Medicine audiobooks

The 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

Borneo 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

Weekends 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

The 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

Strength 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

Every 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 Idea Generator and The Idea Accelerator

By: Dr Ken Hudson

Narrated by: Catherine Milte

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Idea Genearator Ideas are the lifeblood of any business. But have you ever been stuck for one? If you have, then The Idea Generator is for you. It outlines sixty effective and practical tools to help you find inspiration and create big, new concepts. Each tool is simple to use and includes hints on how and when to use it for best results.... Read more

50 Things You Can Do Today to Manage Insomnia

By: Wendy Green

Narrated by: Tess Mawle

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Good quality sleep is vital for well-being, yet one in ten adults in the UK experience sleep problems at some point in their lives, affecting mood and general health. Are you one of them?

• Discover how your night-time routine can aid restful sleep
• Make your bedroom conducive to sleep
• Choose beneficial foods and supplements 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

Compartments

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

Trauma Stewardship

By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness... Read more

Birth 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

Tending Lives

By: Echo Heron

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Echo Heron served for eighteen years as a critical care nurse. In this book, she relates the true and riveting stories of nurses staff whose every-day experiences in the front line of medicine will inspire the listener. “Heron gives a voice to her fellow nurses (a savvy, wisecracking, take-no-guff voice) and turns them into real people.”... Read more

The 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

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

Hurry Up and Meditate

By: David Michie

Narrated by: Nicholas Bell

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

If meditation was available in capsule form, it would be the biggest selling drug of all time. It has been scientifically proven to deliver highly effective stress relief, boost our immune systems and dramatically slow the ageing process. It has also been shown to make us much happier and more effective thinkers. Given all the physical 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