Medicine audiobooks

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 describing... 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

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

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

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

Surviving Adolescents

By: Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

Narrated by: Richard Aspel

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Young people today enter puberty earlier than ever before and leave home later. The good news is that teenagers aren't impossible to live with, especially if parents adopt the common-sense strategies set out in this book. Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour. Surviving Adolescents is a clear and... Read more

All in the Family, Doctor Included

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

All in the Family, Doctor Included is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. Vladimir Tsesis once again brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice from his busy pediatrics practice.Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the... Read more

The Princess Bitchface Syndrome

By: Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

Narrated by: Richard Aspel

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hard-hitting book, Michael Carr-Gregg focuses on the special trials of raising adolescent girls today: what to do when your previously quiet, loving daughter becomes a restless, rebellious stranger who behaves like a responsible adult one day and a vampish brat the next. Part of the problem is that girls are becoming sexualised earlier,... Read more

What Men Don't Talk About

By: Maggie Hamilton

Narrated by: Dino Marnika & Marie-Louise Walker

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

What do men and boys long for, agonise over, aspire to? Why are men often silent in dark and difficult situations? Why do so many find it hard to express how much they care? What do they look for in women? What do they want from committed relationships, from friendships? How do they feel about kids? What motivates them? What do they worry about?... Read more

The Ghost Map

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.

From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a... Read more

Marte Y Venus En El Dormitorio - Abridged

By: John Gray

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con el libro Los Hombres son de Marte, Las Muieres son de Venus, en el primer puesto de la lista de bestsellers del New York Times el doctor John Gray ha ayudado a miles de parejas a mejorar sus relaciones, haciéndolas más amorosas y afectuosas. Ahora examina el lugar donde la buena comunicación más se necesita pero donde muchas veces falta: en... Read more

You: On a Diet - 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

The Family That Couldn't Sleep

By: D. T. Max

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter.... Read more

The Interpretation of Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud’s landmark work The Interpretation of Dreams forever changed the way we think about our dreams. It is here that Freud made many of his most important discoveries about the subconscious mind, as he explored why we dream, what we dream, and what our dreams mean. What does it symbolize when we fly in our dreams? When we fall?Freud’s... Read more

A Story of the Red Cross

By: Clara Barton

Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Clara Barton was one of those diminutive New England women of the nineteenth century who was determined to make the world a better place. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross to help the unfortunate victims of war and disaster, and served as its president from 1882 to 1904. The Red Cross of today stands as a living memorial to the... Read more

Why Do Men Have Nipples?

By: Mark Leyner & Billy Goldberg

Narrated by: Mark Leyner

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Is There a Doctor in the House?Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . . How do people in wheelchairs have sex? Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast? Can I lose my... Read more

The Memory Cure

By: Majid Fotuhi

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Credentials don't come much loftier than Fotuhi's."--Washington Post "The book is a message of hope and reassurance for laymen, especially aging members of the baby-boom generation alarmed by all the attention being paid to Alzheimer's and imagining worst-case scenarios for themselves."--Washington Times EXCITING NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE... Read more

Makam Hicaz - Abridged

By: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...

Narrated by: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer Schamanen... Read more

Makam Nihavent - Abridged

By: Gerhard H. Bujak u. R. Oruc Güvenc u. Gernot G....

Narrated by: Gerhard H. Bujak u. R. Oruc Güvenc u. Gernot G....

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer Schamanen... Read more

Makam Rast - Abridged

By: Makam Rast

Narrated by: Makam Rast

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer Schamanen... Read more

Makam Hüseyni - Abridged

By: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...

Narrated by: Gerhard H. Bujak u. Gerhard K. Tucek u. R. Oruc...

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die altorientalische Musik-Therapie ist ein seit ca. eintausend Jahren dokumentiertes, empirisch bewährtes Therapiesystem. Es ist in der Musik- und Medizingeschichte bisher einmaliges, in sich geschlossenes, praxisbezogenes musiktherapeutisches Lehrsystem. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in die Zeit musikalischer Heilzeremonien zentralasiatischer... Read more

The Art of Balance

By: Tricia Brennan

Narrated by: Tricia Brennan

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording provides meditations based on the emotional spectrum of colours. Individual colours have a different effect on your emotional state. For example, notice how you feel when you imagine a cool green, a bright red, or a dusky mauve. Your senses are directly connected to your emotions. By selecting the appropriate colour for the... Read more

Body Transformation Inside-Out

By: Tricia Brennan

Narrated by: Tricia Brennan

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you tried everything and can't lose weight? Find diet or exercise alone don't work? Hold a distorted body image? Tap into your inherent power to facilitate positive changes and alter the way you think, feel and look! Use creative visualisation to help you build your confidence and reshape your body. Body Transformation Inside-Out uses the... Read more

Looking Beyond the Mirror

By: Tricia Brennan

Narrated by: Tricia Brennan

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Looking Beyond the Mirror, Tricia gives an insider's view of what goes on beneath the façade of a select group of people who have risen above mediocrity to create extraordinary lives. Each of the twelve real-life tales conveys a message on the pitfalls of addictive behaviour, and offers a remedy for self-doubt to help the reader discover... Read more