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A veteran Oxford heart surgeon imparts the hard-won lessons of a life lived on the brink, sharing the stories of remarkable cases from his career while revealing why heart procedures have never become routine.
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Subjects
Heart, Surgery, Heart surgeons, Biography, Anecdotes, Cardiology, Heart, surgery, Surgeons, biography, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Cardiologists, Cœur, Chirurgie, Chirurgiens cardiaques, Biographies, MEDICAL, GeneralPeople
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Open heart: a cardiac surgeon's stories of life and death on the operating table
2017, Basic Books
in English
046509483X 9780465094837
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Page 1
1.
The Ether Dome
Page 7
2.
Humble Beginnings
Page 17
3.
Lord Brock's Boots
Page 27
4.
Township Boy
Page 37
5.
The Girl with No Name
Page 51
6.
The Man with Two Hearts
Page 75
7.
Saving Julie's Heart
Page 97
8.
The Black Banana
Page 115
9.
Domino Heart
Page 135
10.
Life on a Battery
Page 153
11.
Anna's Story
Page 173
12.
Mr. Clarke
Page 193
13.
Adrenaline Rush
Page 201
14.
Despair
Page 217
15.
Double Jeopardy
Page 229
16.
Your Life in Their Hands
Page 243
Epilogue
Page 257
Acknowledgments
Page 263
Glossary
Page 269
Index
Page 277
Edition Notes
Includes index.
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