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Open heart : a cardiac surgeon's stories of life and death on the operating table / Stephen Westaby.
Author
Westaby, Stephen
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
©2017
Description
x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RD598 .W47 2017
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Subject(s)
Heart
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Surgery
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Anecdotes
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Heart surgeons
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United States
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Biography
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Heart
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Surgery
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Westaby, Stephen
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Personal narratives
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Anecdotes
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Summary note
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.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
The ether dome
Humble beginnings
Lord Brock's boots
Township boy
The girl with no name
The man with two hearts
Saving Julie's heart
The black banana
Domino heart
Life on a battery
Anna's story
Mr. Clark
Adrenaline rush
Despair
Double jeopardy
Your life in their hands.
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ISBN
9780465094837 ((hardcover))
046509483X ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016058151
OCLC
958798479
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