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Blind Eye - Abridged
By: James B. Stewart
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prize–winning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.
No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired—in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota—Michael... 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
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Bad Blood - Abridged
By: Judith Reitman
Narrated by: Stephen Yankee
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In a shocking exposé of the American Red Cross, award-winning journalist Judith Reitman rips the veil of secrecy off the world's largest humanitarian charity. In 1984 triplet girls born three months prematurely received life-saving blood transfusions. A year later their parents learned that their donor had the AIDS virus. After years of... Read more
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Tell Me Where It Hurts
By: Nick Trout
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
It all begins at 2:47 a.m. Then over one twenty-four-hour period, Dr. Trout fights for the life of a ten-year-old German shepherd, battles disease in the operating room, unravels tricky diagnoses, reassures frantic pet parents, and reflects on the humor, heartache, and inspiration in his life as an animal surgeon. And he wants to take you along... Read more
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A Short History of Medicine
By: F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank GonzAlez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine, beginning with the most primitive healthcare practices and ending with the technology of modern medicine that we enjoy today. As with all Modern Library Chronicles, A Short History of Medicine is a wonderful primer for anyone... Read more
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
By: David Shields
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an... Read more
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Strong at the Broken Places
By: Richard M. Cohen
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In an extension of his New York Times bestselling book Blindsided, author Richard M. Cohen depicts one year in the lives of five individuals who are living with serious chronic illness and of their families. These "citizens of sickness," as Cohen calls them, were selected for the diversity of their ages, races, socioeconomic positions, illness... Read more
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Why Mars and Venus Collide
By: John Gray
Narrated by: John Gray
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians functioned in separate worlds. But in today's hectic and career-oriented environment, relationships have become a lot more complicated, and men and women are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress. To add to the increasing tension, most men and women are also completely unaware that they are actually... Read more
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The Head Trip
By: Jeff Warren
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us—and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately and yet understands scarcely at all. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its... Read more
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The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up
By: Rich Blake
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a helping hand, Donny fell into a vegetative state... Read more
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A Life Decoded
By: J. Craig Venter
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 16 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life-and-death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. After pursuing... Read more
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My Lobotomy
By: Howard Dully & Charles Fleming
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve.
Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered.
"In 1960," he writes, "I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick'... Read more
You: Staying Young - Abridged
By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Personal Development
Now substantially updated with a groundbreaking new introduction on telomeres, bioidentical hormones, and more, Drs. Oz and Roizen—the bestselling coauthors of the blockbuster YOU series—present a new edition of their #1 New York Times bestselling indispensable guide to maintaining vibrant... Read more
Switching Time
By: Richard Baer
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in order to survive, created seventeen different versions of herself.
In 1989, Karen Overhill walked into the office of psychiatrist Richard Baer... Read more
Body of Work
By: Christine Montross
Narrated by: Renée Raudman
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open.
Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless-steel tables... Read more
Rethinking Thin
By: Gina Kolata
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals.
Rethinking Thin is at once an account of the place of diets in American society and a provocative critique of... Read more
Crashing Through
By: Robert Kurson
Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.
Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s... 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
How Doctors Think
By: Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments—or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient... Read more
The Next Better Place
By: Michael C. Keith
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Next Better Place explores the thin line between wanderlust and compulsion, between running away and arriving, and leaves us with the understanding that the journey is often more powerful than the destination. Read more
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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
On Call in Hell
By: Thomas Hayden & Richard Jadick
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting memoir from the Navy doctor praised as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of Newsweek.
Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. At thirty-eight, the last place the Navy doctor was expected to be was on the front lines. He was too old to be called up, but not too old to volunteer. In... Read more
Survival of the Sickest
By: Sharon Moalem & Jonathan Prince
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on—or off?Survival of the Sickest reveals the answers to... Read more
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Final Exam
By: Pauline Chen
Narrated by: Pauline W. Chen
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she didn't count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her training, as she struggles to reconcile a shared humanity with her patients and to separate ideals about healing from a fierce desire to cure. Chen's... Read more
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