YOU: On A Diet Revised Edition - Abridged
By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
As they did with the revised edition of YOU: The Owner’s Manual, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz have updated their classic, international bestseller on diet. This nearly three million copy seller is filled with new information on emotional eating, the latest fad diets, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and over a hundred recipes.
For the first time in our... Read more
Frozen
By: Scott Baldyga & Larry Johnson
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research facility pushing the limits of modern biotech. But as he gained the trust of his eccentric coworkers and was promoted to acting COO, Larry was thrust into a nightmare world of scandalous... Read more
View audiobookThe Secret History of the War on Cancer
By: Devra Davis
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 19 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The war on cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease—but it has left untouched many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the global environment. Evidence of how these things affect our chances of getting cancer has been either overlooked or suppressed. And this has been no accident. The... Read more
View audiobookThe Fatal Strain
By: Alan Sipress
Narrated by: George K. Wilson
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
When avian flu began spreading across Asia in the early 2000s, it reawakened fears that had lain dormant for nearly a century. During the outbreak's deadliest years, Alan Sipress chased the virus as it infiltrated remote jungle villages and teeming cities and saw its mysteries elude the world's top scientists. In The Fatal Strain, Sipress... Read more
View audiobookBorneo Clinic's unique payment system
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
An environmentally friendly health clinic on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo that offers patients living in extreme poverty access to affordable health care. Read more
View audiobookWeekends at Bellevue
By: Julie Holland
Narrated by: Julie Holland
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For her, it was just another day at the office...In... Read more
View audiobookStrength in What Remains
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains... Read more
View audiobookThe Magnificent Obsession
By: Anne Graham Lotz
Narrated by: Anne Graham Lotz
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
If you or someone close to you is devoted to their church but still struggles to find meaning and passion in their faith; who loves their family, works hard, contributes to their community, but still feels life is somehow incomplete and hollow at the core; who is restless in spirit, with a nagging sense that there must be something more . .... Read more
View audiobookEvery Patient Tells A Story
By: Lisa Sanders
Narrated by: Lisa Sanders
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
"The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as... Read more
The Doors of Perception
By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it... Read more
View audiobookCompartments
By: Steven R. Feldman
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The modern world is thoroughly compartmentalized. The separation of people into different groups causes conflict and misunderstanding. National award winning physician Dr. Steven Feldman uncovers strange behaviors and hidden truths in Compartments. Learn why some doctors appear clueless and uncaring to their peers. Explore why different groups... Read more
View audiobookBirth Day - Abridged
By: Mark Sloan
Narrated by: Mark Sloan
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school.” So began Mark Sloan’s three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand... Read more
View audiobookTending Lives
By: Echo Heron
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made... Read more
View audiobookThe Mozart Effect - Abridged
By: Don Campbell
Narrated by: Don Campbell
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Anyone who has ever seen a two-year-old start bouncing to a beat knows that music speaks to us on a very deep level. But it took celebrated teacher and music visionary Don Campbell to show us just how deep, with his landmark book The Mozart Effect.Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect has a simple but life-changing... Read more
View audiobookHappiness for Dummies - Abridged
By: W. Doyle Gentry
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Now, you can find the happiness you want and live ""the good life"" you deserve by applying the helpful information in Happiness For Dummies, the ultimate guide to achieving bliss! You'll discover proven techniques for living a meaningful, healthy, and productive life no matter what your life circumstances happen to be. Positive concepts and... Read more
View audiobookYOU: Being Beautiful - Abridged
By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz bust the myths and stereotypes about the way we view ourselves -- and how we define beauty.
Most people think that beauty revolves around such things as lipstick, sweet eyes, or skinny jeans -- all those things that we can see (and obsess over) in the mirror. But the fact is... Read more
Vivir con diabetes
By: Juan Jose Murillo Moreno
Narrated by: George Bass
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
La educacion sanitaria y la actitud del paciente diabetico constituyen una parte esencial del tratamiento de esta enfermedad. Es, por ello, sumamente importante que las personas diabeticas conozcan, con fundamento y veracidad, que es la diabetes y cual es su tratamiento, pero tambien que es lo que esta en su mano hacer para afrontarla y para... Read more
View audiobookAgainst Medical Advice
By: James Patterson & Hal Friedman
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this inspiring true story, a child struggles with Tourette's syndrome-and overcomes extraordinary challenges with the help of his loving parents.
Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary... 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
View audiobookHealth Care Reform Now!
By: George Halvorson
Narrated by: John J. Nance
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system. In this book George Halvorson... Read more
View audiobookIce Bound
By: Jerri Nielsen
Narrated by: Jerri Nielsen
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her... Read more
View audiobookTo Die Well
By: Joseph Glenmullen & Sidney Wanzer
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
While every one of us hopes "to die well," this may not be possible without knowing our rights about care at the end of life. How can futile medical treatment be stopped? When might death be hastened? How can each of us retain control of these decisions? The information in To Die Well is both comforting and empowering. Knowing our rights to... Read more
View audiobookPhysiologische Psychologie: Neuropsychologie des Gedächtnisses - Abridged
By: Hans Joachim Markowitsch
Narrated by: Hans Joachim Markowitsch
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Das Gedächtnis wird definiert und seine Bedeutung evolutionsgeschichtlich begründet: Es existieren mehrere Gedächtnissysteme, die weitgehend unabhängig voneinander arbeiten und deswegen auch selektiv gestört sein können. Zustandsabhängigkeit und Dynamik von Informationsaufnahme und -abruf werden erläutert. Inwieweit menschliches Gedächtnis sich... Read more
View audiobookPhysiologische Psychologie: Wie viel Gedächtnisverlust verträgt das Alter? - Abridged
By: Hans Joachim Markowitsch
Narrated by: Hans Joachim Markowitsch
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Gedächtnis und andere kognitive Funktionen nehmen mit zunehmendem Lebensalter ab. Erklärt wird, welche Gedächtnisbereiche hiervon besonders betroffen sind, warum Erinnerungen nur selten verloren gehen, man aber trotzdem Probleme hat, an sie heranzukommen und was "altersübliches" Vergessen von "leichten kognitiven Störungen" unterscheidet, die in... Read more
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