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Conduct Under Fire
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
Conduct Under Fire - Abridged
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
The Perricone Prescription - Abridged
By: Nicholas Perricone
Narrated by: Robb Webb
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The groundbreaking, scientifically based anti-aging program for people of all agesMany people believe that sags, bags, and wrinkles—on the face and body—are inevitable. According to award-winning research scientist and dermatologist Nicholas Perricone, M.D., they are due to inflammation at the cellular level caused by poor nutrition, pollution,... Read more
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The Acne Prescription - Abridged
By: Nicholas Perricone
Narrated by: Robb Webb
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perricone Prescription comes a powerful new weapon in the fight for clear and healthy skinLong recognized as a pioneer in reversing skin damage caused by aging, board certified dermatologist and #1 bestselling author Nicholas Perricone, M.D., now turns his scientific knowledge and experience... Read more
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Splendid Solution
By: Jeffrey Kluger
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13.
With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is one of the great tales of modern history. It begins with the birth of Jonas Salk, shortly before... Read more
Invisible Heroes
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships—or a tragedy like 9/11—all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed. Survivors become "invisible... Read more
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The Bible Cure for High Blood Pressure
By: Don Colbert
Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Listen your way to better health! You can lower your blood pressure and feel better—naturally! How hard is your heart working? In this concise easy to understand audio book you’ll discover a wealth of information to help you reduce and prevent high blood pressure. Learn biblical secrets on health and the latest medical research on how to bring... Read more
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Beating Back the Devil
By: Maryn McKenna
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES.
They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes in the middle of the night, may give them no more information than the country they are traveling to and the... Read more
Best of Bryson City Tales
By: Walt Larimore, MD
Narrated by: Walt Larimore
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"We walked out onto a side porch, with woven-seat rocking chairs strewn across it, to look out at the hills that were literally ablaze with color--reds and yellows were painted across the promontories, with amber and orange hues specked the bluffs. The spectacular view all the way to the peak of the distant Frye Mountain reminded us of why so... Read more
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Healthcare Under Duress
By: Swannee Rivers
Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In an emotional story that details one woman's struggle within a medical organization that was filled with massive illegal billing, her faith shines through. Healthcare Under Duress:An Inside look at the University of Washington Billing Scandal presents one woman's personal account and experience within a prestigious University Hospital... Read more
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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
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness - Abridged
By: Dean Edell
Narrated by: Dean Edell
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The Cure for America's Health Anxiety!Whether you're interested in advice on sex, health, arthritis, or spotting medical myths -- millions of Americans have come to revere Dr. Dean Edell for his refreshingly candid health talk on radio and television, and in the bestselling Eat, Drink and Be Merry. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness... Read more
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Super Sexual Orgasm - Abridged
By: Barbara Keesling
Narrated by: Barbara Keesling
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
It's common knowledge that the female orgasm has remained an enigma to men-and sometimes to women themselves. But now a breakthrough discovery by noted sex therapist and bestselling author Dr. Barbara Keesling has at last unlocked the mysteries of the female anatomy. In her latest book, Super Sexual Orgasm, Dr. Keesling describes a proven set of... Read more
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Scurvy
By: Stephen Bown
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of military successes, yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored. In this intriguing book, Stephen R. Brown delivers a lively recounting of how three... Read more
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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
Gifted Hands - Abridged
By: Ben Carson, M.D.
Narrated by: Ben Carson & Dion Graham
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more
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The Anatomy of Hope
By: Jerome Groopman
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
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
Mountains Beyond Mountains - Abridged
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more
Stiff
By: Mary Roach
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
For 2,000 years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory... Read more
Mountains Beyond Mountains
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more
The Story of My Father
By: Sue Miller
Narrated by: Sue Miller
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final... Read more
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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
The Pact
By: Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt & George Jenkins
Narrated by: Sampson Davis & George Jenkins
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
George Jenkins, Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt were three African American kids living in the inner city of Newark, all from broken homes, all living amid poverty, crime, and drug abuse. Two served time in juvenile detention centers. They met in high school and together they made a pact: they would support each other for as long as it would take... Read more
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Losing my Mind - Abridged
By: Thomas DeBaggio
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Tom DeBaggio turned fifty-seven in 1999, he thought he was embarking on the golden years of retirement -- time to spend with his family, his friends, and the herb garden he spent decades cultivating.
One winter day, he told his doctor during a routine exam that he had been stumbling into forgetfulness. After it subsequent battery of tests,... Read more