Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01K3WN59M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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A breathtaking personal account of a renown surgeon Daniel Surgeons are not those kind of people, who have their own hearts open as often as they do that to others. Stephen Westaby account of a lifetime of a career is a good one for even those far in the field of management - learning how organization, wits and. Five Stars Tara Fussell Eye opening. Well written.. Helen D said A heart surgeon's reflections on his patients and career.. I thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Westaby’s memoir Open Heart, A Cardiac Surgeon’s Story of Life and Death on the Operating Table. This book is a collection of stories about his patients who he helped over the years with cardiac surgery. He was a
Westaby recounts the fraught and alarming stories from his operating room: we meet a pulseless man who lives with an electric heart pump, an expecting mother who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets a transplanted heart-only to die once it's in place. With astonishing compassion and candor, Dr. One of the world's leading heart surgeons shares the hard-won lessons of a life lived where failure and death are just a heartbeat awayWhen Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during an open heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment was a crucial survival strategy. For readers of Atul Gawande and of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Open Heart offers unforgettable insight into how to push back death, until nothing is left to do but to accept it.. In a profession where failure is literally a heartbeat away and the cost of that failure is death, how else could he live with the consequences of his performance? In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become rout
"A cracking example of a thriving sub-genre of autobiography, the medical memoir. Anyone who enjoyed the 2014 bestseller Do No Harm by the brain surgeon Henry Marsh, a friend of Westaby's, will relish this book, too Each story is gripping, written in a vivid, almost brutal way that matches the blood and gore of cardiac surgery."