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Westaby, Stephen.
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Westaby, Stephen.
Heart -- Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Heart -- Transplantation -- History.
Heart, Artificial -- History.
Heart surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Cardiologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Westaby, Stephen.
Westaby, Stephen.
Heart -- Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Heart -- Transplantation -- History.
Heart, Artificial -- History.
Heart surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Cardiologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Open
heart
: a
cardiac
surgeon
's
stories
of
life
and
death
on the
operating
table
/ Stephen Westaby.
by
Westaby, Stephen.
Basic Books, 2017.
Call #:
617.412 W522o
Subjects
Westaby, Stephen.
Heart
-- Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Heart
-- Transplantation -- History.
Heart
, Artificial -- History.
Heart
surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Cardiologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780465094837 (hc.)
Description:
x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
When 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. 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? Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine. He 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. An unforgettable insight into how to push back
death
, until nothing is left to do but to accept it. Stephen Westaby is a pioneer in artificial
heart
technology and serves as Consultant
Cardiac
Surgeon
at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England.
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