Medicine audiobooks

Happiness 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

YOU: 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

Against 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

Health 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

Ice 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

To Die Well

By: Sidney Wanzer & Joseph Glenmullen

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 refuse... Read more

Physiologische 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

Physiologische 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

Hay una respuesta

By: Luis Cortes

Narrated by: George Bass

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El VIH y el SIDA son temas que asustan. No solo pueden destruir un cuerpo, sino que tambien pueden destruir una familia, las amistades y hasta una comunidad. A nadie le gusta hablar de eso, pero ignorar el problema no hara que este desaparezca. La unica manera en que podremos superar esta enfermedad es a traves de la educacion, la precaucion y... Read more

My Stroke of Insight

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment.

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not... Read more

Tatort Gehirn - Abridged

By: Hans Joachim Markowitsch

Narrated by: Hans Joachim Markowitsch

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Warum werden manche Menschen zu Verbrechern während andere ihr Leben lang brave Bürger bleiben? Sind Verbrecher schuldig für ihre Taten im klassischen Sinn, indem sie nämlich anders (normgerecht) hätten handeln können, oder sind Straftäter durch ihre Gene, ihre Lebensentwicklung und ihre Hirnorganisation determiniert, so zu handeln, wie sie es... Read more

Dein Gehirn bist Du! - Abridged

By: Manfred Spitzer

Narrated by: Manfred Spitzer

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Universum unseres Gehirns mit seinen Abermilliarden Nervenzellen, Synapsen und Verbindungen entdeckt sich selbst Schritt für Schritt. Waren früher die Sinneseindrücke wie Sehen und Hören Ziel der Forschung, sind es heute die komplexen Emotionen wie Vertrauen, Angst, Liebe oder Schadenfreude. Was unterscheidet das Gehirn von einem... Read more

The Uncertain Art

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories illustrating the vagaries of medical practice over the years. Among the fascinating and probing questions that Nuland investigates are:



—What does the first Hippocratic Oath really mean?



—What happens when knowledge comes before we're ready for... Read more

Hospital

By: Julie Salamon

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a new state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that determine what kind of medical care people receive in this country, bestselling author Julie Salamon spent one year tracking the progess of the center and getting to... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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