Medicine audiobooks

Heart

By: Sandeep Jauhar

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the... Read more

The Secret Life of the Mind

By: Mariano Sigman, , PhD

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions. Drawing on research in physics,... Read more

The Man Who Couldn't Eat

By: Jon Reiner

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Reiner was happily married with two children, living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a near-fatal medical crisis that resulted in emergency surgery threatened to take his life. He was sentenced to months of intravenous feeding that required him to abstain from eating anything, in order to give his digestive tract a rest. The medical... Read more

Patient Care

By: Paul Seward, , MD

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Recalling remarkable cases-and people-from a career launched in the first days of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Paul Seward leads us in his memoir through suspenseful diagnoses and explorations of anatomy. By his side, we learn to distinguish nursemaid's elbow from a true broken arm. We learn how our breathing and swallowing mechanisms resemble a... Read more

Getting Your Brain and Body Back

By: Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Make the fullest possible recovery after neurological injury with this definitive guide



After an accident that left him permanently paralyzed over ten years ago, Dr. Bradford Berk made it his mission to help others recover from acute neurological injury (ANI). As the founder and director of the University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute,... Read more

The People's Hospital

By: Ricardo Nuila

Narrated by: Ricardo Nuila

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times

This “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?

Here, we follow the... Read more

The Soul Of Shame

By: Curt Thompson

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We're all infected with a spiritual disease. Its name is shame. Whether we realize it or not, shame affects every aspect of our personal lives and vocational endeavors. It seeks to destroy our identity in Christ, replacing it with a damaged version of ourselves that results in unhealed pain and brokenness. But God is telling a different story... Read more

COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science

By: Marc Siegel, M.D.

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From Fox News Medical Analyst and the author of False Alarm (Wiley, 2008) comes COVID and the Politics of Fear by Marc Siegel, M.D. This shocking expose of the facts as the media covers the national pandemic news and spread of the invisible virus, reinforces the notion that we must arm ourselves against fear tactics that limit our abilities to... Read more

Divine Intervention

By: Gunmolly Kodiad

Narrated by: Johnathan Welsh

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey full of pain, romance, self-sacrifice, humor and finally Catharsis. A book that touches every emotion. A story that makes you want more and more! Read more

The Official U.S. Army Survival Guide: Updated Edition

By: US Army & Rick Carlile

Narrated by: Robert Hunter

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 15 hours of life-saving survival information: the most extensive and comprehensive survival audiobook available anywhere. Created and trusted by US military forces, expertly adapted for the audiobook format. Essential preparedness for any survival situation. Listen and learn survival skills while you work, rest, or travel, and store it... Read more

Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds

By: Paul Farmer

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 22 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen,... Read more

On Call in the Arctic

By: Thomas J. Sims

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments—Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the Army... Read more

Opioid Reckoning

By: Amy C. Sullivan

Narrated by: Amy C. Sullivan

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the late 1990s. In Opioid Reckoning, Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of the crisis through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery.



By centering the voices of many people who have experienced opioid use,... Read more

The Emotional Brain

By: Joseph Ledoux

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human... Read more

My Father's Brain

By: Sandeep Jauhar

Narrated by: Sandeep Jauhar

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer’s. Sandeep Jauhar’s prose is insightful, honest, and moving about a condition that most of us will inevitably encounter in our lifetimes." —Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into... Read more

Up for the Fight

By: Bill C. Potts

Narrated by: Bill C. Potts

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The guide endorsed by MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic, and used by Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation patients.

Imagine a road map for the entire cancer journey, for both patients and their loved ones. That’s what this book is. Think What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but for navigating the... Read more

The New Abnormal

By: Aaron Kheriaty

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials. They have no intention of giving it up.In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state—the unelected technocrats who suddenly enjoyed nearly absolute power to... Read more

A Silent Fire

By: Shilpa Ravella

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A riveting investigation of inflammation―the hidden force at the heart of modern disease―and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it.Inflammation is the body’s ancestral response to its greatest threats: injury and foreign microbes. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science reveals simmering inflammation underneath the surface... Read more

Understanding the Heart

By: Stephen Hussey

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart disease is the number-one killer in the world. Despite ever-advancing medical procedures and more powerful pharmaceutical drugs, the rate of heart disease continues to rise. According to Dr. Stephen Hussey, this is due in part to misunderstandings about how the heart really functions and how to keep it healthy. These misunderstandings... Read more

The Promise of Psychedelics

By: Dr. Peter Silverstone

Narrated by: Rory Barnett

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Nearly forty years ago, Dr. Peter Silverstone was a young MD who took up a new position in psychopharmacology research at Oxford University. Since then, the field has bloomed into a spectrum of possibilities that include the use of psychedelics as a treatment for depression, addiction, PTSD, grief, and anxiety. The Promise of Psychedelics is... Read more

The Salt Fix

By: Dr. James J. DiNicolantonio

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know the dangers of sugar and salt: but the danger attributed to the second white crystal has more to do with getting too little of it, not too much. Too little salt can shift the body into semi-starvation mode, causing insulin resistance, and may even cause twice as much fat to be absorbed for every gram that's consumed. Too little salt... Read more

Dr. Sonia's Guide to Navigating Pelvic Pain

By: Sonia Bahlani, MD

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The key to feeling good "down there" is understanding causes and solutions—there is relief from pelvic pain.



One in fifteen people report experiencing chronic pelvic pain, while many more suffer in silence. It's time to put aside the stigmatization and misdiagnosis! Dr. Sonia Bahlani has helped thousands of patients reclaim their lives at her New... Read more

The Native American Herbalist's Bible 9 Books in 1

By: Green Witch

Narrated by: Shawntay Feals

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Are you ready for encountering the world's most effective form of medicine, becoming a skilled herbalist and building your first home-based herb lab?Long before Europeans arrived in America, generations of Native American’s learned the secrets of natural healing and were able to use the power of plants to maintain good health, create explosive... Read more

The Book on Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Career Development Planning

By: Brian Mahoney

Narrated by: Katie Johnson & Brian Mahoney

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

End Money Worries!The Book on Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Career Development PlanningJob Hunting Change Interview Questions Preparation & Coaching Guide for Adults & Young TeensWritten Brian Mahoney Narrated by Brian Mahoney & Katie Johnson       Discover... * How to Become a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer      * What is the... Read more