The Business of Botanicals

By: Ann Armbrecht

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating and provocative investigation into the global business of herbal supplements and products—asking whether it delivers on its healing promise to consumers, suppliers, and the environment. Using herbal medicines to heal the body is an ancient practice, but in the twenty-first century, it is also a worldwide industry: In 2019,... Read more

Autophagy

By: Helena Campbell

Narrated by: Betty Johnston

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleanse Your Body and Mind, and Lose Weight with Autophagy and Intermittent Fasting!Losing weight, or preventing weight gain are two things the majority of people on the planet have had trouble with, at some point in their lives. We work hard and live fast, and finding time to eat properly and exercise can be challenging.But what if losing... Read more

The Doctor Is Burned Out

By: Jeff Moody, MD

Narrated by: Arthur Rowan

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you frustrated, fed up and fatigued? Most doctors are.Dr. Jeff Moody was. The demands of being a doctor combined with the pressure to perform regardless of any issues—or risk losing his medical license—left Dr. Moody feeling trapped, hopeless, and powerless. When he stopped to consider why he was feeling such despair, he realized the truth:... Read more

HOLDING ON TO HOPE

By: Nicole Yeates

Narrated by: Kieren Calland Metts

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From a probability of death or life in a vegetative state after a severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Nicole used a negative prognosis as a powerful motivator to build a successful career as a Rehabilitation Counsellor. She is a living testament to how the strategies outlined in this book can work for you.Has a brain injury thrown your life into a... Read more

Intermittent Fasting for Women (2 books in 1)

By: Helena Campbell

Narrated by: Betty Johnston & Sharon Plummer

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Burn Fat, Reverse the Aging Process and Improve Your Health With Autophagy and the Intermittent Fasting Diet!Losing weight, or preventing weight gain are two things the majority of people on the planet have had trouble with.But what if losing weight and improving your physical health doesn’t have to be a time-consuming, tedious process?What if... Read more

Intermittent Fasting for Women

By: Helena Campbell

Narrated by: Sharon Plummer

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Lose Weight, Slow Down the Aging Process and Improve Your Health With the Intermittent Fasting Diet!If you've consulted the Internet during the last couple of years to find out how to lose weight, you've probably heard about the Intermittent Fasting method.The Intermittent Fasting diet actually allows you to eat bigger amounts of food than most... Read more

Weight Loss Surgery

By: Lari Brunelli

Narrated by: Aida-Maria Boiesan

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Are You Considering Getting a Weight Loss Surgery Done, But Are Worried About Keeping the Weight Off Afterwards?Then this audiobook is for you. Inside you'll learn different weight loss options everything from surgeries to diets that will help you to get rid of the weight and keep it off for good. Too many people get expensive weight loss... Read more

Vaccination Trepidation

By: Char Knight Dennis

Narrated by: Charmaine Knight Dennis & Kevin J. Dennis

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Vaccination Trepidation is a book discussion segment of the My Style Live Podcast, highlighting a feature with Dr. Kevin Dennis, MD PharmD, by host Char Knight Dennis. Dennis started the podcast in 2020, selecting a new episode, usually a current trending topic, for viewers to listen, watch and discuss each month.  Read more

All Our Relations

By: Tanya Talaga

Narrated by: Tanya Talaga

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work
Finalist, 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
Finalist, 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among... Read more

In-Between Days

By: Teva Harrison

Narrated by: Teva Harrison

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease.... Read more

Doctors Get Cancer Too

By: Philippa Kaye

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's cancer." Dr Philippa Kaye was 39 years old when she heard those dreaded words. The diagnosis of bowel cancer would change her life and mean crossing the divide from being a doctor to being a patient. She soon discovered that her years of training and experience had not prepared her for the realities of actually living with cancer. Doctors... Read more

Viruses

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction, Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures, Crawford demonstrates... Read more

Gone

By: Linda K. Olson

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationing in Germany, a train hit their van, shattering their lives—and Linda's body. When Linda saw Dave for the first time after losing her right arm and both of her legs, she told him she would understand... Read more

The Science of Animal Welfare

By: Marian Stamp Dawkins

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What is animal welfare? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically. It defines animal welfare as "health and animals having what they want," a definition that can be easily understood by scientists and non-scientists alike, expresses in simple... Read more

Corporatizing American Health Care

By: Robert W. Derlet

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours. This shift has created a massive and at times redundant workforce that frustrates patients, as well as physicians, nurses, and administrative... Read more

Exhale

By: David Weill, M.D.

Narrated by: David Weill, M.D.

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives—until it was time to step back and reassess his own life.

A young father with a rare form of lung cancer who has been turned down for a transplant by several hospitals. A kid who was considered not “smart enough” to be worthy... Read more

The Plague Year

By: Lawrence Wright

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it

"A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew... Read more

Head First

By: Alastair Santhouse

Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley & Alastair Santhouse

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Lori Gottlieb and Henry Marsh, a distinguished psychiatrist examines his own practice.
 

Alastair Santhouse knew something was wrong the night he was on call during his medical training and got the news that a woman on the way to the ER had died in the ambulance. That meant he could go back to sleep! But he couldn't. He was... Read more

The Night the Lights Went Out

By: Drew Magary

Narrated by: Drew Magary, Cassandra Campbell, Joseph Castill...

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury—from the acclaimed author of The Hike

“Drew Magary has produced a remarkable account of his journey, one that is filled with terror, tenderness, beauty, and grace.”—David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower... Read more

The Making of a Cowboy Doctor

By: Kyle Ver Steeg MD

Narrated by: Todd Ethridge

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a true story about a doctor who, as a young man, developed a fierce independence. His goals became not only to become the best doctor he could be but to be his own boss. It's also the story of a healthcare system that became hostile to that independence, such that to continue as an independent doctor became riskier over time. This is my... Read more

You Bet Your Life

By: Paul A Offit

Narrated by: James Noel Hoban

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for today
 
Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the... Read more